News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Allison Kotowicz is the only graduate student from UWM to receive this prestigious award in recent years. She’s studying the Maasai people of Tanzania and how they are preserving their identity in the 21st century.
Operating without traditional family structure, former foster children often have a difficult time navigating the challenges of college. UWM’s recently established Fostering Success program aims to help.
A collection of UWM faculty and students is using their own Twitch channel to explore the academic side of video and board games.
The UWM Food Center and Pantry will receive the Regents Diversity Award for its efforts to address food insecurity on campus.
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.
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.
America is becoming increasingly diverse, but the boards of directors of large companies aren’t keeping up, UWM researcher Maria Goranova found.
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.
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.
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.
