Facebook or phone call? Family dynamics might decide
Families are relying on technology more and more to keep in touch, but family dynamics play a role in choosing which technologies they use for communicating.
Research
Companies get greener with student power
UWM’s Industrial Assessment Center is the only center of its kind in Wisconsin and the largest of the 24 funded nationwide.
Exploring movement and the mind
UWM professors of dance and kinesiology are studying the 100-year-old Alexander Technique to learn how increased awareness of psycho-physical habits affect the brain.
Risks, rewards for undocumented college students
A student who didn’t show up for an appointment inspired Susana Muñoz to research the experiences of undocumented students
Innovative UWM caregiver support system going commercial
TCARE Navigator LLC, a Milwaukee-based start-up, will commercialize an innovative caregiver support system developed UWM.
Juggling Dr. Death and social change
Aaron Schutz combines his education scholarship and teaching with a sideline as a successful science-fiction writer.
Faculty-student team tackles water quality
UWM researchers a have been working with the Milwaukee Health Department to study the health of Milwaukee’s beaches and the surrounding water.
Birds of a feather tweet to aliens
A project partially conceived at UWM ignites the Twittersphere with greetings from Earthlings.
GE Healthcare supports talent pipeline at UWM
A new partnership includes a $1 million donation to establish the GE Healthcare Center for Advanced Computational Imaging at UWM.
When ‘speech’ is not ‘a voice’
Four UW-Milwaukee researchers will be exploring the issues and challenges faced by those using synthesized speech.