Though the Girl Scouts of Wisconsin are often associated with their seasonal cookie sales, their greater mission is to develop the “3 C’s” in young girls: courage, confidence and character. UWM students of the College of Health Sciences wanted to help.
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.
Colleen Galambos, the Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology, has been appointed to a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that will examine loneliness and social isolation in older adults.
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.
Dec. 10 was a historic day for the Italian community in Milwaukee as the Italian consul general visited the city for the first time in 25 years.
Seven people from UWM were among the 88 winners in the first round of the Foxconn “Smart Cities-Smart Futures” competition, which attracted 325 entries from higher education institutions across Wisconsin.
The UWM women’s basketball team will host its second annual Pride Night Dec. 20 in a matchup with Florida State at the Klotsche Center.
UWM’s Nonprof-IT program provides benefits for everyone involved: Information technology students get real-world experience and local nonprofit groups get free help with their websites and technology.
The blueprints have been drawn and plans are in the works to move the UWM Libraries Archives, which are currently located in various places throughout the Golda Meir Library building, to the third floor of the west wing.
A new oral history project captures the feelings of fear and devastation wrought by the disease, as well as the hope and success in fighting it. It’s all captured in interviews with many of those who lived through it.