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We’re in the midst of ethnic festival season in Milwaukee. Events such as Polish Fest, German Fest, and Festa Italiana have already passed. Many are…

The humble, hardy gray jay is poised to become a national symbol, but that's definitely controversial among fans of the Canada goose and the common loon. Also the snowy owl and black-capped chickadee.

Erdrich's novel — about a Chippewa tribal elder working as a night watchman while battling government efforts to the tribe's treaties and land ownership rights — was based on her own grandfather.

Sports teams in Killingly, Conn. are the Redmen again. The school district changed the name last year at the recommendation of local Native Americans. The school board recently reversed the decision.

A thrift shopper from picked up the vase at a store near her home in Washington, D.C. It wasn't until she went to Mexico that she realized she might have a piece of history sitting on her shelf.

Look at a map of Milwaukee and you'll find traces of the waves of immigration to our city: From Yankee Hill to Schlitz and Pabst and the quintessential "Polish flat."

The Biden administration's efforts to restrict U.S. high-tech investment in China may serve to validate China's long-standing obsession with the need to be self-reliant in tech and other areas.

The season of shopping is upon us, and retailers and marketers are bombarding us with messages about purchasing. The average person is exposed to more than 4,500 commercial messages every day. So what is it about an ad – whether it’s traditional or digital – that stops us in our tracks? And what features of advertising actually lead us to buy? Insights are coming from a tsunami of data provided by buyers themselves, thanks to digital advertising and social media. On this episode of Curious Campus, we talk with Purush Papatla, a professor of marketing at UWM, about how social and data scientists are mining this sea of information to uncover the secrets of consumer behavior.

At 5:45 a.m. on the morning of my last day in Detroit, I groggily emerge onto the street outside the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel.I love cities in the dawn…

Geraud Blanks has always been willing to push boundaries — from his early days at UWM leading the student organization SCOPE to his work as chief innovation officer at Milwaukee Film.