Dear Colleagues,
I share additional information with you on the Doors Open Milwaukee event taking place this weekend:
Doors Open Milwaukee
This coming weekend (September 17 and 18) is Doors Open Milwaukee, a very family-friendly, intellectually stimulating event taking place throughout Milwaukee. The following UWM facilities are participating in Doors Open Milwaukee:
UWM School of Freshwater Sciences
Saturday 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m. (last admittance 4:45 p.m.)
The School of Freshwater Sciences is participating, emphasizing water-related activities. Together with the Harbor District design group and an exhibition by the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, everything at SFS is covered, from Alewife to Zebra mussels. An array of experts will be providing excellent, often hands-on glimpses into the scientific life of a major state and national investment, the Great Lakes Research Facility. So come on down to the east end of Greenfield Avenue on Saturday afternoon! Grab a Water Passport and visit water-appropriate locations within the city. You could win a prize for your diligence, beyond learning about our great WATER HUB!
UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (last admittance 4:45 p.m.)
The School of Architecture and Urban Planning building provides classroom, office, and studio spaces for faculty and students in Architecture and Urban Planning. Experience an interactive exploration of important planning issues in Milwaukee and the southeast Wisconsin region, including the future of transportation, the location of affordable housing nearby to family supporting jobs, economic and cultural separation and segregation, and neighborhood-based initiatives toward economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Professional planners, faculty, and students will display maps and other information and facilitate conversations with participants to hear their ideas for addressing these and other critical issues about places and spaces in our community.
UWM / EMS – College of Engineering & Applied Science
Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science building serves 2,000 engineering students, 400 at the graduate level. 3D print your kinetic energy; tour our foundry. A rare site in a US university, it serves as training ground for Materials Engineers developing new and sustainable materials for everything including self-healing metals used in the automotive markets. Visit Wisconsin’s largest structural testing facility where performance testing is made on materials, components and systems for buildings, bridges, factories, machinery, automotive, aerospace, and other structures. There’s more displays and interactive experiences from Engineering and Computer Science researchers in this rare behind the scenes look at one of the areas best-kept secrets.
UWM Manfred Olson Planetarium FAMILY PASSPORT SITE
Saturday 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m. (last admittance 4:30 p.m.)
This stellar gem on the UWM campus is celebrating its 50th anniversary! The UWM Planetarium theater can hold 68 people in concentric comfortable seats the better to enjoy the stars during our live programs. These intimate FREE tours of the sky with NASA Astronomy Ambassador, Jean Creighton, will last 25 minutes starting every half hour from 1:30 pm with the last show starting at 4:30 pm. She can share with you the myth of Pegasus. Meet outside the planetarium doors, Physics 139.
UWM University Services Research Building
Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
UW-Milwaukee’s USR (University Service and Research) Building, 115 East Reindl Way (1st and Capitol), served as home for Square D and Reindl Bindery before UWM’s 2005 purchase. Today, a field of solar panels greets visitors and a 100-foot-high, 10-kilowatt wind turbine stands tall dotting the sky as a sign of a revolutionary changes taking place through cutting-edge, impactful engineering research at USR — research that engages students as they are brought up to be the next generation of Milwaukee Engineers in fields such as energy to biomechanics. The labs in Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems Center are where researchers are working to make energy sources like natural gas, solar cells and even wind turbines more cost-efficient and ensuring compatibility with the nation’s electrical grid. Visitors will also see where researchers use a variety of high-tech equipment to study body mechanics and worker safety, developing new ways of working to ensure worker safety.
UWM Golda Meir Library
Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Three major special collections programs located in the UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library will showcase rare and fascinating treasures. The internationally-renowned American Geographical Society Library, established in the early 1850s to promote the collection and diffusion of cartographic information, is one of the premier collections of its kind in North American, containing over 1.3 million items dating from 1452, including maps, atlases, globes, books, periodicals, and photographs. The UWM Archives features the history of the Milwaukee Region. Explore unique collections that tell the story of Milwaukee from the 1800s to the present, including the city’s civil rights struggles, brewing history, and diverse ethnic populations. Special Collections holds over 70,000 printed item from the 15th century to the present, covering a wide range of disciplines and topics.
Take care,
Johannes
Johannes Britz
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs