Editor’s note: Our Posts from the Community feature is a platform for community announcements and event postings. If you have a post to be considered, send it to info@milwaukeenns.org or submit it directly. More than 800 student volunteers from Milwaukee Area Technical College, Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin will come together Saturday, Nov. […]
Tobacco is marketed more heavily in Milwaukee’s minority neighborhoods
Tobacco products in Milwaukee are more aggressively marketed in stores in African-American and Latino neighborhoods than in white ones, according to a study led by a public health researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
An evening with Raoul Peck: Conversations on identity, history, race and Baldwin
The Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) welcomes Raoul Peck, award winning film director and writer, for a thought provoking and insightful discussion of his latest film, I Am Not Your Negro.
Researchers find air mattresses present a growing safety risk to infants, recommend changes
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Georgia have found that as air mattresses become increasingly popular, the inflatable beds place infants at great risk for sleep-related death.
UWM Muslim Student Association brings Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to speak March 2
Basketball legend turned author and political activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will give a speech and take questions March 2 at the Milwaukee Theatre as the guest of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Distinguished Lecture Series and the Muslim Student Association.
UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Schools partnership receives $2.4 million grant
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee Public Schools have received a $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve the teaching of mathematics and science in Milwaukee public high schools. The five-year project, the Milwaukee Master Teacher Partnership, will run from fall 2016 to summer 2021. The partnership will engage 25 teachers with master’s […]
