Fun games, Serious Play: Gaming group spreads analysis via Twitch
A collection of UWM faculty and students is using their own Twitch channel to explore the academic side of video and board games.
Research
Protecting children using data science
Colleen Janczewski combs through the records of 7,000 children referred to the state’s Child Protective Services to identify the families most in need of help.
Fatherly love
Emmanuel Ngui explores the role fathers can play in reducing infant mortality and improving maternal and child health.
Researchers explore whether living wage laws affect health
Cities across the nation passed “living wage” laws aimed at raising the minimum wage for the working poor. But it’s unknown if those laws have improved the health of affected workers and their families.
As US diversifies, few women of color found on company boards of directors
America is becoming increasingly diverse, but the boards of directors of large companies aren’t keeping up, UWM researcher Maria Goranova found.
The battle against fake news
Maria Haigh and Wonchan Choi are developing better ways to spot and expose bogus news by exploring fact-checking methods in the United States, Korea and Ukraine.
Telling the histories of local churches
Students and faculty record the stories of Milwaukee congregations on a new website.
Harvesting a garden from the past
Performance artist Portia Cobb tells the story of freed slaves who lived on one of South Carolina’s Sea Islands.
Researchers zero in on type of cancer that killed John McCain
UWM chemist Shama Mirza admits that luck was on the side of researchers when they discovered a compound that slows the growth of an aggressive cancer, glioblastoma, in animal testing.
What’s in a species? Biologist helps determine wolf taxonomy
Emily Latch, associate professor of biological sciences at UWM, is giving the U.S. government a hand as it tries to figure out which wolves should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.