News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
UWM’s women’s basketball team saw its season end with a 59-49 loss to North Carolina-Greensboro in Thursday night’s Women’s Basketball Invitational semifinals at Greensboro’s Fleming Gym. The Panthers finish with a record of 22-12, tying the program record for most wins in a season. They also notched the first two postseason wins in program history, […]
Marcy Bidney, Curator of the American Geographical Society Library, has been awarded the 2017 De Gruyter European Librarianship Study Grant for her project, “Where the Water Flows: Documenting Collections of late 19th and early 20th century Nautical Charts.”
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been named a top military-friendly online school for 2017 by the SR Education Group, an education research publishing company based in Kirkland, Washington. The company selected 68 accredited universities offering online degrees and ranked them based on performance in four areas: military culture, online support, financial aid and scheduling flexibility. […]
Margaret Atherton, UWM distinguished professor of philosophy, delivered the 2017 John Dewey lecture at the American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting on March 2. She credited the reputation of UWM’s philosophy department as a major reason for being selected. Although the department doesn’t grant doctoral degrees, its master’s program has been instrumental in preparing students […]
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, a visiting assistant professor in UWM’s Department of Africology, has been awarded the 2017 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant for her project “Black Brazilian Social Justice Activism in the Digital Age.” As part of the honor, Mitchell-Walthour will deliver the Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture during the fall 2017 semester at the Golda Meir […]
UWM’s women’s basketball team reached the semifinals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational with Sunday’s 67-57 victory over St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania. The Panthers will play at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro 6 p.m. Thursday for a spot in the WBI championship game. Against St. Francis, the Panthers got 15 points apiece from Jamie […]
UWM’s Solar Ambassador Team is helping Milwaukee nonprofits go green. Working with RE-volv, a nonprofit that covers the upfront costs for other nonprofits’ solar projects, UWM’s student service group is helping crowdfund its second solar energy upgrade. If the team raises $10,567 by April 4, it will install a solar energy system atop the River […]
Peck School of the Arts graduate student Evan Taucher won the top prize in the guitar category at the prestigious Schubert Club Student Scholarship Competition. Along with his first-place honors, Taucher earned $2,000 and the right to perform at a concert in 2017. Taucher is from Tampa, Fla., and pursuing his master’s degree in music […]
UWM Media Milwaukee students earned 20 finalist nominations in the collegiate division of the Milwaukee Press Club’s Awards for Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Competition. Students are being recognized for their journalistic work on written, visual, audio and video projects. They’ll learn whether they’ve won a gold, silver or bronze award at the Press Club’s 87th […]
More than 100 new published works by UWM faculty and staff were on display at the biennial Authors Recognition Ceremony March 7. The topics of the books, monographs and recorded media shown included a social history of the American census and a tracking of women and crime, as well as a history of the modern […]
