The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will award more than 1,800 degrees in a virtual ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 20. The ceremony will go live on YouTube at 10 a.m. Dec. 20. At that time, a link will become available on UWM’s graduation page. The ceremony is being held virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The university […]
The Wm. Collins Kohler Foundation has committed $3 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to create an endowed professorship known as the Wm. Collins Kohler Chair in Systems Change & Peacebuilding.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has decided to shift to primarily remote instruction after Thanksgiving recess. While UWM campuses have been relatively safe, the move comes as Wisconsin and the country have faced rapidly rising cases of COVID-19. The state has set records of new cases several times over the past week, and caseloads are threatening […]
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is requiring testing for COVID-19 for all students who live in UWM residence halls in an effort to manage infections through early identification, contact tracing and quarantine. Campus health officials began administering antigen testing to a small cohort of students in August. That will be scaled up and moved to the […]
UWM’s ‘Meeting in Middle America’ podcast: David Weigel
A pioneer in water-focused research and the largest institution of its kind on the Great Lakes, the School of Freshwater Sciences at UW-Milwaukee will offer its first undergraduate program beginning in Fall 2021. The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved the university’s proposal for a bachelor’s program in freshwater sciences on Thursday, Aug. […]
Arijit Sen, an associate professor of architecture at UWM, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Architecture for the 2020-2021 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Sen is one of about 800 U.S. citizens selected to conduct research or teach abroad for the […]
UWM alum named one of Wisconsin’s top 48 influential Asian American leaders
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will award more than 3,400 degrees in a virtual ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 16. The ceremony will go live on YouTube at 10 a.m. Aug. 16. At that time, the link will become available on UWM’s graduation page. The ceremony for Spring 2020 graduates had been postponed from May to October, […]
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced its second-highest fundraising year in the history of the university. Between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020, nearly 6,000 donors gave $35.2 million to the UWM Foundation, which supports UWM. In 2018, the university raised $38.6 million. “I am thrilled to announce this good news,” UWM Chancellor Mark Mone […]