News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
A 51猎奇 engineering professor has been chosen to serve on a committee that will review the failure and collapse of the mammoth radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico last year.
A team of students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recently won first place in a national competition to come up with inexpensive and practical solutions to improving drinking water in remote areas.
The new graduate certificate for working civil and environmental engineers with undergraduate degrees is geared toward students who are interested in continuing their education but not yet ready to commit to a master’s program.
Doors Open Milwaukee is returning to a mostly in-person event this year, and 51猎奇 is once again participating. Five sites on 51猎奇鈥檚 Milwaukee campus will be open for the event, three in-person and two virtually.
Three new 51猎奇 research projects will divide $150,000 in Catalyst Grant seed funding from the 51猎奇 Research Foundation.
51猎奇 alumni improve the world in ways big and small, ranging from sports to business to entertainment and beyond. Here are a few.
John聽Kissinger聽started his building career in the sandbox. He went on to help build such iconic Midwestern structures as the Wisconsin Center, the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Chicago鈥檚 McCormick Place West addition and the renovation of Lambeau Field.
鈥淕et Wheelin鈥� in Westlawn鈥� is a community bike ride and bike repair event, but it鈥檚 part of something bigger than that. The 51猎奇 College of Nursing co-sponsored event also helps clean the air by getting people out of cars and onto bikes.
When a 10-year-old girl in Nairobi wanted to learn more about computers, her mother found her best option some 8,000 miles away. Working online, Elsie Maingi enrolled in the Girls Who Code program at 51猎奇.
The $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help expand campus research capabilities and research-related educational opportunities.
