UWM alum helps inmates deliver healthy babies
As many as one in 10 female inmates enter prison pregnant. Cara Kreuziger educates and supports them to ensure their children have healthy starts.
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Student researcher explores effect of parents’ criticism
Parental criticism can lead to an overvalued sense of responsibility — a key feature of obsessive compulsive disorder — student researcher Haley Branback found.
UWM biologist leads county’s first-ever wildlife survey
UWM field biologist Gary Casper’s work will be used to determine how pollution and development have affected wildlife in urbanized Milwaukee County, and will help guide efforts to restore habitats.
UWM grad helps craft latest American Girl doll, Melody Ellison
In developing a backstory that tells the tale of the civil rights movement, Mark Speltz drew on things he learned from UWM history professor Amanda Seligman.
UWM anthropologist looks inside global seed vault
Anthropologist Tracy Heatherington is studying the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, an international repository that safeguards seeds against war and natural disasters that could lead to famine.
Geosciences student hikes for professor’s legacy
UWM alum James Amato hiked 500 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail to raise money for a scholarship honoring one of his favorite professors, the late Thomas Hooyer.
English prof helps “unexpected writers”
Poor writing costs companies time and money. UWM’s Dave Clark has a solution — software that will guide “unexpected writers” in producing reports and other documents.
Anthropologists uncover Wisconsin’s past
The Cultural Resource Management Program at UWM carefully picks up the pieces when construction projects dig into forgotten city cemeteries or mass graves.
Your poem is ready
English professor and novelist Liam Callanan’s Eat Local::Read Local supports the humanities and local businesses by distributing original, printed poems to restaurants.
First Latino U.S. poet laureate coming to UWM
U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will read from his collection at UWM on Thursday, March 3.