UWM honors top undergraduate researchers
This year’s Senior Excellence in Research Award have been exploring wide-ranging topics including machine learning, architecture, biology, medicine and the intersection of art and technology.
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An actor’s homecoming: Willem Dafoe returns to where it all started
As a small-town kid studying at UWM in the 1970s, Willem Dafoe never dreamed of becoming a star. But he’s gone on to become one of the most acclaimed and in-demand actors in the business.
Alum helps immigrant and refugee children during pandemic with multilingual story time
Lynden Sculpture Garden’s virtual story time reaches youngsters ages 4 to 8 years old as a way “to start conversations with children about displacement, adaptation, and belonging.”
Health of UWM vital to health of region, Mone tells regents
While the challenges facing Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin are great, no single institution is better positioned to help address them than UWM, Chancellor Mark Mone told the UW System Board of Regents on Thursday.
An ‘over the counter’ hearing aid may put treatment within reach
For many people, the cost of a device to help them hear what everyone else is hearing is too much to bear. Yi Hu, an associate professor of electrical engineering at UWM, is hoping to change that.
UWM grads help provide domestic source of critical medical diagnostic material
Chemistry professor Mark Dietz and graduates of his lab are helping two Wisconsin companies produce a vital material that was until recently available only from foreign sources.
‘Down-to-earth’ and ‘timeless,’ actor and alum Willem Dafoe charms students
Dafoe spoke to more than 600 students at an event modeled on the talk show “Inside the Actors Studio.” He was in town to speak at commencement and to receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree.
For frogs, the mating competition is mighty fierce
When it’s time to mate, the female Eastern gray tree frog goes to the pond, where hundreds of potential suitors await, each calling in wildly varying chirps. So how does she choose?
‘Find what you love and practice it,’ Dafoe tells UWM graduates
Four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe returned to UWM after nearly 50 years, delivering this year’s commencement address and receiving an honorary doctorate.
Carmen high school seniors celebrate college signing day at UWM
More than 300 Carmen graduating seniors celebrated the schools’ first-ever Senior Signing Day, with drum rolls, high energy cheering, music, dancing and scholarship and honors announcements.