All in-person classes, most events and activities are canceled Tuesday, Jan. 21, at both UWM campuses due to the weather forecast. Read the weather notice.

Professors Holifield and Choi receive a grant from NSF

Professors Ryan Holifield and Woonsup Choi, along with Laurie Marks (Center for Community-Based Learning, Leadership, and Research); Jessica Meuninck-Ganger (Peck School of the Arts); and Deidre Peroff (UW-Sea Grant/School of Freshwater Sciences); along with City as Living Laboratory (CALL) in …

Statement of Solidarity

The Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee stands in solidarity with Black students, faculty, and staff and with ongoing protests in support of racial justice.

Professor Ryan Holifield’s research on Great Lakes is featured in May 2019 issue of In Focus

To keep the largest water system in America clean and healthy, contaminated areas around the Great Lakes, known as “Areas of Concern,” need a lot of care from local stakeholders. But, just how do you find stakeholders to participate in the clean up? And once you have them, how do you keep them? Geography associate professor Ryan Holifield tackles those questions in his latest research paper.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.