News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Food has a way of connecting people. To explore that, UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies embarked on the Story Cart Project, in which graduate students and researchers traveled with a mobile cart to 27 Milwaukee locations to question strangers about food.
Citizen scientists have provided important help to astronomers exploring the heavens, and now they are invited to take a more hands-on role.
More than two dozen people were honored for their many years of service to UW-Milwaukee at the annual Fall Awards ceremony Wednesday at the Zelazo Center.
Home movies will be inspected and/or repaired by UWM volunteers at the free event Oct. 14. The movies can also be screened for an audience while the owner narrates.
Astronomy is one of the most popular sciences, in part, because looking at the night sky is universal, something we all share, Jean Creighton says. But people may also feel a connection for another reason.
A new dual-degree partnership between UW-Milwaukee and the Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy allows students to earn their bachelor’s degree and Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) in as little as six years.
The collaboration is designed to train a new generation of researchers by pairing classroom training with hands-on experience as students work alongside mentors from the Cancer Center.
Michelle Thaller will speak at UWM about how discoveries made by largely overlooked women led to our current understanding of dead stars, dark matter and the end of everything.
The undergraduate nursing program at UW-Milwaukee is among the top 10% of universities nationwide in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Research by UWM associate professor Woonsup Choi has shown that urban expansion is associated with a more intense urban heat island effect, including more exceptionally hot nights. Green areas are important, but they’re not growing along with cities.
