Chancellor Mark Mone officially welcomed the UWM Class of 2023 at the University Welcome on Friday Aug. 30, 2019. The group celebrated with a class photo and the traditional coin toss into the fountain. Welcome, new Panthers!
Engineering students in UWM’s Virtual Reality Infrastructure Laboratory can now use a virtual reality hologram table to examine and test structural designs. UWM is the first nonmilitary user of this Euclideon holotable, which is unique in allowing multiple people to simultaneously view virtual 3D images from different perspectives, and do so without bulky VR headgear. […]
UWM gets into the holiday spirit as Chancellor Mark Mone builds gingerbread houses with faculty, staff and students. Are they Pinterest-savvy or #PinterestFails? You decide! With appearances by: Mark Mone – UWM chancellor Alyssa Molinski – UWM student association president Anya Covington – UWM women’s basketball assistant coach Ryaen Johnson – UWM women’s basketball player […]
Lei Schlitz (’93 MS Mechanical Engineering, ’98 PhD Mechanical Engineering) has had a tremendously successful career that has landed her at the top of a Fortune 500 corporation. Schlitz began her career at Eaton Corporation’s Innovation Center before taking positions at GE Global Research Center, GE Industrial Systems and Siemens. She joined Illinois Tool Works […]
Dave Misky (BS Biological Sciences ’92) was elected to the UWM Alumni Association Board of Trustees in 2012 and recently completed a five-year term president of the Alumni Association. Understanding how important UWM is to the greater Milwaukee area, he has facilitated the Redevelopment Authority’s involvement in many projects championed by the UWM Real Estate […]
UWM’s story is front and center for about 7 million travelers who pass through Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport every year. Signage, photos and other imagery throughout the airport showcase the crucial role UWM plays in the community. The larger-than-life displays feature UWM’s world-class faculty, diverse students and successful alumni. They celebrate UWM’s groundbreaking research, […]
A 4-year-old with two brooms and a toy car had an idea: He’d tie the brooms to the back of the battery-powered Jeep and clean the streets. It was a foreshadowing of what Gabriel Yeager wanted to do with his life: downtown management. That dream led Yeager to UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning. […]
Four years ago, Milwaukee and UWM seemed very far away for Savannah Huettl. No one in her family had gone to college. Not many people from her small town went off to the big city. And beyond that, her family’s modest means seemed to preclude college. A full-tuition scholarship opened doors for her, and Huettl […]
Ali Bakhshinejad ran a business with his brother in Iran, but he had an itch to travel and learn. That curiosity and wanderlust led to a master’s degree in Iceland and a doctorate in engineering at UWM. At UWM, he threw himself into research and entrepreneurism. The Student Startup Challenge and I-Corps program fed his […]
Among the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s more than 3,300 graduates are countless remarkable stories. In this video, you’ll hear three of them. Congratulations to the entire UWM Class of 2018! After arriving at UWM via Iran and Iceland, Ali Bakhshinejad threw himself into research and entrepreneurism. The Student Startup Challenge and I-Corps program fed his business […]