UWM honors Avdeev with award recognizing his public service

Congratulations to Ilya Avdeev, who was selected by the university to receive the 2023 UWM Faculty Distinguished Public Service Award. Avdeev is director of innovation at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and affiliated faculty member at …

College welcomes Science Olympians from across Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Science State Olympiad State Championship drew more than 1,200 high school and middle school students to UWM April 1. Close to 40% of students and their families arrived a day early to tour campus, visit research labs, sit …

Transportation symposium updates 150 professionals on trends, developments in WI

Close to 150 people from across the transportation landscape recently attended the 2022 Southeast Wisconsin Transportation Symposium, held at UWM and co-hosted by UWM’s Institute of Physical Infrastructure and Transportation (IPIT) and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT). Twenty-four speakers—representing …

New event welcomes engineering, computer science students to college

More than 500 students, faculty and staff took part in the college’s Fall Welcome Fest on Sept. 22. The lively new event aimed to help students meet faculty in their home departments, discover student organizations related to their interests, learn …

Two UWM teams flung their flying machines in Flugtag 2022

What a wondrous event to behold on a recent Saturday afternoon in July at Veterans Park along lovely Lake Michigan: the 50th running of Flugtag (“flying day”) brought for the first time to Milwaukee by organizers Red Bull. Thirty-four teams …