Improving connections for better online education
Simone Conceição’s online education research on how to keep students engaged in virtual learning has proven critically important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health and Wellness
Seeing a way toward better health decisions
COVID-19 communication in mass media often involves graphs. Min Sook Park’s research investigates how the public’s understanding of these graphs affects perceptions of the pandemic’s severity.
The sewage sleuth
COVID-19 infection rates vary from location to location, which complicates health responses. Sandra McLellan researches how sewage can help track the virus.
Federal grant advances tool to evaluate home environment for people with disabilities
The pandemic has prompted an explosion of remote work. But for those with disabilities, working from home can be fraught with challenges. UWM researchers are helping create a tool to identify those problems.
UWM College of Nursing expanding program to UWM at Waukesha
Students in the Waukesha area who want to obtain a four-year nursing degree from UWM will soon be able to do so almost entirely at UWM at Waukesha. The UWM College of Nursing is expanding its program to UWM at Waukesha beginning in fall 2021.
UWM joins effort to improve nutrition education
UWM, Milwaukee Area Technical College and Mount Mary University are combining efforts to improve and expand access to nutrition and dietetics education, with a special emphasis on diversifying the workforce.
Future nurse practitioners reach out to help students in quarantine
Students in coronavirus quarantine or isolation can feel, well, isolated. That’s why the College of Nursing created a program to check in on those students to make sure their needs are met.
UWM professor explores nuanced perceptions of aging in culture
Getting older isn’t just about moving into a retirement community and “over-the-hill” balloons for birthday parties. It’s also not just about finding the latest elixirs or exercise routines to stay fit or maintain a youthful complexion.
New book explores a cure for the absent father
Forty percent of babies in the United States are born to unwed parents, a fact that increases the likelihood that young fathers, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, will not have a positive presence in their children’s lives.
Company licenses drug development compounds from UWM Research Foundation
The newly licensed compounds, developed by the laboratory of James Cook, act on a particular neurotransmitter receptor in the brain, which has shown promise for treatment of epilepsy and other convulsant disorders.