By Laura Otto UWM News January 1, 2019 A research university runs on federal grant funding. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is one of the nation’s top research universities as recognized by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. It… Read More
By Kathy Quirk UWM Report December 14, 2018 UWM is now nationally recognized for its undergraduate research. In November, the Council on Undergraduate Research awarded the 2018 Campus-Wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments to the university in recognition of the… Read More
By Abby Ng Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service November 29, 2018 Wisconsin is 48th out of 50 states in per capita public health spending, which makes it challenging to address the problem of lead poisoning in Milwaukee, according to Helen Meier,… Read More
Zilber School of Public Health faculty Mustafa Hussein’s (PI) and Phoenix Do’s (Co-PI) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project has been funded. This 2-year and approximately $250k study is titled “Health at a Living Wage: Evidence from Natural Experiments.” The goal of… Read More
By Brandon Rook, Photojournalist Mark Was Today’s TMJ4 October 11, 2018 Tobacco ads aimed at Latino and African American children? A UW-Milwaukee researcher says it’s a trend at corner stores and gas stations in certain zip codes. This data was… Read More
By Laura Otto UWM News October 2, 2018 Research has shown that children born into poverty are more likely to develop chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and obesity, but why this occurs is unclear. Now, three researchers from the… Read More
By Tom Luljak UWM Today, WUWM-FM August 23, 2018 Over the last 50 years, there has been tremendous progress in getting Americans to stop smoking. In 1965, more than 40 percent of people living in this country smoked. The latest… Read More
By Laura Otto UWM Report August 3, 2018 Tobacco products in Milwaukee are more aggressively marketed in stores in African-American and Latino neighborhoods than in white ones, according to a study led by a public health researcher at the University… Read More
By Laura Otto, Angela McManaman and Kathy Quirk UWM Report June 21, 2018 Big data. On the one hand, it’s information overload. On the other, it’s gold in the quest for faster, smarter tools that can be applied to automation… Read More
Exploring the Link Between Persistent Infection, Inflammation, and Mood Disorders By Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC Psychiatry.com May 25, 2018 Mood disorders affect more than 20% of adults in the United States aged 18 to 49 years.1 Extensive research has explored… Read More