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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee reached the $200 million goal of its largest fundraising effort ever. The money will support student success, research excellence and community engagement. Fundraising will continue through June 30, 2019.

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Campus Pride chose 30 colleges and universities based on their overall ratings on the Campus Pride Index and specific LGBTQ-inclusive benchmark measures. UWM is proud to be among them for the fourth year in a row.

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Four thousand students will be making UWM their new home effective Tuesday, August 28.

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John Gurda is Milwaukee's premier historian. His "Making of Milwaukee" history of the city became an Emmy-Award winning PBS show. His most recent book is "Milwaukee: A City Built on Water."

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NEXT.cc, a collaboration involving the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and other organizations provides an array of projects elementary and high schools can use to supplement lessons.

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David Pate assumed chairman responsibilities on Aug. 1; Hopes to 'Raise the profile of the department nationally in light of all the groundbreaking research happening here.'

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“Optical Vacuum" is the first full-length examination of how theater design affected moviegoers’ behavior and perception of the films they watch -- and still does.

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Tobacco products in Milwaukee are more aggressively marketed in stores in African-American and Latino neighborhoods than in white ones, according to a study led by a public health researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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The annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society is Aug. 3-6, with panel discussions and keynotes on understanding spiders, horses, dogs, birds, octopuses and many other organisms.

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Most of the ordinary matter in the universe isn’t in the form of a star or a planet, but gas. And most of that gas exists not in galaxies but around and between them. A team of astronomers has found a new way to study the gas surrounding a young galaxy, BX418, with an eye toward finding clues to how the first galaxies formed.

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Two dozen distinguished individuals and one corporate partner will be honored by the UWM Alumni Association on Oct. 12, 2018. The eclectic, inspiring and accomplished list of awardees is now available.

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Historian, essayist and former museum professional Chris Cantwell is an experienced analyst and archivist of American history and culture. His diverse areas of expertise include: Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism, religion and politics, history of the Midwest, collective memory and nostalgia, and labor and working-class history.

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Northwestern Mutual is forming a new partnership with Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) to create the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute. The partnership is the latest step by the financial security company in its commitment to advance Milwaukee as a national hub for technology, research, business, and talent development.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will host Foxconn's first formal international internship program in the United States, sending engineering students to Taiwan to study at Chung Yuan Christian University and work at Foxconn facilities there.

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Can urban treatment plants handle the growing amount of wastewater? This tool can determine how reliable aging plants are.

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Faculty in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have elected Lingqian (Ivy) Hu to serve as chair of school’s internationally recognized department of urban planning.

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A new technique offers a 'molecular fingerprint' for functional groups, such as proteins, carbohydrates and lipids, which can signal the development of retinal disease

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Mo Zell was elected to serve as chair of the architecture department at UW-Milwaukee's School of Architecture & Urban Planning effective August 1, 2018.

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Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, philanthropist and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 12. Her talk, “My Leadership Journey,” is brought to the university as part of its 2017-18 Distinguished Lecture Series.

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ANSYS will provide the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's new Connected Systems Institute with engineering simulation software to enhance its research and educational efforts related to the "industrial internet of things."

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Actuarial math and computer science come together in a new study that aims to convince policymakers to invest in infrastructure cybersecurity.

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Tracy Boyer has been named the new Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair in Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and director of the Center for Water Policy. Boyer examines how human behavior affects the use of water resources through markets, pricing and institutions.

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On March 18, Russian voters will head to the polls for their seventh presidential election since 1990. Reuter, who holds a senior research appointment with the Moscow-based International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, shared his political predictions and his long view on the way forward for improved U.S.-Russian relations. He also talks about the special counsel indictments that have roiled Washington, D.C., in recent weeks.

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A fire in UWM’s Mainstage Theatre caused millions in damage and disrupted productions for almost a year. But it also provided the opportunity to improve the theater in myriad ways, from lighting and acoustics to accessibility and comfort, and it taught students lessons in resilience and adaptability.

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A new forecasting tool attempts to predict onset of spring an entire season in advance. The technology could help managers of natural ecosystems and agriculture anticipate effects of climate change.

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A water sensor developed by an entrepreneur and the manager UWM's Water Technology Accelerator is a finalist in a NASA competition that seeks to spur creation of new technology. The sensors could have application in space as well as on Earth.

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A new model is required to explain the radiation from the collision of two neutron stars discovered by LIGO

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The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is giving the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $900,000 to support a public-private partnership focused on improving productivity through the Internet of Things, a network of devices that collect and exchange information.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will celebrate the opening of the new Emile H. Mathis Gallery with an exhibit featuring some of the UWM Art Collection’s most prominent works, including pieces by Picasso, Rembrandt and Degas.

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Victory Media announced that UW-Milwaukee earned the Military Friendly School Designation and will be showcased in its annual “Guide to Military Friendly Schools” and upcoming editions of “G.I. Jobs,” “Military Spouse Magazine” and on militaryfriendly.com.

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Rebecca Neumann specializes in international finance and macroeconomics, but she also devotes a lot of time to an issue that hits closer to home: preparing students for a life of financial security.

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A distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been named one of world’s most cited academic researchers in the field of engineering by Clarivate Analytics, a leading company that monitors scholarly data.

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Prehistoric polar forests were built for survival, but were not hardy enough to live in ultra-high concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. A UWM geologist is studying the tree fossil record in Antarctica from a mass extinction 250 million years ago, looking for clues to how greenhouse gases affected plants -- then and now.

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UW-Milwaukee's new multidisciplinary institute will focus on the industrial internet of things, which uses sensors to gather data from equipment, machines, and manufactured products through secure data networks.

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Students affected by Hurricane Maria and other natural disasters can apply to UWM via an alternative, indvidualized admissions process and potentially get in-state tuition for their first semester.

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A major grant to the Electa Quinney Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will help increase the number of American Indian teachers and school administrators.

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UW-Milwaukee students and a neuropsychologist jointly built a tablet app that helps brain surgeons identify tissue that would impair patient critical functions if removed.

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The National Science Foundation has awarded $100,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education to help research the preservation and teaching of two indigenous languages.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is launching the public phase of a $200 million fundraising campaign, the largest in its history, after raising more than $170 million during a quiet phase that began in 2012.

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Funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research), brings together a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in computational science, research ethics, data practices, law and policy, health information, social computing, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and data privacy.

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A grant from the National Science Foundation will help UWM scientists cut the cost of mass-producing tiny water sensors coated with nano materials.

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Imaging the movement of a virus demonstrates that single-particle X- ray scattering has the potential to shed new light on key molecular processes, like viral infection, when paired with powerful new algorithms.