Nia Wilson and her dad, Jon, share their top advice for successfully applying to and enrolling at UW-Milwaukee - from completing the FAFSA to working with a guidance counselor.
John Parlier, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, managed to complete his undergraduate degree with no debt – and money in the bank for graduate school.
Associates from Baird, the employee-owned international financial services firm, are giving the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $1 million of working capital for students in the Investment Management Certificate Program (IMCP) at the Lubar School of Business to use in practicing managing portfolios.
The $1 million donation from Jerry Jendusa will support an entrepreneur-in-residence program at UWM's Lubar Center for Entrepreneurship, allowing students to learn from individuals who have successfully started their own companies.
UW-Milwaukee Distinguished Professor Nadya Fouad is named the inaugural Mary and Ted Kellner Chair in Educational Psychology.
New handbook for teachers is designed to help them deal with issues of gender identity, sexism and related questions that may come up in the classroom.
UW-Milwaukee students, primarily arts majors, are paired with older adults in senior residence homes and programs to enjoy and create art. One student this year lived at the senior home.
Members of UWM's Center for Cosmology, Gravitation and Astrophysics have made a significant contribution in the computer resources behind a second detection of gravitational waves from data collected from the twin observatories called Advanced LIGO.
Fatal bicycle and pedestrian crashes are on the rise in Wisconsin, where urban planning professor Bob Schneider has created a list of policy recommendations and urban design solutions to make the state's roads safer.
A scientific team led by UWM physicists image a never-before-seen molecular reaction as a light-sensitive protein responds to light. The work, using an X-ray laser, is unmasking how proteins carry out the chemistry necessary for life.
Mai Shoua Xiong, who was honored as Wisconsin's elementary teacher of the year, focuses on the diverse and multilingual students in her first grade classroom.
A machine-learning algorithm created by a A research team has created an algorithm that improves the accuracy of dating past events by a factor of up to 300. The mathematical research, led by two UWM physicists, is featured in the journal Nature.
UWM Professor Paru Shah discusses the role of minority voters in the 2016 presidential campaign, and how the “minority vote” is not a monolithic entity.
More than 120,000 young athletes experience a sports-related head injury each year. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Medical College of Wisconsin have created a free smartphone app that helps diagnose and track the treatment of head injuries among young athletes.
UWM paleontologist Stephen Dornbos is on an international research team that has found fossilized multicellular marine algae, or seaweed, dating back more than 555 million years, ranking among the oldest examples of multicellular life on Earth.
The detection of gravitational waves came after a nearly 20-year search – the largest and most ambitious project ever funded by the National Science Foundation – and physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee played an essential role in both computing and data analysis.
High school students take the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Architecture 100 course – free and online – to help inspire their interest in the field.
University students and residents of senior housing come together in an award-winning project that encourages storytelling collaborations.
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education gave the R1 -- “highest research activity” designation -- to only 115 of the 4,665 universities evaluated this year.
A story included in 17th century papers by an anonymous author offer a glimpse of the personal life of the famous bard, about whom relatively little is known. The anecdote, found by a UWM historian, is on exhibit through March 27 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Nutritional sciences students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee help Olympic hopeful speed skaters develop healthy eating habits that can help fuel their performance.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries now has two limited edition collections of rare early jazz and blues music from Paramount Music in nearby Grafton, Wisconsin.
Milwaukee and Wisconsin community members learn more about Latino culture with the help of the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee worked with area teens to develop an app that gives them information on more than 250 things to do outside of school hours.
[Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are working with veterans to produce Shakespeare’s plays as a way of dealing with trauma and engaging with others.
Students and faculty in UW-Milwaukee's American Sign Language and interpreter training programs reach out to the hearing community with education and events celebrating deaf culture and history.
Admissions staff who are fluent in both Spanish and English are reaching out to potential students at their high schools, recruiting fairs and other events.
Courses in classics, mythology, Greek and Latin are attracting more students, thanks to renewed interest in a classical education and the influence of movies and television borrowing plots from Greek and Roman mythology.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's MFA in performing arts/dance helps working professional dancers enhance their credentials with an academic degree while continuing their careers.
UW-Milwaukee’s App Brewery and the Waukesha (Wisconsin) County Public Libraries have developed a free app called “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” that families can use to track the books they’re reading to their preschoolers.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee gives students the opportunity to study the Anishinaabe language spoken by the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa tribes.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the city’s Sojourner Family Peace Center have partnered to develop an app that discreetly and quickly gives those affected by domestic abuse an emergency connection to the help they need.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee journalism students took on an unusual research project during the spring semester – helping find the missing photos and stories of Wisconsin soldiers killed in Vietnam.
Robert Schneider, a professor at UW-Milwaukee who researches experience in sustainable transportation, explains how improved infrastructure, in-town redevelopment and changing attitudes are getting more people nationwide traveling on two wheels to get to work.
Two novel water-sensing technologies that offer low-cost, immediate protection from the threat of contaminated water supplies were developed at UWM and have subsequently been licensed to four water-related companies. The products came from collaborative research at the Water Equipment and Policy Center, which is helping Milwaukee snare its part of the $500 billion global freshwater technology market.
A medication commonly taken for Type II diabetes, which is being found in freshwater systems worldwide, has been shown to cause intersex in fish –male fish that produce eggs.
‘Luchadora’es una nueva obra teatral escrita por un miembro de la facultad de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), con raíces en Wisconsin y Texas.
Play tells a Latino family's story -- from Texas to Milwaukee -- as a young girl explores the history behind a wrestling mask.
A new center will advance the hunt for elusive gravitational waves in space using a unique method – monitoring changes in the arrival times of radio signals from pulsars, the universe’s most stable natural clocks.
Dressmaker Hedy Strnad vanished during the Holocaust. Now, people worldwide will be able to learn her story, thanks to a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Jewish Museum Milwaukee. The digital exhibit, the first developed by UWM’s Digital Humanities Lab, is at http://liblamp.uwm.edu/omeka/A/.
Using a Free Electron Laser (XFEL), a team of physicists has proven a method that makes it possible to find the atomic structure of proteins in action by producing “snapshots” of them with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. The experiment, done by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has opened the door to discovering nearly all protein structures – information vital to fields like, health, food, drug discovery and energy.
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