News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The recipients of 2015 UWM Libraries Outstanding Achievement Awards are Mary Boulanger, Academic Staff, Emily Li, University Staff, and Maxwell Cozzi, a student employee. A senior academic librarian in User Services, Boulanger was honored for her dedicated support of students, faculty, staff and colleagues, and in particular for her outreach to the Zilber School of […]
Plant-based meat substitutes are available and eventually we will grow meat in a test tube – but will the public buy them?
Alice Yan, assistant professor, Community & Behavioral Health Promotion in the Zilber School of Public Health, recently received a new grant from the American Cancer Society.
An internship at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center helped introduce Gladys Gonzalez to transplant administration. She’ll continue work there after graduation.
Attracted by interdisciplinary study and real-world experience, more than two dozen students have enrolled in the fast-growing Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding program.
UWM’s Zilber School of Public Health recently hosted training for more than 50 elementary, middle and high school counselors, social workers and administrators from Wisconsin and Illinois to learn strategies and interventions from the Family Acceptance Project. The Family Acceptance Project is a research, intervention, education and policy initiative headed by Caitlyn Ryan at San […]
Ronald Perez named interim dean for UWM’s Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health.
From driving their girlfriends or wives to prenatal appointments to learning how to cope with chronic stressors like urban poverty, young Milwaukee men are transitioning into fatherhood with insight from UWM professors, community partners and a desire to be there for their infant sons and daughters.
UWM scholars, experts and researchers are working in partnership with many others locally and across the nation to reduce infant mortality rates and improve the quality of life across generations for families and their babies.
Addressing today’s most pressing heath care concerns is the day-to-day work of UWM research faculty in chemistry, public health, social work and even information technology.
