News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Every Thursday for the last 11 years, John Lynch, former associate dean and associate professor in the College of Health Sciences, can be found volunteering at Friedens Food Pantries. This year, his efforts were recognized with the Hope House Peace Builder Award.
The 2020 edition of UWM Research magazine, now available in print and online, showcases the efforts of more than 100 faculty members, students and staff.
Each year UWM’s Office of Undergraduate Research honors several seniors with its Senior Excellence in Research Awards. Here’s a look at the projects and research the 2019-2020 SERA students are working on.
UWM has signed the first of a planned series of agreements with area universities and colleges to provide an accelerated, dual degree program for students interested in pursuing a career in athletic training.
The American Occupational Therapy Association has awarded Virginia Stoffel, associate professor in the College of Health Sciences at UWM, its highest honor.
Jeanette Kowalik hadn’t planned on coming home to Milwaukee so soon. But when the city health agency faced a leadership crisis, friends and community members urged her to apply for the job.
School supply drives typically focus on the students of the school. The UWM Partners for Health decided do things a little differently.
Some two dozen UWM incoming undergraduates have dedicated much of their last summer before college to jumpstarting their academic careers, doing meaningful research in areas ranging from safe sleep for infants to engineering self-healing materials.
Cadavers are a vital teaching tool in an anatomy class, allowing students to explore the mysteries of the human body. But it wouldn’t happen without people who donate their bodies and the families who allow it.
Health educator Timothy K. Behrens has been named dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the fifth dean since the college’s inception in 1974.
