News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Makers Market is a highlight of Saturday’s UWM Doors Open Milwaukee. Located in Spaights Plaza, it features more than 50 local alumni, student and community makers, bakers, sculptors, jewelers and artists.
UWM grad student Sunny Schneider had a difficult childhood, dealing with a difficult family situation. Now she’s working to help create a system that better deals with situations like she faced.
Monika Gawande imagined becoming a police officer while growing up in a small village in India. But she soon began dreaming bigger dreams that eventually led her on a path to high tech research and a doctoral degree.
Lieber, who earned her Master of Fine Arts in Dance in 2024, is among this year’s recipients of the prestigious fellowship that honors scholars and artists as they engage in research across any field of knowledge or creative discipline.
UWM doctoral student Swaroop Behera created a portable metal casting kit to get people excited about engineering.
Between the 2021-22 and 2024-25 academic years, the number of students receiving scholarships rose from 33% to 46%, while the value of that aid ballooned from $20 million to $30 million.
Graduating UWM student – whose dad is the Milwaukee fire chief – finds rewards in contributing to research that aims to manage the intense stress emergency medical responders face.
The Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin project involves professors from UWM and UW-Madison along with high school, undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students from Wisconsin and beyond.
University striving to meet federal data security guidelines that will enable researchers to quality for more federal projects and partner with more companies.
UWM PhD student Joel Roberts won the grand prize at the WiSys Big Idea Pitch Competition with a project that harnesses computer power and algorithms to solve traffic problems.
