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UWM faculty dominate Milwaukee’s first TEDx event May 9

Chancellor Michael R. Lovel and five other UWM faculty members are among the 14 speakers at the May 9 TEDxHarambee.

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Mystery of the disappearing prairie-chickens

UW-Milwaukee researchers are working to reverse the decline of an iconic Wisconsin bird.

May 1 talk looks at privacy concerns of surveillance video

Kelly Gates, a researcher who studies the growing use of surveillance video in police work, speaks on “The Computational Work of Policing.”

UWM receives grant to promote diversity in librarianship

Wooseob Jeong, associate professor of information studies, has been awarded a grant from the 2013 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program.

Update on UWM Budget Balances

In recent days, there has been a great deal of attention focused on the budgeting practices of University of Wisconsin System institutions and the reported billion dollar cash balance.  Because each campus is different, I can only address the situation here at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.   I want to make it clear that at [...]

‘Log On, Plug In, Fire Up’: Using technology in education

‘Log On, Plug In, Fire Up’: Using technology in education

An online University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee class on using technology in education has designed and planned a conference – an online conference, of course.

Undergrad researchers spotlighted this week

Undergraduate researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will have a chance to share their work this week.

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Economist, television personality Austan Goolsbee to visit UWM

The former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and Chief Economist for President Obama, speaks April 18 at 6 p.m. in UWM’s Zelazo Center.

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.

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NSF supports early careers of UWM researchers

Dawn Erb and Arash Mafi have received Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation.