News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dan Egan, senior water policy fellow at the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences, appeared Tuesday on the “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” playing straight man to comedian Michael Kosta on a five-minute segment about the Great Lakes.
“You see awards for literacy, for athletics, for acting, but they don’t have awards for kindness,” said Mike Robertson. So he decided to do something about it.
Two National Book Award finalists visited UWM in the span of one week to talk with faculty, staff and students. UWM hosted a talk on Sept. 28 with Min Jin Lee, whose novel “Pachinko” is a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Students, faculty and staff were able to ask her questions about […]
The UWM GIS Council has again planned a full schedule of GIS Day activities on campus to showcase Milwaukee-area GIS projects and resources.
Vampires, werewolves and monsters of all kinds are starring in academic research presentations at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, just in time for Halloween. Undergraduate students from two programs are sharing their research at a “Monster Conference” on Friday, Oct. 27, from 1 to 3 p.m. in Room 196 of the Honors College, 3363 N. Maryland […]
Chancellor Mark Mone and Provost Johannes Britz took advantage of a beautiful fall day to play a little hacky sack with engineering students on Oct. 17.
Seven films directed by UWM alumni won awards at the 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival. In total, alumni won $25,000 and additionally received over $50,000 in production services.
UWM faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members gathered at the Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, Oct. 13, to celebrate the national accreditation of the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health. The school learned this past summer that it had attained national accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health, […]
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is participating in an initiative next week that aims to harness the power of conversation.
The three-year grant, in partnership with the Milwaukee Public Schools, is from the U.S. Department of Education’s Supporting Effective Educator Development program.
