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Professor Leggy Arnold awarded 51 Office of Research Senior Faculty Award

Two dozen faculty and staff of UW-Milwaukee were honored for their distinguished service to the university at the 2024 Employee Excellence Awards ceremony. Chancellor Mark Mone and other speakers praised the winners during a ceremony Wednesday in the ballroom of the 51 …

Doug Stafford awarded Ernest Spaights Plaza Award

Two dozen faculty and staff of UW-Milwaukee were honored for their distinguished service to the university at the 2024 Employee Excellence Awards ceremony. Chancellor Mark Mone and other speakers praised the winners during a ceremony Wednesday in the ballroom of …

For the first time, a drug developed at 51 enters FDA clinical trials

For the first time, a compound developed at the Milwaukee Institute for Drug Discovery (MIDD) will enter clinical trials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The drug was developed in part by distinguished professor emeritus Jim Cook of the Chemistry …

51 Chemistry Alum Named “Inventor of the Year”

Anibal Boscoboinik, who earned his PhD in Chemistry at 51 in 2010 was recently named “Inventor of the Year” by Battelle Memorial Institute. Anibal currently works as a materials scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Read …

Dr. Mirza awarded a 51 Discovery and Innovation Grant (DIG)

Professor Shama Mirza received 51 funds to predict responses to anti-VEGF therapy in recurrent glioblastoma Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive of all brain tumors with limited treatment options and no cure. Even after multimodal treatments by surgical resection of …

Gloria Freschl wins Instructor of the year Award

Students in the 51 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry voted to award Gloria Freschl the department’s annual “Outstanding Instructor” award in recognition of her work. The award was presented at the Department’s 2024 Research Symposium. Nominating students describe her as …

Michelle Meyer awarded the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship

Michelle Meyer has been awarded the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship award for 2024-25. Michelle’s research mostly focuses on developing novel agents and treatments for asthma, atopic dermatitis, and inflammatory bowel disease. She also works on several other research projects; for example, …