2024 Melvin and Lois Lurie Student Prize 

Anna Pistone won the Melving and Lois Lurie Student Prize.  With a perfect 4.0, Anna was credited for bringing cooperation and high enthusiasm to all her classes. Her positive attitude and easy relations with classmates, combined with her sharp insight made for great in-class learning for all.  Anna expressed her appreciation and thanks that her MHRLR degree brought her great mentors and dear friends as well as a career. 

Consider a donation to the Melvin Lurie Memorial Fund to support the MHRLR program such as student scholarships and faculty support as well as the Melvin Lurie Award Ceremony. 

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.