News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
For Alexandra Rodriguez, a doctoral student of kinesiology at UWM, volunteering at the Warrior Games was a chance to explore her research interests. But more than that, it was a chance to give back.
This year marks the centennial of congressional approval of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. The brutal treatment of some suffragists helped turn public sentiment, UWM scholar Carolyn Eichner says.
Her mother’s experience with cancer opened Carla Elena Echeveste’s eyes to the need for people who could act as liaisons between non-English speaking patients and the medical community.
“Evicted” was required reading for students in a UWM architecture studio class. The students’ work will be on display at the Mobile Design Box through September.
One year after their effort to donate shoes and water filters to the impoverished country, Steven Duclair and his team are gaining traction on a bigger goal: building a sustainable community centered around a school.
You wouldn’t leave your front door open all night when you could lock it. But many people do the equivalent with their internet security, says cybersecurity expert Khaled Sabha.
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface in July 1969, some of the work in UWM labs has the potential to make space exploration safer and transport space travelers even farther.
The huge field of candidates and changing norms of presidential politics could create debates like never before. Thomas Holbrook, a UWM distinguished professor of political science, explains what to look for.
Microsoft President Brad Smith pledged a donation worth more than $1.5 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Connected Systems Institute on Monday at UWM’s new Lubar Entrepreneurship Center.
Kasia Weina and her partner are having success pursuing two goals with their startup business: “With Evergreen Labs, we want to prove that you can do good and also make money.”
