Kathy Quirk
‘Bolsa Família’ boosts families in Brazil
Natasha Borges Sugiyama has been studying the political impact of Brazil’s “Bolsa Família” (Family Grant).
Safe infant sleeping gets a boost
UWM nursing and engineering professors and a team of students have developed a novel approach to co-sleeping safety.
Pop Art Exhibition at UWM Jan. 24-Feb. 21
Return to the 1960s and ’70s in an exhibition at the UWM Art History Gallery Jan. 24-Feb. 21.
Helping adults pursue postsecondary dreams
Adult students are finding support in reaching their goals through the federally funded Educational Opportunity Center.
When Speech is Not a ‘Voice’
If you want 21st-century solutions to 21st-century challenges, you need to bring together researchers from disciplines that haven’t traditionally worked together. That’s the thinking behind the Transdisciplinary Challenge Awards funded through UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies. This year’s award is supporting an engineer, a speech-language pathologist, an artist-scholar and a linguist who are collaborating [...]
A New Prescription for Drug Studies
What can avatars tell medical researchers about the health of real people? The same information, it turns out, that testing large human populations would, says UWM researcher Peter Tonellato. A professor of public health, Tonellato uses avatars, mathematical models and simulations to develop reliable medical guidance at a fraction of the cost of a large-scale [...]
A Sleep Pod to Keep Babies Safe
Jennifer Doering’s interest in safe sleeping for infants grew out of her studies of postpartum depression and parental sleep deprivation in impoverished areas of Milwaukee. In her visits to homes, she found cultural preferences and simple exhaustion often led to co-sleeping. “People were asking for ways to make sleeping safer even if they chose to [...]
‘Bolsa Familia’ Boosts Families in Brazil
Can Brazil’s local governments run a federal income-supplement program without political interference? Yes, they can, says Natasha Borges Sugiyama, a UWM assistant professor of political science who has been studying the political impact of Brazil’s “Bolsa Família” (Family Grant), a program designed to alleviate poverty and develop human potential. The program gives stipends to mothers [...]
Nativity prints featured in UWM exhibition
“The Nativity,” a display of 16th through 18th century prints at UWM’s Art History Gallery, focuses on the humanity of the biblical event.
Facebook or phone call? Family dynamics might decide
Families are relying on technology more and more to keep in touch, but family dynamics play a role in choosing which technologies they use for communicating.
