Center for Water Policy Director Melissa Scanlan has announced the Center will have a Journalist in Residence for the next two years. Dan Egan, an environmental journalist and author of the “Death and Life of the Great Lakes,” has been… Read More

Marcia Silva, associate scientist and facility manager of UWM’s Water Technology Accelerator, received three awards for work at the accelerator at the recent UWM Research Foundation Awards. The recognition included one patent award and two license agreements. Silva’s lab also… Read More

Dr. Russell Cuhel, senior scientist in the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has won the 2021 Margalef Award for Excellence in Education. The award honors excellence in teaching and mentoring in the fields of limnology and… Read More

We are pleased to introduce the Friends of Water Scholarship for new freshmen and transfer students majoring in Freshwater Sciences. These $500 awards are for full-time undergraduate students starting in Fall 2021. In addition, if you are a first-generation student,… Read More

The School of Freshwater Sciences has created a freshwater sciences minor open to current and incoming University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee undergraduate students. The new, 18-credit program includes both required foundational courses and a range of electives that will allow students to… Read More

Each semester, our Colloquia in Freshwater Sciences offer students, faculty, water professionals and members of the public the chance to learn and discuss key water topics. For the spring semester, set aside the noon hour on most Thursday afternoons to… Read More

Please join us in welcoming environmental law professor Melissa Scanlan as the new director of the Center for Water Policy. Professor Scanlan, the School of Freshwater Sciences’ newest faculty member, is also the Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair in Water… Read More

Each season, the School of Freshwater Sciences deploys several buoys around Lake Michigan to collect data used by a range of groups, including scientists, anglers and boaters. If you use the buoy data, we’d like to hear from you. We… Read More

A collaborative effort, which includes School of Freshwater Sciences professor Harvey Bootsma’s team, has announced an impressive decrease in the density of invasive quagga mussels at a test site in Lake Michigan. The experiment also led to a notable decrease… Read More

An online dashboard monitoring community levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is now live. The project is a collaborative, statewide effort, with School of Freshwater Sciences professor Sandra McLellan playing a key role, to detect levels of the… Read More