News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Frustration, anger, sadness and fatigue were among the descriptions a group of UWM students used for how they were feeling about the recent unrest around racial and social justice happening in Milwaukee and across the nation.
Tamicah Gelting, a clinical assistant professor in the UWM College of Health Sciences and a doctoral student in UWM’s Zilber School of Public Health, was named to a newly formed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force at the American Occupational Therapy Association.
The enduring impact of racism in Milwaukee and across the nation is the topic of a virtual panel discussion among UWM students, second in a series of events called UWM’s Campus Dialogue on Racial Justice.
The LIGO-Virgo Collaboration recently discovered an object denser than neutron stars and less dense than black holes. So what does that mean? One of the UWM researchers explains.
Widespread lockdowns during the pandemic have altered many behaviors. Two UWM scholars are launching a study to see how teens’ social media habits have been altered when it comes to mental health information.
A research team led by Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu has a received a $2 million federal grant for a project that will support increasing access to medical forensic care and training to help mainstream health care providers and victim advocates deliver culturally sensitive services.
Woo-Jin Chang will investigate the effectiveness of an “electric filter” to quickly extract the viruses that cause COVID-19 in as little as one minute from a saliva or blood sample.
The five-year, $24.4 million grant will allow the institute to continue accelerating the translation of research discoveries into patient care, bringing new therapies and interventions to patients, improving health outcomes and building training programs and community engagement.
Researchers in UWM’s Department of Physics have recently been awarded special funding that will allow them to probe different aspects of SARS-coV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, using molecular imaging techniques.
MILWAUKEE_Native American women experience sexual assault more than any other ethnic group, but often they don’t get the medical examinations needed to collect the forensic evidence that would help prosecute their assailants. That’s because they live too far from a clinic or are distrustful of the exams and the criminal complaint process. A research team […]
