As a child, Ansa Joseph dreamed of working in law enforcement. But after she graduated from Cudahy High School in 2019, Joseph’s dream felt out of reach. She and her family had immigrated to the United States from Kerala, India, …
Colleen Galambos, the Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology, has been appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Advisory Committee for the Program on Health Care and Public Health. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and …
Social Work Assistant Professor Andrew Steward served on a panel for the National Center to Reframe Aging‘s “Summit 2026: The Movement to Reframe Aging.” The panel discussion was titled “The Experts in the Room: How to Center Lived Experience in …
Social Work Lecturer Julie Bock was interviewed on WUWM Milwaukee’s NPR about recent changes to SNAP benefits in Wisconsin.
By Al Dickenson During the Fall 2025 semester, Criminal Justice and Criminology Associate Professor Kimberly Hassell began teaching a new course focused on connecting students to practicing professionals within the criminal justice system. In this course, Criminal Justice 592, Hassell …
By Al Dickenson Ten years ago, a shared concern brought leaders at Children’s Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee together: As children were moving through the child welfare system achieving safety and permanency, many continued to carry the weight of unaddressed …
Social Work Professor Melinda S. Kavanaugh was quoted in The New York Times article, “The U.S Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids.” Kavanaugh works locally, nationally and globally on applied translational research focused on young carer populations …
Social Work Senior Lecturer Livy Malle was interviewed on Real Milwaukee about supporting kids through separation and divorce.
Social Work Assistant Professor Ai Bo received an R21 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for her study titled, “Mechanisms of parenting on adolescent alcohol use: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling study.” The co-investigator is Educational …
Social Work Assistant Professor Jane Hereth‘s project, EMBODY: A Community‑Engaged, Movement‑Based Intervention to Support LGBTQIA+ Young Adults, received 2026-2027 funding from UW-Milwaukee’s Discovery and Innovation (DIG) grant. The co-investigator is Mair Culbreth, who is associate professor of dance in the …
