Friends, family, faculty and staff gathered Sunday in the UWM Panther Arena to celebrate the success of the UWM Class of 2023. Some 2,000 graduates received their diplomas during the university’s 129th commencement, ranging in age from 19 to 63 years old. Graduates heard commencement addresses from Vicki Martin, president of Milwaukee Area Technical College, and […]

Dozens of guests gathered Thursday, Jan. 26, for a ceremony to celebrate the topping off of the new chemistry building under construction on UWM’s main campus. The new four-story, 163,400-square-foot building will serve as a gateway to the STEM buildings and departments that house those subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It will include […]

UWM celebrated the opening of the James and Yvonne Ziemer Clinical Simulation Center, a state-of-the-art facility designed to train the next generation of health care professionals, with a grand opening event on Nov. 1. Dozens of students, faculty, staff, campus leaders and community members got a look at the 22,000-square-foot center at the Northwest Quadrant during the invitation-only event. […]

UWM photographers chronicled life at the university, both on campus and off, in 2019. Here are a few of our favorite images from Pantherfest to State Fair, from research labs to the fountain.