News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Fifty-six students so far have taken part in the UWM Student Success & Talent Pipeline Initiative, an effort to address the need to diversify the region’s talent pipeline and give undergrads professional experience.
Stacey Nye, an experienced podcaster and true crime junkie, dissects each episode of Hulu’s thriller along with forensics experts, psychologists and actors on the show.
Four academic programs at UW-Milwaukee are ranked among the best in the country by Intelligent.com, a resource for online/on-campus program rankings and higher education planning.
When Nyesha Stone graduated from UWM in 2018, she wasn’t quite sure if she wanted to go into traditional newspaper journalism — and jobs were scarce anyway. So she made her own path.
The program, which launched in 2020, matches students with graduates who provide career advice and emotional support.
Samantha Danen started homebrewing while studying art history at UWM. It led to her pursuing a career that led her to becoming Milwaukee’s first female craft brewer.
Clare Connelly has helped excavate a site at White Sands National Park that has pushed back by thousands of years scientists’ understanding of when people inhabited the area.
Academics have long dismissed the concept of momentum in sports as an illusion. But a team of UWM scientists has used machine learning and 10 years of NFL data to prove the fans right.
When Ashley Valentine was a child, she loved to read but was disappointed that few of the characters in books looked like her. Now she’s opened her own bookstore and tutoring center, Rooted MKE, focusing the needs of Black, Indigenous and other people of color.
More than two dozen UWM faculty and staff members were recognized for their outstanding service to UWM during the annual Fall Awards presentation Oct. 19 at the Zelazo Center.
