You can never learn enough about what history has to teach you. That’s why 73-year-old history graduate student Clayborn Benson, who leads the Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum, is still educating himself and others. “Mentally I wasn’t ready before, …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Josh Rosenberg was eating Thai food on his couch when he won an Oscar. The award, in the “Best Short Documentary” category, was for Breakwater Studio’s film “The Queen of Basketball.” Rosenberg …
Millenia ago, before the pyramids were built, before the development of pottery, before mammoths and mastodons went extinct, children were splashing in puddles on the shores of paleo-lake Otero in the Tularosa Basin. Nearby, a mother walked along the shore, …
Samantha Danen is a bit of a beer nerd. She began homebrewing while she majored in art history at UWM, and fell in love. But when she tried to get a job in the craft beer industry, Danen found herself …
From “Star Trek” to the SETI program, humanity loves to speculate on a burning question: Is there alien life somewhere out there in the vast reaches of the universe? For Dirk Schulze-Makuch, the question isn’t so speculative: It’s his job. …
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is a pioneering sort of place. Nestled right on the California coastline – the building has decks that stretch out over Monterey Bay itself – the aquarium was the first institution to build a living kelp …
Ryan Sorenson’s mother gives good advice. “Growing up, my mom always said, ‘Don’t sit on the sidelines and complain. Get in the game and make a difference,” he recalled from his desk in the mayor’s office in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. “I …
After completing my Urban Geography BA in 2018, I launched an Instagram account called “The Wisconsinista” that combined my passion for tourism with my knowledge of Wisconsin and its geography, both environmental and cultural. Through sharing travel guides, hikes, tips, …
You’ve probably heard his voice over the airwaves during his morning show on WTMJ Radio. If not, you probably watched him comfort a grieving city in the aftermath of the 2012 Sikh temple shooting. And if you were at UWM …
On the straight-edged corner of Becher and 1st Street lies the Twisted Path Distillery. The front doors open into a tasting room with scattered tables, a polished bar, and racks upon racks of flavored spirits. Beyond the tasting room, owner …
It was March of 2020 and Rafael Acevedo was scrambling to protect nearly 1,000 of Milwaukee’s most vulnerable citizens. As the city’s grant compliance manager, Acevedo is responsible for overseeing Milwaukee’s efforts to end homelessness. He works closely with nonprofit …
The only thing that Serena Stuettgen knew about Luxembourg was that it was a small country in Europe. Even so, she applied as a curator at the Luxembourg American Cultural Society (LACS) Museum in 2019, hoping to land her first …
Note: All links below go to external sites. When Derrick Jackson was 10 years old, he went to visit his grandparents in DeKalb, Mississippi. He remembers one trip with his grandfather into town, where young Jackson wanted to buy some …
Aaron Lipski, Milwaukee’s new fire chief, remembers vividly the first time he used what he learned at UWM. At the time, he was battalion chief in the Milwaukee Fire Department’s construction and maintenance division (the repair facility for all fleet …
When Jessica Quinlan graduated from UWM, the job market was bleak. It was 2010 and she had just finished her major in Conservation and Environmental Science. At the height of the recession, few if any nonprofits and local governments were …
