News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Get ready to skip to the good part! Congratulations, Class of 2022, and thanks for showing us how to graduate. #uwmgrad Thank you to our cast of graduates and guests, in order of appearance: Mark Mone, UW-Milwaukee chancellor Pounce, mascot MacKenzie Kressin, BFA Film Deng Xiong, BFA Film Roshan Tariq, BS Information Science & Technology […]
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee celebrated the Class of 2021 with a virtual commencement on May 16, 2021. The ceremony included a keynote address by UWM alum Darian Dixon, a spacecraft operations engineer for the Mars Perseverance rover, as well as remarks by UWM Chancellor Mark A. Mone, student speakers and the conferral of more than […]
UWM alum Darian Dixon, a spacecraft operations engineer for the Mars Perseverance rover, shares his story of growing up in Milwaukee, not too far from UWM. Dixon recalls sitting in a small bedroom with almost every inch of the walls covered with glow-in-the-dark stars and planets; now he actually works among the stars and planets. […]
TV show “Project Pitch It” is presented by UW-Milwaukee’s Lubar Entrepreneurship Center in 2021. Each week, entrepreneurs pitch their businesses or products to business moguls Joanne Sabir, Peg Ann, David Gruber and Jerry Jendusa. Every entrepreneur receives one of three awards. The Jendusa Lubar Entrepreneurship Center Award offers workshops, programming and support services including investment […]
Ava Udvadia, UWM associate professor of biological sciences, discusses her research into how some animals, such as fish, can regenerate their nerve cells, something that humans can’t do. She also talks about how student researchers are a vital part of her work. Udvadia has been named by the University of Wisconsin System as one of […]
After retiring from the military with full disability, Kimberly Stuart lost her sense of purpose. But her volunteer efforts with military nonprofits led her to UWM’s Nonprofit Management and Leadership program, and that made all the difference. “It not only changed my life, it literally saved my life,” she said. She’s now chairman and CEO […]
Exoskeleton robotics are wearable frameworks that cover the surface of limbs and help debilitated patients regain much of their former abilities by using technology that essentially communicates with muscles when the brain cannot. Two of the most promising devices designed by Mohammad “Habib” Rahman, an assistant professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering at UWM, are […]
A guitar concert in his homeland of Cuba inspired then 9-year-old Rene Izquierdo’s passion for music. Today, Izquierdo is a world-renowned classical guitarist and recording artist who has played hundreds of concerts around the globe. The UWM Peck School of the Arts associate professor also created and built the school’s classical guitar department into one […]
Asthma ranks third among the reasons why children younger than 15 are hospitalized, and it accounts for millions of missed school days every year. Although the disease has no cure, it’s manageable with proper treatment and preventive measures. Those measures include educating caregivers about common airborne triggers for allergic asthma. Anne Dressel, an assistant professor […]
Little by little, task by task, Dakota Crowell is finding ways to make the world a better place. Surveys suggest that at UWM, as at other universities, up to half of students don’t have enough food at some point during their time in college. Crowell decided to do something about it, by helping create a […]
