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Twenty students from the UWM Honors College spent their spring break in New Orleans, but the trip wasn’t just about food and music. The students also contributed their hard work helping out the community. The students teamed with the Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center to do some landscaping and cleaning, and elsewhere also contributed such work […]

Lights! Camera! Glamour! The UWM Drag Show lived up to the high standard of past year’s celebrations on Feb. 23 at the Miller High Life Theatre. Attracting more than 1,700 attendees, this year’s 20th anniversary drag show raised $5,738. All proceeds benefit the UWM LGBT Resource Center. Celebrated as one of the largest drag shows in […]

Winter Welcome kicks off the spring semester with a full roster of free, fun and rewarding activities. Held Jan. 22 to 25, the activities included art projects, meditation, an informational study-abroad fair, a hot chocolate hang-out and a special UWM women’s basketball game.

UWM sprang back to life as some 4,000 students descended on campus and moved into residence halls during move-in week. Crews of volunteers helped students unpack cars and vans. They swaddled the luggage in plastic wrap on moving carts and helped wheel the carts to elevators and up into rooms. Returning students found several renovations and additions […]

Dana Kaleta, director of the Quest Project within the TRIO & Pre-College Programs at UWM, has taken two trips to Puerto Rico to assist in humanitarian efforts with La Causa Charter School in Milwaukee. They have raised over $3,000 and purchased 120 water filters that have been distributed to displaced families in the island territory.  Kaleta […]

A group of UW-Milwaukee Honors College students decided to take an “alternative spring break” in New Orleans. During their six days in the city, the students worked on community service projects.