Laura L. Hunt
Stoking UWM’s Student Entrepreneurial Fire
When Jesse Depinto’s full-time job was suddenly downsized, he began to dream of starting a business of his own. Depinto, a 23-year-old engineering undergraduate who already co-owns a small company, is now pursuing another thanks to UWM’s Student Startup Challenge (SSC). The SSC is energizing the campus entrepreneurial culture, giving students with sustainable product ideas [...]
Cracking the Ice Code
What happened the last time the Earth’s climate shifted from “icehouse” to “hothouse”? And what does it tell us about climate change today? John Isbell is on a quest to coax that information from the last time it happened on a vegetated Earth. The only problem is, that was between 290 and 335 million years [...]
Teen Brains on Pot
Calm teenagers can reason almost as well as adults. But introduce a negative emotion, like stress, into their decision-making process and it’s a whole other story. Regular pot use before age 16 has been shown to disrupt development of parts of the brain involved in the ability to make rational decisions, persist over time and [...]
2012 in Review: UWM’s ‘The Wire’ course started academic trend
Marc Levine developed a course using the critically acclaimed HBO series “The Wire.”
UWM signs collaborative agreement with Ningbo University in China
MILWAUKEE — Representatives of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have entered into an agreement with a Chinese university that will expand educational cooperation and initiate collaborative efforts on freshwater-related research. Johannes Britz, UWM Provost and Vice Chancellor, and David Yu, interim dean of the Graduate School, today met with local leaders and scientists involved in [...]
Companies get greener with student power
UWM’s Industrial Assessment Center is the only center of its kind in Wisconsin and the largest of the 24 funded nationwide.
WCCR offers a ‘front door’ for budding state entrepreneurs
UWM is part of a new statewide University Center that will stimulate commercialization and startups, and support entrepreneurs.
EPA grant supports UWM effort to monitor Great Lakes invasives
Rudy Strickler will work to find a more efficient method of monitoring incoming invasive species.
UWM poll: improved views of state’s economy among those struggling financially
Evaluations of Wisconsin’s current economy have improved significantly among those who describe their current personal financial situation as “poor” or “fair.”
New center studies nanoparticles in the environment
A collaborative research project is taking an interdisciplinary look at the interactions of nanoparticles within living tissue.
