The COVID-19 pandemic has made it a dangerous time to go the movies – but then, there has always been danger at the movies, said Jocelyn Szczepaniak- Gillece. From gang bombings to mass shooters to pandemics, violence has often spilled …
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is an associate professor and the chair of the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, but it’s her teaching outside of UWM that just landed her a $10,000 grant. Mitchell-Walthour is a member of a group of Black …
The Budapest Semester in Mathematics program brings American and Canadian college students to Hungary for a semester of study under Hungarian mathematics instructors hailing from the country’s top universities. Taught in English, the classes are rigorous and cover statistics, logic, …
Increasing average pay for truck drivers by about 6% might entice them to stay longer in an occupation that historically has had high turnover, while also saving trucking companies money, a study says. The promise of higher paytypically helps to …
The Star Wars movies are a major force in popular culture, spanning eleven motion pictures and dozens of associated television shows, books, comics, and other media.
If you wanted to look for life on planets around stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets, you would first locate the ones in the “Goldilocks zone.” That’s the area – not too close, not too far – at …
Students taking Chinese and Japanese classes at UWM are getting a little extra help this year, thanks to the generosity of a linguistically-gifted alum.
Concrete is a universal building material, but it’s prone to wear, tear, and cracking over time.
When she grows up, Shannon Siebers wants to be a professional book hoarder.
“That’s what librarians are,” she said with a laugh. “We’re nerds. We love talking about books.”
