Features
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PhD Student Devrah Arndt Receives Prestigious Lindbergh Award
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (Sept. 20, 2011) — The Lindbergh Foundation announced today that Devrah Arndt, of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, School of Freshwater Sciences, in Milwaukee, Wisc. has been awarded a 2011 Lindbergh Grant in water conservation and health for her project entitled, “Evaluating the Short- and Long-term Effects of Manufactured Nanomaterials on Freshwater Ecosystems.”
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UWM names founding dean of the School of Freshwater Sciences
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Australian scientist David E. J. Garman, a specialist in water resources and pollution control, has been named as the founding dean of the graduate School of Freshwater Sciences at UWM.
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Meet the SFS Founding Dean candidates
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Meet our SFS Founding Dean finalist candidates.
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Students receive Dissertation Fellowship Awards
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Graduate students Marcia Silva and Dena Hammond-Weinberger have each received a 2011-2012 Dissertation Fellowship Award from the UWM Graduate School.
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UWM grad student interns at World Health Organization
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UWM graduate student Katie Gajeski has been awarded a prestigious WHO internship.
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Prestigious Knauss Fellowship awarded to SFS student
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UWM SFS student Joseph Fillingham has been awarded a 2011 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.
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Major gift to support a new Center for Water Policy
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A $2.6 million gift from Lynde Uihlein will support a new Center for Water Policy at UWM, university officials announced today.
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Lake Michigan's energy gauge
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UWM scientist Harvey Bootsma has been monitoring Lake Michigan’s vital signs for several years, by sampling from boats, diving, and, more recently, with equipment installed on the Lake Michigan high-speed ferry.
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UWM leads inquiry into Bay health
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UWM and several collaborating organizations were awarded more than $1.3 million to investigate the influence of land use and climate change on hypoxia in Lake Michigan’s Green Bay.
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Biology research gets a 'math intervention'
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Because new discoveries in biology increasingly involve quantitative analyses, the NSF is funding initiatives across the U.S., including one at UWM, that give undergraduates interdisciplinary exposure to math and biology.
