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By Laura Otto UWM Research February 8, 2021 Growing up, Amanda Simanek saw how friends and family sought out her father, an automotive mechanic, for trusted advice on car repairs. Years later, she’s tapping into trust as a way to… Read More
By Mary Sussman Shepherd Express October 28, 2020 While the pandemic rages on, with more than 28,000 confirmed cases of and 300 deaths from COVID-19 in the City of Milwaukee so far this year, the city’s youngest children continue to… Read More
By Laura Otto UWM News August 20, 2020 Milwaukee children do not have equal risk of lead exposure. The combined neighborhood factors of race, poverty and low homeownership compound the risk for elevated childhood blood lead levels in Milwaukee County,… Read More
By NCRC September 10, 2020 Before the pandemic devastated minority communities, banks and government officials starved them of capital. Lower-income and minority neighborhoods that were intentionally cut off from lending and investment decades ago today suffer not only from reduced… Read More
UW-Milwaukee faculty Celeste Campos-Castillo, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Linnea Laestadius, Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Administration (Co-PI), have received a grant from the Technology and Adolescent Mental Wellness program (TAM) to conduct a nationally representative survey experiment… Read More
Data Shows Increased Movement Of Residents After 1 Month Of State’s ‘Safer At Home’ Order By Hope Kirwan Wisconsin Public Radio May 1, 2020 New data shows Wisconsinites might be growing less compliant with social distancing measures meant to slow… Read More
The Tension Between Two Infection Measures And The State’s Plan To Relax Public Health Guidelines By Will Cushman Wiscontext May 5, 2020 Nearly six weeks after sweeping restrictions on public life in Wisconsin went into effect to arrest the pace… Read More
The following undergraduate students were mentored by Zilber faculty including (soon-to-be Dr.) Rose Hennessy, and participated in UWM’s 2020 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium. You can see their work here. Congratulations, and a job well done to all! Ashley Lopez, “A Systematic… Read More
By Tom Luljak UWM Today, WUWM 89.7 FM April 30, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has impacted all of us in Wisconsin. But here in Milwaukee some members of our community have been particularly hard hit. Four Milwaukee ZIP codes show… Read More
By Brendan Cullerton CBS 58 News April 21, 2020 MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik says there needs to be a thorough investigation of the six voters and one poll worker they think contracted COVID-19 from election… Read More