May 2018

30th Annual Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize

The 30th annual Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize was presented to Mary Griefenkamp. Mary earned her MHRLR degree 28 years after her UWM B.A. in History. It followed the realization that after twenty years in human resources she needed the graduate …

20th Annual Labor Management Cooperation Prize

The 20th Annual Melvin Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize was jointly given to the Milwaukee Bucks and the Alliance for Good Jobs. These partners signed a community benefits agreement with remarkable scope involving not just construction jobs, but on-going jobs in …

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.