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During Antarctica’s summer, UW-Milwaukee geologists Erik Gulbranson and John Isbell climbed the McIntyre Promontory’s frozen slopes in the Transantarctic Mountains. High above the ice fields, they combed the mountain’s gray rocks for fossils from the continent’s green, forested past. By the trip’s end, the geologists had found fossil fragments of 13 trees. The discovered fossils reveal that the trees are over 260 million years old, meaning that this forest grew at the end of the Permian Period, before the first dinosaurs. “People have known about the fossils in Antarctica since the 1910-12 Robert Falcon Scott expedition,” said Gulbranson, a...

Rebecca Neumann specializes in international finance and macroeconomics, but she also devotes a lot of time to an issue that hits closer to home: preparing students for a life of financial security. Neumann, an associate professor of economics, designed and teaches “The Economics of Personal Finance,” a one-credit, seven-week short course that gives UWM students the basic skills they need to come to grips with their financial situation and, more importantly, to plan for their futures. More than 3,100 students have taken the course so far. “We teach the fundamental concepts and techniques of personal finance,” Neumann says. “Students...

Latino Arts, Inc. announced its upcoming art exhibit titled, “Here We Make Our Home,” which aims to foster an environment for respectful dialogue around journey and immigration stories. The Here We Make Our Home exhibit invites teachers and students to explore the visual, poetic, and metaphoric imagery of a birdhouse. Students involved will create a unique piece of art that tells their personal journey story possessed through family heritage or personal experience. Birdhouses were selected as the vehicle for storytelling to represent the idea of home, settlement and migration. This exhibition employed best practices learned through the Advancing Literacy...

The Milwaukee Bucks are expanding Wisconsin NBA Math Hoops to schools and youth across Wisconsin through its new community partnership with GE Healthcare. Bucks Math Hoops is a fast-paced basketball-based educational board game and mobile app that teaches students fundamental math skills through the basketball statistics of their favorite NBA and WNBA players. Wisconsin NBA Math Hoops powered by GE Healthcare follows a 10-16-week curriculum and is built to engage 4-8th grade students while developing fundamental math skills through the game of basketball. The tip-off for this season’s Wisconsin NBA Math Hoops took place at MPS 53rd Street School...

Mayor Tom Barrett and Health Commissioner Bevan K. Baker announced an award of $100,000 from Bader Philanthropies Inc. to the City of Milwaukee Health Department Office of Violence Prevention on November 19. The funding has been awarded to support the 2018 launch of Ceasefire Milwaukee, a violence interruption program called for in Milwaukee’s Blueprint for Peace, the citywide violence prevention plan officially released Friday. “I am thrilled to announce that Bader Philanthropies is continuing its great support of the Milwaukee community through this grant,” said Mayor Tom Barrett. “I thank Bader for stepping forward to assure that this new,...

Milwaukee PBS announced that some of its digital subchannels are changing frequencies on January 8, 2018 and viewers who watch TV free with an over the air antenna will need to rescan their TVs to continue watching these stations. Viewers do not need to purchase new equipment or services, and those who watch through a cable or satellite service do not need to rescan. Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) held a nation-wide spectrum auction of television station bandwidths, to expand wireless services in order to meet the increasing needs for faster and higher capacity mobile broadband services. Milwaukee...