Improving our understanding of the Holocaust
UWM alum Tony Rodriguez works with educators to help them improve the way they teach about the Holocaust.
Sarah Vickery
Japanese internment echoes through history prof’s ‘Someday, Chicago’ show
Jasmine Alinder hopes that audiences will not only appreciate the images but also ask themselves an important question: What does it mean to be American?
Alum’s art graces the halls of Milwaukee Bucks’ Fiserv Forum
The new arena in downtown Milwaukee isn’t just a place for concerts and basketball games. It’s also something of an art gallery, with works from local artists filling the walls, including works by UWM alum Eric Oates.
Alum’s horticulture job isn’t all roses – it’s education, too
For Ben Habanek, a 2013 grad of UWM and village horticulturalist for Shorewood, the most gratifying part of his job is seeing someone enjoy a little bit of the nature he brought to Wisconsin’s most densely population municipality.
Compost collaboration seeks to help Milwaukee’s food waste and farms
The Compost Project, which involved UWM researchers, is exploring composting in Wisconsin’s biggest city. Funded by a USDA grant, the project seeks to answer the question, can composting be a viable industry in Milwaukee?
UWM botany alum funds Field Station fellowships
Researchers at the UWM Field Station are about to get support from a $250,000 fund founded by a UWM Botany alum. The James and Dorathea Levenson Endowment for Ecology and Field Biology was established earlier this year and will provide fellowships to UWM graduate students who are conducting research at the Field Station or in […]
With help from NASA, students launch experiment into space
The UWM team sent plasmids up on a rocket to discover how cosmic radiation affects DNA. The results were surprising.
Downer Woods a key part of space agencies’ research project
A proposal from Alison Donnelly, associate professor of geography at UWM, was chosen from among hundreds submitted. Observations in Downer Woods will help calibrate observations by satellites, improving further research on the climate.
The intersection of science, religion and politics
American voters who are both religious and scientifically literate don’t fit today’s political narrative, making their decisions hard to predict.