News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE _ There’s lots of ground to cover in the the 2018 midterm elections, from flipping seats and voter suppression to a high stakes, nationally relevant race for Wisconsin governor. Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are available to discuss various dimensions of the 2018 midterm elections and post-election analysis. The Media Services team at […]
It’s officially awards season at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. On Friday, Oct. 12, 24 remarkable UWM alumni and one corporate partner will be honored during an awards ceremony at Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel.
UWM researchers work toward cure for Alzheimer’s disease
MILWAUKEE _ One of the best places in America to study filmmaking is the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. That’s the takeaway from a survey of industry insiders published by The Hollywood Reporter. The news comes as the Peck School’s Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres adds a new bachelor of fine arts degree […]
The Hollywood Reporter ranks the program 24th best in the nation. The recognition comes as the film program adds a bachelor’s degree in animation and as its documentary program moves to a downtown satellite location.
MILWAUKEE _ Alice Yan has been funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Pipeline-to-Proposal Award to support a project focused on eliminating disparities in survival rates among young African-American women. The yearlong project, “Let’s Talk: Engaging Community Stakeholders for Patient-Driven Research to Eliminate Cancer Disparities for Young African American Breast Cancer Survivors,” will conduct […]
MILWAUKEE _ Michael Zimmer, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies and director of the Center for Information Policy Research, will participate in a four year study of the ethics of “big data,” funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation The project, PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational […]
The College of Nursing held its first white coat ceremony for nursing majors on Monday, Aug. 28. White coat ceremonies are the traditional introduction to students of health care professions entering their “clinicals,” or training with patients. This inaugural white coat ceremony also included current nursing majors, who had never been recognized in this fashion. […]
The honor recognizes the professors’ “outstanding research record and the international impact of his or her work in the field.” The additions bring to 33 the number of distinguished professors at UWM.
Six UW-Milwaukee student journalists have won six first place regional Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence awards, and advance to the 2017 Excellence in Journalism competition in Anaheim, Calif. Seven more UWM journalism stories were finalists in the regional competition, which encompasses Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The award winning stories appeared in the student news […]