News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Patrick Baldwin Jr., ranked as the nation’s No. 4 prospect, had his pick of some of the best college basketball programs in the country, including Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky and Wisconsin, but chose to play closer to home and for his father at UWM.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will honor Kizzmekia “Kizzy” Corbett with the UWM Chancellor’s Innovation Award for her work developing a COVID-19 vaccine. The award will be conferred during a public, virtual event on Wednesday, May 12, at 2 p.m.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is ranked 583 out of 19,788 universities worldwide by the Center for World University Rankings.
Student and staff volunteers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will give back to the community on Saturday, April 17, preparing the homes of local older adults for spring.
Encouraging students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is the focus of the April 14 edition of a virtual event series from M3, the Milwaukee education initiative involving UWM.
Work has started across UWM on implementing a comprehensive set of recommendations that campus leaders hope will shape the future of the university and help to weather a period of uncertainty in higher education overall.
Dan Egan, an environmental journalist and author of the “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes,” has been named the Brico Fund Journalist in Residence at the Center for Water Policy in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences.
UWM’s first-ever university-wide day of giving will take place Wednesday, April 14. This event, known as 414 for UWM: Day of Giving, coincides with Milwaukee Day, when current and former residents of the 414 area code celebrate our city.
UWM and three other southeastern Wisconsin colleges and universities are looking at ways to help students pay for unforeseen or emergency expenses that might prevent them from finishing school.
Professor Kimberly Blaeser was recently recognized by the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas with the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award.
