Academic Staff standing committee members

Here are the results of the spring 2016 Academic Staff standing committees election. Academic Planning and Budget Committee: Kelsey Stockton Academic Staff Awards Committee: Nicole Class Olivia Navarro Academic Staff Codification Committee: Gabriela Dorantes Academic Staff Committee: Berri Forman Robin Jens Darcie Warren Academic Staff Hearings & Appeals Committee: Thomas G. Mcginnity Bull Mueller Olivia […]

Accessibility Resource Center Excellence Award winners

Here are the 2016 Accessibility Resource Center Excellence Award winners. Adam Hudson, senior lecturer, School of Information Studies; Leah Rineck, math coordinator and senior lecturer, Mathematical Sciences; Sarah Ruder, Web Development, Mobile Communication & Media Relations, University Relations; Jeb Willenbring, professor, Mathematical Sciences; and Lillian Folk, interim assistant dean/administrative program specialist, College of Health Sciences. Awardees […]

Education Technology Fee-funded projects announced

Here are the 2016-17 Education Technology Fee-funded one-time proposals: PantherFile Maintenance and Adobe Enterprise Cloud License (UITS); Large Format Color Printing for Students and UWM Campus Events Calendar (University Relations and Communications); Extend Online Tutoring (Panther Academic Support Services); Capturing Student Research & Dissertations through UWM Commons, increased allocation for subscriptions; Digital Resources – Ebooks (UWM Libraries). Also, UWM Open Textbook/OER Adoption Project […]

UWM celebrates Arbor Day with 9 new trees

A Princeton American elm and a Warrenred Pacific Sunset maple were among nine new trees planted throughout the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus Friday, April 29, to celebrate Arbor Day. The new trees should bolster Milwaukee’s application to become certified by Tree Campus USA, which encourages colleges to better budget, manage and sustain their urban trees. […]

Barbara Zakrzewska Borowiecki dies at age 91

Barbara Zakrzewska Borowiecki, professor emerita in the department of Geography, died in March in Springfield, Illinois, at age 91. She was born in Warsaw, Poland. She began teaching in the department at UW-Milwaukee in 1960, became chair of the department in 1971, and retired from UWM in 1992. Borowiecki was instrumental in UWM’s acquisition and […]

Stoffel, Smith represent UWM at national conference

Ginny Stoffel, associate professor of occupational science and technology, represented UW-Milwaukee in April at the annual American Occupational Therapy Association conference and expo in Chicago. The association’s president since 2013, Stoffel presented the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship – the highest academic scholarly award in the United States – to UWM’s Roger Smith, professor of occupational […]

Hill named interim senior student affairs officer

With the naming of Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Michael Laliberte as president of the State University of New York at Delhi, Associate Vice Chancellor James Hill will become interim senior student affairs officer beginning in July – until a formal search is concluded some time in the next year. Laliberte will remain in his position […]

Student leaders from across Wisconsin here for conference

Some 450 college students from across Wisconsin converged on the UW-Milwaukee campus for a student leadership conference, April 21-23. The American Multicultural Student Leadership Conference is an annual statewide conference that brings students together from varied socio-economic and cultural backgrounds to present research and attends workshops. “Milwaukee is an extremely diverse city and the campus […]

UWM employees receive length of service awards

More than 400 UWM staff and faculty members received Length of Service Awards April 20 in the Union Ballroom. The number of years of continuous service honored ranged in increments of five from five years to 45 years, with J. David Hoeveler, professor of history, and David Petering, professor of chemistry/biochemistry, pictured at right. Chancellor […]

Made in Milwaukee – Urban planning in Switzerland

A city in Switzerland has adopted urban design guidelines made in Milwaukee. Ray Isaacs, associate professor of architecture, and colleague Judith Rütsch, director of planning at Basler and Hofmann a Swiss-based firm, developed the urban planning and design strategies for the city of Rorschach on the shore of Lake Constance in Switzerland. Developers interested in […]