Laura L. Hunt
Milestone: Schools of Freshwater Sciences, Public Health celebrate first grads
UWM’s two newest graduate-level schools, established in 2009, are celebrating their first full graduating classes.
UWM faculty dominate Milwaukee’s first TEDx event May 9
MILWAUKEE – Michael R. Lovell, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), will talk about innovation at Milwaukee’s first TEDx event. The event focuses on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Music), a blended-disciplinary approach to tackling social, economic and environmental challenges.. Lovell and five other UWM faculty members are among the 14 speakers at [...]
Turning student brainstorms into businesses
UWM’s Student Startup Challenge, a campuswide competition for students, puts the focus on the earliest entrepreneurial stage – a product idea.
She achieved a master’s – and the ‘anti-desk job’
When Ciara Rahn chose a bachelor’s degree in geology, she did so because the physical science appealed to her – as did the fact that she would spend a lot of time outdoors.
UWM researchers create novel optical fibers
UWM researchers have found the first practical application of a Nobel-Prize-winning phenomenon that was proposed in 1958.
UWM center turns high school students into investigators
A gathering of 250 students and teachers will reveal the results of their experiments at the Milwaukee Life Science and Biology Research Conference on April 15.
NSF supports early careers of UWM researchers
Dawn Erb and Arash Mafi have received Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation.
Microsoft executive receives the UWM Chancellor’s Innovator Award
Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft Corporation’s Server and Tools Business and an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will be presented the UWM Chancellor’s Innovator Award.
Cracking the ice code
John Isbell, an expert in glaciation from the late Paleozoic Era, is developing a baseline for understanding present-day climate change.
