News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Kelben Foundation, a family foundation established by Mary and Ted Kellner, is giving $5 million in support of the UW-Milwaukee School of Education, the Lubar Center for Entrepreneurship, and the Lubar School of Business. This gift will establish an endowed chair in educational psychology. Nadya Fouad, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of […]
Experiments led by a team of physicists from UW-Milwaukee, including Professor Marius Schmidt, are featured in the paper, “Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein,” reported May 5 in “Science” magazine. The experiments took place at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and were the result of a large collaboration of UWM researchers and 11 […]
Several UW-Milwaukee faculty members recently received good news about grant funding for projects. Theatre Professor Anne Basting’s TimeSlips, a nonprofit that brings creativity into care relationships, received an NEA ArtWorks grant to share the stories and imaginations of people across Wisconsin. The grant will support live performance and visual/sound installations inspired by stories created by […]
Andrew Petto, senior lecturer in the UWM Department of Biological Sciences, received a Friend of Darwin Award from the National Center for Science Education. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to advancing the teaching of evolution and climate science. A pioneer in evolution literacy, Petto helped advance education standards in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and helped local […]
César Ferreira, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, was inducted into the Orden de los Descubridores (Order of Discoverers) by Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, during a Ceremony May 6 in Greene Hall. The honor is conferred for “outstanding service in the fields of Hispanic scholarship, the teaching of Spanish, and the […]
Aaron Buseh, College of Nursing, was appointed to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. Originally from Liberia, West Africa, Buseh completed graduate training in nursing and public health and has more than 15 years of experience in nursing and public health sciences. Kevin McLeod, Mathematical Sciences, was honored […]
UWM researchers are among those being honored for the detection of gravitational waves in space, a discovery announced earlier this year. The international group of more than 1,000 contributing scientists and engineers won the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Founded by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Yuri and Julia […]
More than 250 UWM students from across disciplines presented results of their research on April 29 at the annual symposium sponsored by the UWM Office of Undergraduate Research. The projects included oral and poster presentations – and even a dance performance – on topics as diverse as the AIDS virus in green monkeys, tiny houses […]
UWM researchers used a groundbreaking experiment to observe molecular changes with unprecedented detail and speed.
With its goal of helping children who have faced significant adversity, a new collaboration between UWM and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin sits at the nexus of research, practice and policy.
