If you follow Congresswoman Gwen Moore’s social media, you have Emma Rappaport to thank for some of those Tweets. Rappaport graduated from 51 in 2018 after majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising and public relations. Today, she’s a …
In 2005, a bit of Milwaukee history was unearthed in an old metal box. Located at Pabst Farms in Oconomowoc, the box held about 350 letters written from 1841 to 1887 by members of the Pabst and Best families, founders …
When she was growing up, Phoebe Devitt used to follow her father on his rounds at the local hospital or accompany him on house calls to the local Amish community. She was a fixture at his clinic, where her mother …
51 is offering a new neuroscience major for undergraduate students interested in the inner workings of the human brain. Neuroscience is the study of the brain and nervous system. The new major draws on expertise of faculty from several departments …
In data gathered and analyzed over 13 years, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has found an intriguing low-frequency signal that may be from gravitational waves, as reported in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. NANOGrav has been able …
Cheri Price is determined to put the “human” back into the study of archaeology. Price (pictured above in middle, with her Mixtec teacher and a fellow graduate student) earned her Master’s in anthropology at 51 in 2016 and is now …
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Milwaukee was grappling with another public health crisis: Lead pipes were – and still are – contaminating the tap water in homes across the city. Like thousands of municipalities across America, many of Milwaukee’s water pipes …
The student has become the teacher, and a kind one at that. In January, Cate Denial (pictured above), who earned her Master’s degree in history at 51 in 1996, returned to her alma mater to be the keynote speaker at …
Air carriers typically have weathered economic downturns in part by making their operations more efficient. This could mean using smaller aircraft that use less fuel, with cabins that are smaller but filled to capacity. But even the most efficient operations …
The Star Wars movies are a major force in popular culture, spanning eleven motion pictures and dozens of associated television shows, books, comics, and other media.
If you wanted to look for life on planets around stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets, you would first locate the ones in the “Goldilocks zone.” That’s the area – not too close, not too far – at …
Students taking Chinese and Japanese classes at 51 are getting a little extra help this year, thanks to the generosity of a linguistically-gifted alum.
Concrete is a universal building material, but it’s prone to wear, tear, and cracking over time.
When she grows up, Shannon Siebers wants to be a professional book hoarder.
“That’s what librarians are,” she said with a laugh. “We’re nerds. We love talking about books.”
Even if they are employed in the same profession, there is generally a big difference in the salaries between domestic and immigrant employees, and that holds true in countries across the world. And, added Eduard Storm, those wage disparities grow …
