UW-Milwaukee

May 27, 2021

Imagine being 6 years old, blind, on the autism spectrum and nonverbal. That’s Alex, a child who needs a well-designed environment to learn and thrive. In response to that challenge, UWM architecture student Roe Jing Draus designed a space for Alex, who is imaginary but reflects the challenges that many children and adults face in […]

May 13, 2021

Darian Dixon spent his childhood nights staring at the glowing stars and planets adorning the walls and ceiling of his small bedroom. But weighed down by his circumstances on Earth, young Darian wondered if he’d ever get much closer to space than that. “I was a poor Black boy with an uncertain future in a […]

May 11, 2021

When water rises in the 900-square-mile Milwaukee River watershed, it rushes downstream to the city at the basin’s lower end. With the rise in severe storms driven by climate change, urban flooding is the costly result. A new study by two UWM researchers shows that restoration of an animal that Wisconsin was known for 300 years […]

April 27, 2021

Between 35,000 and 40,000 years ago, Lake Michigan’s geography looked drastically different. Much of its present-day shoreline was made up of marshes and bogs. Student researchers are studying fossils deposited during that time to learn more about the area’s ecosystems. “It’s like stepping back in time,” Mikayla Walker, a junior majoring in geology, said of […]

April 7, 2021

Emma Kraco was always interested in biological sciences in elementary and high school. “I loved looking for bugs, looking at tiny things up close. It just made sense to get interested in water, especially fresh water. It’s absolutely teeming with life all the time.” In her teens, her interests led to a job in aquaculture, […]

March 26, 2021

If it takes beer to get people interested in history, that’s fine. That’s the view of John Harry, a history graduate student who has focused his research on beer and Black capitalism. In his early 30s, Harry decided he wanted to take his life in a different direction. He had an undergraduate degree in communications […]

March 19, 2021

Wisconsin is 700 miles from an ocean coastline, but the state is home to numerous high school students with award-winning knowledge of oceanography. That’s in part due to the efforts of the Lake Sturgeon Bowl, an academic quiz competition that was hosted by the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences March 6 and 7. In 2001, the Great […]

March 7, 2021

A recent UWM graduate is being honored as the top Army ROTC cadet in the nation. Douglas Machkovech, who graduated in December 2020, is the first-ever member of the Golden Eagle Battalion to receive this honor, according to Lt. Col. Ioannis Kiriazis, professor of military science at Marquette. The Golden Eagle Battalion, which is based at Marquette, […]

February 22, 2021

Deborah Blanks has turned a project she started for her son in grade school into a Black history app that will launch Feb. 17. It’s free and will be available in the Apple store, through Google and on the web. Blanks, who earned her doctorate in urban studies from UWM, created the “Blackistory” app, with help […]

December 16, 2020

Four years in the making, a unique set of maps that show what lies under the water’s surface in the Milwaukee harbor is now available both online and on signage posted at two outdoor locations near the shore. The maps are guiding current restoration efforts that could help get the city’s harbor removed from the U.S. […]