New math research opportunity trains mentors and mentees alike

UW-Milwaukee has a phenomenal undergraduate research program where students can learn from faculty and graduate student mentors. But how does a graduate student learn how to be a mentor? A new program in the Mathematical Sciences Department aims to educate …

Department Update

UWM hosts GIS Day The GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Council hosted GIS Day @UWM at the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) on Nov. 21. One hundred people attended the keynote event, a panel on ‘Careers in GIS’ featuring four UWM alumni who offered advice for …

What can you do with an urban studies major?

Every year, graduates from the College of Letters & Science enter the workforce and begin to contribute thousands of dollars to their local, state, and national economies. They bring the skills and knowledge they gained at UW-Milwaukee to their jobs, …

A family philosophy at UWM

Professor Joshua Spencer had an unusual student in his “Philosophy 358: Action, Will, and Freedom” class this semester: His mother. Spencer has frequently welcomed senior auditors in his classes over his years at UWM. Wisconsin residents who are 60 years …

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.