News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Anne Basting has made her career by melding diverse disciplines in unexpected ways. This video showcases TimeSlips, the seemingly magical program Anne created that brings those with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia into the world of improvisation, “replacing the pressure to remember with the freedom to imagine.” Basting is a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, the first UWM […]
From John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman to Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Joe Biden, check out the presidents and politicians who visited UW-Milwaukee since 1959. Most recently, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders met on the Helen Bader Concert Hall stage for the PBS NewsHour Democratic candidates debate and Donald Trump taped a town […]
With the recent detection of gravitational waves — and the way they are documented, scientists can now hear invisible events in the cosmos. Here, listen to what the collision of two black holes sounds like. Patrick Brady, director of the Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, explains.
