For UWM senior Angelica Refinski, sports have always been a huge part of her life — and now they’re helping shape her future career, too. This May, Angelica will graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and a minor …
At the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s Zilber College of Public Health, students are making an impact both inside and outside the classroom—and Ken Bland is a standout example. Ken, a first-year graduate student in the college’s MPH in Nutrition and Dietetics program, …
When Cheron Copeland was 16 years old, she was given a simple assignment in her engineering class: research potential careers and job shadow someone in the field. Copeland knew she wanted a career related to food, but not culinary arts. …
By Kelly MeyerhoferMilwaukee Journal SentinelJanuary 29, 2026 Key Points For weeks, Narges couldn’t reach her family and friends back home in Iran. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee graduate student worried about the worst-case scenario as she watched protests convulse her home …
Congratulations to the very first cohort of UW-Milwaukee’s MPH–Nutrition and Dietetics Graduate Program graduates! We are so proud of this incredible group for not only excelling in their studies and training, but also for representing our new program with professionalism, …
As part of UWM’s brand-new Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Scholars initiative, Dan Holliday—a PhD candidate at the Zilber College of Public Health—will present their thesis research in a series of accessible classes next summer. The program, launched for the 2025–2026 academic …
