News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students and residents of Eastcastle Place are joining forces for their first joint art exhibition, called the “Living Room Gallery Show,” at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, at Eastcastle Place, 2425 N. Lake Drive. Ian McGibbon, one of UWM’s Student Artists in Residence, lives at Eastcastle Place and is coordinating the show. […]
Alisa Jordheim, a lecturer of voice at the Peck School of the Arts, has received a $12,000 award from the William Matheus Sullivan Musical Foundation. The grant, named for Rose Bampton, a longtime member of the Sullivan foundation board, is one of 15 awarded to vocalists. Jordheim and the other recipients will also receive financial aid […]
UWM will host one of Kimberly Blaeser’s final events as Wisconsin poet laureate. The event will celebrate the memorization and recitation of poetry on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. at UWM’s Hefter Center, 3271 N. Lake Drive. Blaeser, a professor of English at UWM, promotes the art of poetry memorization and recitation. Since she […]
Organizers anticipate that nearly 1,400 middle and high school students will participate in the fourth annual Summit on Black Male Youth, to be held at UWM on Dec. 15 and 16. The summit brings together middle and high school students, parents and administrators from Milwaukee and surrounding communities to examine issues challenging young African American […]
With backing from the U.S. Department of Energy, UWM has offered free energy assessments to nearly 100 small and medium-sized industrial companies in the last five years, making recommendations that could save them more than $7.7 million. The Energy Department has recently renewed a grant supporting UWM’s Industrial Assessment Center for another five years. The […]
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee raised more than $9,000 for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin on Saturday. The second annual Panther Miracle Network Dance Marathon welcomed close to 200 participants to dance for 10 hours. So far, they have raised $9,188, and participants will continue raise funds through December. “I couldn’t be more proud of […]
Three UWM Peck School of the Arts artists will receive Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships. Jesse McLean and Joseph Mougel each will receive $20,000 established artist fellowships. Brooke Thiele will receive a $10,000 emerging artist fellowship. The fellowships will provide unrestricted funds for the artists to create new work or to complete work in progress. […]
UW-Milwaukee has received the UW Veterans Education and Transition to Success Certification. The VETS Certification recognizes UWM’s commitment to helping student veterans succeed through a wide range of supportive services. More student veterans attend UWM than any other campus in the Midwest. Student veterans at UWM shared nearly $23 million of tuition in 2016 throughout […]
Four UWM students recently completed a national program that trains them to be “change agents” who create opportunities for other students to engage with entrepreneurship and creative thinking at their schools. The training of University Innovation Fellows is run by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), which has trained 776 students at 164 […]
More than 600 UW-Milwaukee students participated over the weekend in the Milwaukee Make a Difference Day. Volunteers cleaned up city neighborhoods and helped with the basic winterization of older adults’ homes who needed assistance with raking leaves, clearing garden beds, washing windows and picking up trash. Of the 250 homes served by volunteers in the […]
