Food pantry wins UW System award
The UWM Food Center and Pantry will receive the Regents Diversity Award for its efforts to address food insecurity on campus.
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UWM student putting names to faces of the unidentified deceased
Each year, thousands of unidentified bodies are found across the country. For relatives, not knowing what happened adds to their anguish. A UWM student hopes her website can help solve some of those cases.
A chance to help drew UWM at Washington County alum to firefighting
For more than 20 years, Gerald Kudek watched his father’s dedication as a paid on-call firefighter. It’s what led him to become a firefighter and eventually West Bend fire chief.
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.
Patience pays off for UWM women’s basketball coach
It took some time, but Kyle Rechlicz has led a turnaround in the women’s basketball program — both on the court and in the classroom — by focusing on character and accountability.
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.
Effort to boost student success in Milwaukee showing positive results
M³, an educational collaboration of UWM, Milwaukee Public Schools and Milwaukee Area Technical College, celebrated its second anniversary with an event highlighting the impact the initiative has had so far.
Once a lackluster high-schooler, Frank Lewis now a grad student and author
Midway through high school, Frank Lewis had a GPA of 1.8. But then he got himself on the right track, and a few years later, he’s now pursuing a graduate degree in social work at UWM and has written his first book.
Improving our understanding of the Holocaust
UWM alum Tony Rodriguez works with educators to help them improve the way they teach about the Holocaust.