News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
UWM physics students got the chance to combine science with an adventure when they ventured to the Australian Outback recently. They helped build a radio telescope array that’s part of an international hunt for pulsars.
Stephanie Sikinger doesn’t use traditional tactics to fight crime. Her preferred tools are a computer and a mountain of data.
The long march of Kevin Evans, who uses his UWM degree to help veterans now struggling with the same issues that he once did.
Dream City Music is one of many startup businesses founded by UWM students, so the five-month-old company is a natural fit for UWM’s 2016 Student Startup Challenge.
Not just a day, but a week’s worth of activities during UWM’s Veterans Week will honor those who have served. Events both on and off campus will begin Friday, Nov. 4, and lead to Veterans Day on Nov. 11.
Though it seems jarring at first, archaeology has adopted the tools of the digital age. Derek B. Counts, UWM professor of art history, helped edit this volume that looks at this development from all sides.
Two students in UWM’s music composition program attended top summer programs — one of them in Paris, France — in combining music and technology into new art forms.
While the 2016 presidential campaign has confronted the GOP with some unusual challenges, UWM political scientist Thomas Holbrook offers an analysis of the political landscape that suggests a longer-term problem for the party.
A revamped remedial math program that emphasizes active participation is helping remove a big stumbling block for student success. The percentage of students going from remedial to for-credit math courses in a year zoomed from 38 percent to 67 percent.
Public employees, including those at UWM, are under stress, says Ellen Bravo, director of Family Values @ Work. Her keynote address at this year’s University Staff Conference will talk about ways to alleviate that.
