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

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

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

It takes a village to map a giant “fish tank.” Working closely with other members of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee family and additional organizations, School of Freshwater Sciences students and faculty members have created stunning maps which reveal, for the… Read More

In recognition of a remarkable career, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences has established and endowed the Jerry L. Kaster Scholarship Fund. The fund will support both graduate and undergraduate student presentations at professional conferences. For more than… Read More

A just-released documentary follows two University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee alumni as they trek across our state to raise awareness of the need to protect the Great Lakes. The Worth of Water: A Great Lakes Story features faculty and students from the… Read More