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 Laura Otto UWM News December 19, 2018 The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has retained its “gold standard” research classification from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, three years after earning the ranking for the first time. UWM is… 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 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
The 2018 UWM Health Research Symposium was held on May 4th and featured Frances M. Weaver, PhD, who delivered the keynote address on “Health Services Research and the Veterans Health Administration: Changing Care.” Weaver is a professor in the Public… Read More
Earlier this year, Community and Behavioral Health Promotion PhD student Rose Hennessey was selected as a winner of the UWM Women’s & Gender Studies Student Research Paper and Project Contest. As a winner of the contest, Hennessey was invited to… Read More
Autism Science Foundation Podcast March 25, 2018 The Environmental Protection Agency has a big job to do – keep our air and water clean. They do so, in part, with air monitors placed across the United States which allow researchers… Read More