UWM nursing professor receives Fulbright award to support work in health equity

MILWAUKEE _ Heidi Luft of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to the Dominican Republic in the field of nursing and public health. Luft will conduct research and teach a course at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo as part of a project to build capacity for collaborative research on […]

Landmark study of adolescent brain development renews for seven years

The National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $290 million of new funding to research institutions around the country, including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, to continue the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. The funding extends the project, the largest long-term study of brain development and child health ever conducted in the United States, for […]