Health
2017 UWM Research magazine offers more content, new design
This year’s edition highlights the research impact of more than 70 students, faculty members and staff at UWM in a freshly redesigned presentation that better showcases their work.
Periscope Project fills gap in mental health care for new, expecting moms
Pregnancy and new motherhood can be times of high stress and depression, but not enough psychiatrists are trained to handle the perinatal period. Two UWM nursing faculty members are part of an effort to fill that gap.
UWM Research Foundation licenses novel cancer drug
A compound discovered by Alexander “Leggy” Arnold, a UWM associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, could provide an effective weapon against some difficult-to-treat cancers.
UWM receives state grant for entrepreneurship in health field
The I-Corps program based at UWM has received a $33,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. to train entrepreneurial healthcare providers.
UWM alum helps keep Green Bay Packers’ brains healthy
A pioneer in the field of traumatic brain injury research, UWM alum Michael McCrea has found a way to combine his passion for competitive sports and his love for science.
UWM gets ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to join national child brain study
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study by the National Institutes of Health will follow the biological and behavioral development of more than 10,000 children beginning at ages 9 or 10, through adolescence and into early adulthood.
Alum uses high-tech tools to fight crime
Stephanie Sikinger doesn’t use traditional tactics to fight crime. Her preferred tools are a computer and a mountain of data.
First lady of Ethiopia visits UWM
Maternal and infant health care. Nutrition. Empowering women in the economy. These are all areas of concern in both Ethiopia and Milwaukee. Roman Tesfaye, the first lady of Ethiopia, visited the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Zilber School of Public Health on Oct. 3 to learn more about all of these topics, and to share information on […]
UWM professor studies how to keep the wheels turning
Brooke Slavens is helping develop a geared wheelchair — similar to a multispeed bike — that could reduce strain on inclines and in other areas where injuries are most likely to happen.
Researchers seek solutions to the world’s most difficult problems
Cancer and obesity are difficult problems on their own. Combined, they create a fiendishly complex problem. To tackle it, UWM prof Scott Graham and colleagues are borrowing a method originally created to solve national security problems.