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Helping Families Build Healthier Mealtimes: Zilber College Expert Featured on Real Milwaukee

Helping Families Build Healthier Mealtimes: Zilber College Expert Featured on Real Milwaukee

May 6, 2026

Families looking for practical ways to encourage healthy eating at home recently received expert advice from Michelle King Rimer, who appeared on FOX6’s Real Milwaukee to discuss strategies for making mealtimes more successful — even with picky eaters. Rimer, a …

From MATC to UWM: How Cheron Copeland Found Her Calling in Nutrition and Public Health

From MATC to UWM: How Cheron Copeland Found Her Calling in Nutrition and Public Health

April 21, 2026

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. …

From Navy Corpsman to Community Advocate: UWM Public Health Student Finds His Purpose

From Navy Corpsman to Community Advocate: UWM Public Health Student Finds His Purpose

April 6, 2026

By Anna FunkUWM Report Inspired by an uncle who served in the Navy, Michael Figueroa Osorio enlisted at 18 as a hospital corpsman. That service led to a lifelong commitment to public health. “It’s a role full of pride,” Figueroa Osorio …

From Interviewee to Interviewer: How One Alum Is Paying It Forward in Public Health

From Interviewee to Interviewer: How One Alum Is Paying It Forward in Public Health

March 24, 2026

Since graduating in 2022 from the Zilber College of Public Health with an MPH in Epidemiology, Marina Feffer has been supporting the next generation of public health professionals as a mock interviewer. Over the past several years, she has provided …

From Milwaukee to the World: Kinesiology Faculty Expertise Shapes Global Health Policy

From Milwaukee to the World: Kinesiology Faculty Expertise Shapes Global Health Policy

February 24, 2026

Scott Strath, PhD, Professor of Kinesiology at the Zilber College, is serving on a World Health Organization (WHO) Physical Activity (PA) Working Group focused on the integration of wearables and activity monitors into global physical activity surveillance efforts. This international …

Reminding people they’re talking to chatbots could be harmful, researchers say

Reminding people they’re talking to chatbots could be harmful, researchers say

February 19, 2026

By UWM NewsFebruary 18, 2026 Concerns that chatbot use can cause mental and physical harm have prompted policies that require AI chatbots to deliver regular or constant reminders that they are not human. In an opinion paper published Feb. 18 in the …

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