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UWM glassblower practices an ancient art to support modern research

By Sarah VickeryJanuary 13, 2022Science & Technology

Neal Korfhage is one of perhaps 10 university glassblowers in the country, repairing and creating important tools for chemists, physicists and biologists.

History alum forges cultural connections at Luxembourg museum

By Sarah VickeryDecember 3, 2021Campus & CommunityAlumni

The repository of Luxembourg American history is located, curiously enough, in Belgium, a small town 35 miles north of Milwaukee.

Anthropology field school teaches students how to unearth the past

By Sarah VickeryNovember 15, 2021Campus & CommunityStudents

UWM students spent six weeks unearthing a Wisconsin site where the Oneota lived some 1,000 years ago. It’s a chance to both practice science and learn how to be archaeologists.

Journalism grad travels the country to bridge political rifts

By Sarah VickeryNovember 2, 2020Business & World AffairsPolitics & Social Science

Emily Topczewski’s “We the Voters” project takes her across the country, talking to people in towns small and large, red and blue, about what most concerns them.

Exploring the hidden politics of cookbooks

By Sarah VickeryOctober 29, 2020Arts & HumanitiesHumanities

That shelf of cookbooks in your kitchen might actually be a library of political declarations in disguise. In fact, said UWM political science professor Kennan Ferguson, even a collection recipes from church friends makes a political statement about in-groups and community identity.

Building a better briquette: Conservation students study charcoal production in Kenya

By Sarah VickerySeptember 30, 2020Science & TechnologyScience

In Kenya, a country where one in four people lacks access to electricity, charcoal is a staple fuel source. It’s light, small, easy to store, burns longer and hotter than wood, and is nearly smokeless. It’s also speeding up the country’s deforestation.

Zoom troubles: Communication students study online group conflicts

By Sarah VickeryAugust 31, 2020Business & World AffairsBusiness

As the world rushed online to virtual meeting spaces during the coronavirus pandemic, two UWM graduate students began to wonder: How do group conflicts manifest online versus in person? How should group leaders manage those problems?

History alum helps tell the story of racism at America’s Black Holocaust Museum

By Sarah VickeryAugust 18, 2020Arts & HumanitiesHumanities

UWM alumna Mia Phifer is helping the museum navigate the challenges of operating a museum amid a pandemic and the national conversation about racial justice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.

Public history project aims to document pandemic in real time

By Sarah VickeryJune 5, 2020Arts & HumanitiesHumanities

Chris Cantwell and his UWM history students are building the COVID-19 MKE archive, an online repository that is documenting history as it’s happening, collecting submission from metro Milwaukee giving glimpses of life in quarantine.

McNair scholar explores how volunteering can harm

By Sarah VickeryFebruary 24, 2020Business & World AffairsPolitics & Social Science

People who travel to developing nations to try to do good oftentimes have the opposite effect, according to research by UWM international studies major Emily Crain-Castle.

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