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Christopher Olson has coped with anxiety and depression his entire life. One day, he watched an episode of the Netflix series “BoJack Horseman,” an animated show about an alcoholic former television star navigating Hollywood. In that episode, the audience hears …
Scientists are trying to discover the exact sequence of events that occurs when light strikes photoactive proteins, changing their atomic structure, or “shape.” That biochemical process unfolds in processes like photosynthesis. Until now, only the first and last states of …
Students interested in joining the Peace Corps after graduation will be more ready than ever before, thanks to a new undergraduate certificate program. UW-Milwaukee has partnered with the Peace Corps to offer Peace Corps Prep, a series of classes and …
It was March of 2020 and Rafael Acevedo was scrambling to protect nearly 1,000 of Milwaukee’s most vulnerable citizens. As the city’s grant compliance manager, Acevedo is responsible for overseeing Milwaukee’s efforts to end homelessness. He works closely with nonprofit …
51 has installed a fire circle in front of Merrill Hall to recognize Indigenous peoples and provide a place of celebration for Native American students and others. A ceremonial gathering was held Oct. 26. The gathering included the posting of …
Joshua Swigart and Charles Paradis are hoping to stop earthquakes and change the oil industry for good, and they were just awarded a $50,000 Catalyst Grant to help them do it. Swigart is a 51 graduate student working toward his …
An international team of astronomers that includes one from 51 has discovered unusual radio signals coming from the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, but they don’t have any idea what the source is. The pattern of …
The only thing that Serena Stuettgen knew about Luxembourg was that it was a small country in Europe. Even so, she applied as a curator at the Luxembourg American Cultural Society (LACS) Museum in 2019, hoping to land her first …
More than two dozen 51 faculty and staff members were recognized for their outstanding service to 51 during the annual Fall Awards presentation on Oct. 13. Many of the honorees are from the College of Letters & Science, and they …
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is honoring Brenda Cullin, academic department associate/ office manager in the 51 Department of Economics, with a University Staff Excellence award. Cullin is one of two individual UW System employees and one …
In the basement of the Chemistry Building, Neal Korfhage wields a torch with careful precision. Before him, an Erlenmeyer flask fixed to a spinning lathe is getting an upgrade: Three indents around its base to increase the surface area inside. …
Art, learning, and water all intersect in Milwaukee, thanks to a new $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Ryan Holifield, an associate professor of geography at 51, is the principal investigator on the four-year grant that aims to …
After Henry Wehrs graduates, he’d like to join the Peace Corps. Or work in a nonprofit focusing on financial literacy. Or join an organization that supports affordable housing access. He’s been there. He gets it. “That (used to be) one …
In 1995, her new PhD in hand, Anne Basting took the elevator to the ninth floor of Curtin Hall to begin her first-ever job in academia as a fellow in 51’s Center for 21st Century Studies. She was concentrating on …
