The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is funding a two-year, approximately $250,000 study, led by Zilber School of Public Health Assistant Professor Mustafa Hussein, to assess the short- and long-term effects of living wage policies, popular in US urban areas in the mid-1990s and 2000s, on the health and well-being of low-income adults. The study is titled “Health at a Living Wage: Evidence from Natural Experiments.”

Four UWM research projects have received Catalyst Grant seed funding from the UWM Research Foundation. From left: Han Joo Lee, Psychology: An online, self-administered, psychiatric diagnostic program; Mohammad Rahman, Engineering: A lightweight, powered hand-rehabilitation glove; Ionel Popa, Physics: A new method of purifying antibodies; Dazhong Zhao, Biological Sciences: A hybrid breeding system for sorghum.

With two separate, highly competitive grants from the U.S. Department of Education, UWM is among just 55 institutions nationwide to earn four-year Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship funding. The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (with UW-Madison) was awarded $600,000 and the Center for International Education earned nearly $1.8 million.