UWM Today

For people under the age of 46, the most likely cause of death is trauma. In addition to the tremendous personal loss that results from trauma, the financial costs to society are staggering. Nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars is lost each year because of the health care costs and lost productivity. On June 20, UW-Milwaukee is sponsoring a conference that will focus on the causes and solutions to the problems that result from traumatic experiences. On this edition of UWM Today, we meet

UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone discusses the recent spring graduation as well as the accreditation from the Council on Education in Public Health for the Zilber School of Public Health at UWM. Chancellor Mone also reviews some of the highlights of the past academic year.

When we hear stories about climate change, we often think about how temperatures have increased on our planet over the past 50 or 100 years. But if you are a geoscientist, your research could take you much farther back in earth’s history. Instead of studying the past one, two, or 300 years of data, you could be looking at what the world was like two or three hundred million years ago. What lessons can we learn from that research? On this edition of UWM Today , we’re going to try to answer that

Recently, there has been a big increase in the price of oil on the world market. For most of us, we see the effects at the gas pump with prices rising for consumers. But the impact of higher energy costs is also causing great concern for manufacturers. Here in Wisconsin with manufacturing accounting for a large part of our economy, every time energy prices go up, profits and employment are at risk. So energy conservation becomes critical. On this edition of UWM Today , we are going to talk about

Last year, nearly 500 people died in Milwaukee County as a result of overdosing on opioids. It is part of a national epidemic of opioid deaths that continue to impact communities everyday. Here in Milwaukee, two UWM researchers are taking a close look at the problem. They are trying to identify common themes or patterns in the overdoses and are studying the impact the overdoses have on families, particularly children. UWM Today talks with Melinda Kavanaugh, an assistant professor of social work,

With Wisconsin’s largest nursing education program, nursing students from UWM make their presence known throughout the state, providing care at hospitals and other health facilities. But the reach of UWM’s nursing program does not end at the state’s borders. On this edition o f UWM Today , we’re going to meet an associate professor in UWM’s College of Nursing who has taken her expertise thousands of miles to the African continent. Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu was born in the country of Malawi where

Eve Hall, a member of the UW Board of Regents, joins UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone to discuss the role that UWM plays in the UW System and the state. They also discuss how restructuring UW colleges and extension can better serve students in the city and region as well as how the Higher Education Regional Alliance is leveraging the resources of higher education institutions to help businesses get the talent they need.

If you drive by UW-Milwaukee’s east side campus these days, you will see a swarm of construction workers building the foundation for the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center on the corner of Kenwood and Maryland Avenues. The building – made possible by a generous gift from Shel and Mary Ann Lubar – will be the first of its kind in Wisconsin. But even before the building opens, UWM already has in place a series of programs that are helping students learn how to think like entrepreneurs, and they don’t

If you listen to WUWM, you hear regular weather updates from the Innovative Weather service. On this edition of UWM Today , we’re going to take you behind the scenes to meet the people who run Innovative Weather. It’s a unique service established by the academic team teaching the rigorous courses that are the foundation for weather forecasting and staffed by some of UWM’s brightest students. Joining us in the studio is Clark Evans, associate professor of atmospheric sciences, and Mike Westendorf

One of my favorite rides – either by bike or car – is along Milwaukee’s incredible lakefront. While there are a lot of rivers and inland lakes in our state, none of them rival the majesty of Lake Michigan. While the sight of miles of open water never grows old, hidden from our view is what is going on under the surface. On this edition of UWM Today , we are going to learn about a fascinating research project that will give us a much better idea of the habitats of aquatic life in the lake and