Master’s student Nateya Taylor completes a summer internship
Master’s student Nateya Taylor completed a summer internship at the Smithsonian’s Black history museum.… Continue Reading »
Henry Wehrs Receives 2022 Best Capstone Poster Award
Henry Wehrs Receives 2022 Best Capstone Poster Award
Henry Wehrs received the 2022 Best Capstone Poster Award for his project poster, Out of State Landlords and Single Family Rentals: Investment Behavior in Milwaukee’s Rental Market.… Continue Reading »
Liam Farin Receives Gold Ribbon at 2022 UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium
Liam Farin Receives Gold Ribbon at 2022 UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium
Urban studies major, Liam Farin, received a Gold Ribbon for his oral presentation, The Value of Urban Agriculture: A Community’s Perspective, at the 2022 UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium.… Continue Reading »
CED Research Fellow’s “Mapping Opportunity” project
CED Research Fellow’s “Mapping Opportunity” project
Kudos to USP dissertator and Center for Economic Development research fellow Tathagato Chakraborty’s for the newly developed Mapping Opportunity project, which he created in partnership with a UCLA sociology dissertator, and can be viewed here …… Continue Reading »
Panel discussion at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
Panel discussion at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
Venue: 2220 N. Terrace Ave, Milwaukee, 53202
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 26 @ 6:30pm… Continue Reading »
MNNS: PhD student Ayodeji Obayomi writes op-ed on gender inequity
MNNS: PhD student Ayodeji Obayomi writes op-ed on gender inequity
PhD student Ayodeji Obayomi’s op-ed on gender inequity in street naming in Milwaukee was published in the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.… Continue Reading »
MJS: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore focuses congressional attention on Milwaukee’s challenges
MJS: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore focuses congressional attention on Milwaukee’s challenges
Urban Studies Faculty member, Anne Bonds, is included in this article. “U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore led a bus tour Tuesday through Milwaukee, during which those aboard commented how the community, once regarded as the ‘Harlem of the Midwest,’ has evolved into one of the …… Continue Reading »
WISN: Group aims to transform some 2,900 vacant lots into healing spaces
WISN: Group aims to transform some 2,900 vacant lots into healing spaces
Urban Studies Masters Student Kacee Ochalek is interviewed on the Healing Spaces Initiative that she is working on in her job with the city, also the subject of her master’s thesis. Nice job, Kacee!… Continue Reading »
Mapping the harm of COVID-19 misinformation on social media (UWM Report)
Mapping the harm of COVID-19 misinformation on social media (UWM Report)
Professor Rina Ghose, master’s student Rachel Hansen and doctoral student Amir Forati found that “where” mattered in a study of COVID-19 misinformation on social media and subsequent spikes spread of the disease.… Continue Reading »
Associate Director Jamie Harris quoted in Journal Sentinel
Associate Director Jamie Harris quoted in Journal Sentinel
Associate Director Jamie Harris was quoted in a Journal Sentinel story on the state of evictions in Milwaukee.… Continue Reading »