Presented by David Witzling, UWM Peck School of the Arts. In the present moment, “truth” is becoming an increasingly contested term. Between fake news, UFO disclosure, and popular deep fakes, generative AI will play an increasingly prominent role in complicating …
Presented by Robert J. Schneider, Ph.D., Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Urban Planning, UWM. US pedestrian fatalities increased by 51% between 2010 and 2020 (4,302 to 6,516 fatalities per year), and nearly all of the additional pedestrian fatalities that occurred …
Neil Horsky -- an artist and an adjunct instructor at UWM and at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design -- will talk about his work as an arts journalist at an independent newspaper, The Boston Compass, and how audience demographics …
Presented by Brett Ketter, UWM Geosciences. Life hands you different choices and those choices can lead you to either flounder and fail or to adapt and flourish. According to Brett Ketter, that is his career path in a nutshell. With …
Presented by Dr. Michael Pauers, UWM College of General Studies. Modern taxonomic practice demands that precise information about the location where a new species was found (the “type locality”) be included in the description of new species. Unfortunately, especially for …
Exhibit, American Geographical Society Library Mapping the stars as they rotate through the night sky is an ancient art practiced by people all over the world. The ways people talk about space change over time thanks to scientific discoveries, but …
The Underground Railroad was a network of routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to freedom in the 19th century. Estimates vary wildly about how many people escaped slavery using the Underground Railroad – anywhere from 20,000 …
Dr. Sharity Bassett, visiting assistant professor of Women & Gender Studies and manager of the American Indian Student Center, presents a UWM Academic Adventurers talk, "Mapping Land History: Collaborating with the Oglala Lakota Nation on Land Research," on Friday, March …
Presented by Dr. Alison Donnelly, Associate Professor, UWM Dept. of Geography. Dr. Donnelly will discuss the importance of monitoring shrubs and trees in Downer Woods to understand how climate change will impact temperate deciduous forests in general. She monitors the …
Presented by Dr. Gerlinde Höbel, associate professor in the Biological Sciences department at UWM. Dr. Höbel’s research deals with adaptations to communicate in complex and dynamic environments (such as a frog chorus), and with the effects of social interactions on communication …