Climate Action Workshop

Learn about climate actions we can make as individuals and on organizational scales. Create your own climate action pledge, and learn ways to create a ripple effect of change on campus and in your community. Location: Architecture & Urban Planning …

Hydroponics Planting & Make Your Own Microgreens

Help plant the campus hydroponics system with new herbs and make your own “mini” microgreens kit to grow your own healthy and nutritious microgreens at home. Location: Union Station, near the Food Center & Pantry Stop by between 9:30 and …

Focus on Energy Challenge

Sign up for a free energy savings kit! By registering for your free Focus On Energy Kit, you also help UWM compete to win the statewide Higher Education Kit Challenge. Learn more by visiting the Focus on Energy Higher Education …

First Annual Campus Sustainability Awards

Join the UWM Office of Sustainability as we recognize Sustainability Superstar awardees, including students, faculty, staff and community members who embody sustainability values and help create a greener UWM. This year’s award ceremony features prestigious categories including: Student Sustainability Leader …

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink! Featuring the Surplus Pop-Up Shop

This event will feature UWM’s signature composting program, information about recycling at UWM and the popular Surplus Pop-Up Shop. UWM students, faculty, staff and the public can purchase surplus items (used furniture, artwork, supplies and more) for affordable prices. Surplus …

Green Up Volunteering

Join the UWM Office of Sustainability from 3-4:30 p.m. as we collect native plant seeds from the Lapham Hall Pollinator Garden to plant in new pollinator gardens on campus! Key information: Location: Lapham Hall Pollinator Gardens (Lapham Hall entrance facing …

QWERTYFest: Kleinsteuber Pizza Party

UWM English Prof. Jason Puskar and OnMilwaukee journalist and historian Bobby Tanzilo will kick off QWERTYFest 2025 with two talks at the location of the original Kleinsteuber’s machine shop, where the Milwaukee inventors of the QWERTY keyboard worked. Puskar will …

Book Talk: “Mountain Dharma,” by David DiValerio

“Mountain Dharma: Meditative Retreat and the Tibetan Ascetic Self” (Columbia University Press, 2025), by David DeValerio, is a study of a unique and defining feature of Tibetan Buddhism: the tradition of withdrawing to a cave or a cloister to meditate …

Asia in Conversation

A virtual conversation on Zoom that’s open to all. The focus is “Memory, Displacement, and Belonging: Immigration, Individual Memory, Collective History, and Filmmaking,” presented by Laj Pershad Waghray, director and producer for Red Crane Films, and Portia Cobb, a professor …