News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
UWM senior Patricia McKnight was just a month into her internship at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel when she captured an image that drew national attention for the way it perfectly encapsulated a historic election.
Pandemic-triggered shutdowns and the move to online classes campuswide put students who didn’t have a working laptop and couldn’t afford a new one in a bind. That’s when UWM staff leapt into action.
Students who have never taken an online class before might be leery right about now, when the coronavirus pandemic has pushed all instruction online. But they don’t have to be.
Under-detection of coronavirus illness leaves health officials without data needed to slow its spread, UWM epidemiologist Amy Kalkbrenner said. To address the problem, she’s is urging people who feel sick to report their symptoms through a confidential online survey she has developed.
UWM faculty, researchers and staff have come together to support emergency health care workers and first responders by donating their personal protective equipment.
UWM neuroscientist Karyn Frick has been honored by UW System as one of three 2020 Regent Scholar recipients. It recognizes Frick’s extraordinary efforts in support of undergraduate research, innovation and entrepreneurship.
In normal times, University Housing staff has two months or more to prepare for the controlled chaos of thousands of students moving home for the summer. Coronavirus changed all that.
For the fifth year in a row, a group of architecture students from UWM and engineering students from UW-Madison are working together to design a house for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.
Three programs may be able to help relieve financial hardship that many UWM students are experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is working quickly to help instructors move classes online before students return virtually March 30.
