UW-Milwaukee

  1. UWM alum opens children’s bookstore focusing on people of color

    Photo of Ashley Valentine standing in Rooted MKE, her bookstore and tutoring center that focuses on the needs of Black, Indigenous and other people of color. “Books were kind of a haven for me. Now that I think about it, it’s sad. I was such an avid reader and had a love for reading, but I didn’t know there were books with characters who looked like me. I didn’t think people like me were capable of the things I was reading about.” (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)

    November 30, 2022

    When Ashley Valentine was a child, she loved to read but was disappointed that few of the characters in books looked like her. “Books were kind of a haven for me,” said Valentine, a UWM alumna who just opened her own bookstore and tutoring center, Rooted MKE, focusing the needs of Black, Indigenous and other people […]

  2. New UWM program aims to inspire MPS students in STEM fields and help community

    Photo of Mo Zell, interim dean of UWM's School of Architecture and Urban Planning, talking to students, their families and community members during a ribbon-cutting ceremony. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)

    November 7, 2022

    Visions of a vegetable harvest sprouted in Larry Keaton’s head as he marveled at the additions to his neighborhood’s community garden. Two new sturdy 10-by-15 foot wood structures with folding benches offered a cool place for gardeners to take a break and share lunch with friends. Large rain barrels stored rainwater. Solar panels mounted atop […]

  3. UWM research: Why estrogen decreases the risk of Alzheimer’s in some menopausal women, but not others

    Photo of Karyn Frick (seated) and members of her lab – Miranda Schwabe (from left), Gustavo Dalto Barroso Machado, Sarah Beamish and Farah Abdelazim – who have recently published research that shows why some women with Alzheimer’s disease benefit from taking estrogen therapy, while others do not. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)

    November 1, 2022

    The hormone estrogen is essential for proper functioning of memory, but it declines when women reach menopause, putting them at a higher risk than men of developing Alzheimer’s disease. However, studies of estrogen therapy show the hormone improves brain function in some menopausal women, but not others. Working from previous research on late-stage Alzheimer’s, a […]

  4. UWM’s new business incubator offers free help for maturing startups

    Photo of UWM partners Brian Thompson of the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center (from left) and Lubar College Dean Kaushal Chari discussing training for startups with Matthew Friedel (right), director of the new Business Innovation Incubator that is guiding 10 startups beginning this year. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)

    September 30, 2022

    “One of most difficult things you can decide to do, I think, is to start a business,” said Steve Glynn, CEO of the four-year-old startup Experience Milwaukee. “There’s a lot of trust that has to be built.” Glynn hopes to grow his venture, which produces two podcasts about the city, by joining a new business […]

  5. UWM soccer star fulfills dream with pro contract in Italy

    Photo of Elaina LaMacchia (in red) making a save during a UWM match. LaMacchia led the nation in goals-against average in 2021. (Milwaukee Athletics photo)

    September 23, 2022

    One of the best women’s soccer players in UWM history continued her career in one of history’s great soccer nations. Elaina LaMacchia signed a professional contract with Pink Bari CF, which spent its most recent season playing in Italy’s second-tier national league. “It’s always been a dream of mine to play in Italy,” said LaMacchia, […]

  6. New simulation center ready to train next generation of nurses at UW-Milwaukee

    Photo of Melissa Melcher (left), clinical assistant professor, and Bayan Alqam, teaching assistant and PhD nursing student, check a manikin in the Clinical Skills Lab at the new UWM James and Yvonne Ziemer Clinical Simulation Center. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)

    September 7, 2022

    Hidden behind the red brick exterior of a building in UW-Milwaukee’s Northwest Quadrant, a professional-grade nursing facility designed with clean lines and pale Panther gold paint is where the next generation of health care professionals will learn. Starting in Fall 2022, nursing students at UW-Milwaukee, UWM at Waukesha and UW-Parkside will gain hands-on work experience […]

  7. New effort aims to make UWM a premier destination for experiential learning

    Photo of UWM student Ebenezer Keane-Rudolph working with students at Riverside Elementary School in 2019. Student teaching is one kind of experiential learning available to students. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)

    August 19, 2022

    Academics plus hands-on experience make an unbeatable combination in the job market. That’s why UWM is expanding opportunities for students to incorporate experiential learning into their university education. The new focus is an outgrowth of the university’s 2030 plan. One key part of that plan is to make the university more student-centric while being responsive to local […]

  8. UWM research: Microplastics pass through fish, but do they cause harm?

    Photo of Dong-Fang Deng (left), professor of freshwater sciences, and undergraduate Emma Kraco wrestling with some adult yellow perch in the lab where they research ways to improve the diet of farm-raised fish. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)

    August 12, 2022

    When Dong-Fang Deng and her students make feed for the fish they raise at UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, they often use ground fishmeal – dried fish parts from fisheries or wild catch – as the protein source. It’s possible to find microplastics in commercial fish food, she said, because the wild fish that end […]

  9. UWM research: What the mechanical forces behind protein folding can tell us about metastatic cancer

    Photo of Ionel Popa, UWM professor of physics, demonstrating the magnetic tweezers built by his lab members to measure the mechanical forces that act on proteins as they fold and refold. Proteins are large molecules that carry out the body’s functions required for good health. In back is research assistant Sabita Sharma. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)

    August 1, 2022

    Talin is a protein that controls cellular attachment and movement, but its malfunctioning also allows cancer cells to spread. DCL1 is a tumor-suppressing protein. But scientists don’t fully understand how either protein works – or what happens when they don’t work the way they should. One thing scientists do know: When it is present in a cell, […]

  10. UW-Milwaukee researchers seek ways to abate warm-weather algae problem

    Photo of Todd Miller working with a beaker that contains Nostoc, a cyanobacteria isolated from Lake Superior that produces a novel neurotoxin. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)

    July 26, 2022

    Summer brings warm weather, sunshine and time to enjoy Wisconsin’s beautiful waters. Unfortunately, it can also bring potentially toxic blue green algae resulting from the combination of sunshine and chemicals like phosphorus and nitrogen running into the water from farms and roadways. These conditions create algal blooms that can result in toxins harmful to humans […]

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