Paul Florsheim, professor emeritus at the Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health, recently won a legal challenge centered on public access to the Lake Michigan shoreline. Florsheim received a trespassing citation in 2025 after walking along the shoreline beyond …
For Rose Hennessy Garza, PhD, preventing sexual violence means moving beyond awareness alone and asking a more difficult question: How can colleges and communities put effective prevention strategies into practice in ways that truly meet the needs of different students? …
Children at the UWM Children’s Learning Center became “Body Scientists” for a day this summer, exploring how their hearts, muscles and balance help their bodies move. On July 14, Zilber College of Public Health Kinesiology teaching staff and students led …
When more than 5,000 athletes arrived in Milwaukee for the 2026 USA Triathlon, they had access to something competitors at most races do not: real-time information about the temperature of the water they were about to enter. That information was …
Wildfire smoke has increasingly become part of summer in Wisconsin, bringing hazy skies, poor air quality and growing questions about what repeated smoke exposure could mean for public health. Amy Kalkbrenner, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of …
As wildfire smoke affects air quality across large portions of the United States, Amy Kalkbrenner, PhD, MPH, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health, is helping families understand how they …
