Yolanda Medina, director of UWM’s Military and Veterans Resource Center, dances at the Military and Veterans Ball at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center. The annual event, now in its 10th year, is a celebration that includes dinner, dancing and camaraderie for all military-related students, alums and supporters. (UWM Photo/Kyle Bursaw)
A dancer performs with the Little Priest Singers, a drum group from the Ho-Chunk Nation, at the Indigenous Felt Knowledge Festival in the concourse of the UWM Student Union. The festival celebrated Indigenous culture and traditions with music, performances, live art, workshops, vendors and food. November is American Indian Heritage Month. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Members of the UWM women’s soccer team come together for a cheer after a recent practice. Eight UWM players
were honored with all-Horizon League awards, including Lainey Higgins as player of the year, Kayla Rollins as offensive player of the year and Parker Donahugh as goalkeeper of the year. UWM won the regular season conference title, and
will host the semifinals and finals of the Horizon League tournament starting on Thursday. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
The rising sun begins lighting up the sky above two of UWM’s newest buildings, the Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex (left) and the Chemistry Building. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
A beautiful blue autumn sky shimmers on the surface of Lake Michigan in this view of the Milwaukee skyline taken from UWM’s research vessel. The Neeskay is the only research vessel that operates on the Great Lakes year-round. (UWM Photo/Chris Baylor)
Alberto Maldonado, director of the Roberto Hernández Center at UWM, plays bongos as the featured guest of the band Pulpa de Guayaba during Latine Placita, a celebration on Spaights Plaza of Latine Heritage Month. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Students walk into and out of the UWM Student Union on a brisk fall day in this photo shot from a drone. The union’s $40 million renovation project
was honored with two awards earlier this year. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Amid clouds of mist, students prepare to dish out nitrogen ice cream to visitors at the grand opening ceremony for UWM’s new Chemistry Building. More than 200 students, faculty, staff, government representatives and friends of UWM came to the grand opening. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Faculty researcher and mentor Adam Hawk (left) and undergraduate researcher Cole Lehto work on their research exploring the integration of traditional craft practices of blacksmithing and metalsmithing with new technologies such as 3D printing, laser cutting and other computer-controlled tools. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
UWM student Maggie Johnson pets Ezmae during Campus Safety Day on Spaights Plaza. Ezmae, a 1-year-old golden retriever, is the UWM Police Department's new certified facility-trained dog, a type of service dog specializing in an educational environment. She’s trained to assist students, staff and anyone else suffering from depression, being a crime victim or dealing with any type of stressful event. At left is Ezmae’s handler, UWM Police Officer Mindy Wucherer. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
More than 3,000 first-year students gathered on Laura Moynihan Field at Engelmann Stadium for a Fall Welcome tradition – forming a “UWM” on the field for the Class of 2028 class photo. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Just in time for the start of the 2024-25 school year, the Hoan Bridge glowed with UWM colors Friday night. Students moved into residence halls last week, and classes began on Tuesday. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
A drone helps provide an unusual perspective on Downer Woods, an 11-acre forest on UWM’s Milwaukee campus. Hiking trails provide an easy way to relax and reconnect with nature amid the busy city. Downer Woods also serves as a learning space for UWM’s conservation and environmental science program. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Scotlyn Haverkorn practices as she prepares to head to the New England Conservatory in Boston this fall to attend graduate school. Haverkorn graduated from UWM's Peck School of the Arts this May with her BFA in music, specializing in vocal performance. “UWM has helped me prepare for my career giving me the training I need, but also experience outside of school to be a working musician. I actually got the opportunity to go to Italy last summer for a three-week intensive opera program. I sang in Puccini's hometown, Lucca, Italy. It was a really, really great, formidable experience.” (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Imagine a robotic arm that could one day allow scientists to seemingly hold and touch objects on other planets without leaving Earth. Biomedical engineering junior Brandon Rocole is working on such a project this summer with funding from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC). The College of Engineering & Applied Science celebrated research like Rocole’s by hosting the WSGC annual conference at the UWM Student Union on Aug. 8. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
UWM architecture graduate students Adam Uy and Jadyn Anderson team up on a project at their internship with Zimmerman Architectural Studios, located in the Menomonee Valley in Milwaukee. Zimmerman, an interdisciplinary architecture, interior design, planning and engineering firm, employs more than 20 UWM alumni, and more than 10 UWM students are serving as interns at there. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
UWM students Brandon Harbison, Mason Luke, Rashida Parveen and Patricia Gunawan check out the Elysian Arcs display at the outdoor grounds of the Marcus Performing Arts Center. The display was created by Atelier Sisu, a Sydney-based design studio led by artists Renzo B. Larriviere and Zara Pasfield. The Elysian Arcs, displayed for the first time in the United States, are a blend of art and architecture consisting of five larger-than-life arches. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
UWM students Kaye Van Susteren (from left), Claire Egerstrom and Dennis Ekwemnachukwu Okeke celebrate International Pride Day June 28 outside of This Is It!, Milwaukee’s oldest continuously operating gay bar. This Is It!, co-owned by UWM alum Trixie Mattel, also includes a performance space and safe place for patrons who are at least 18 years old. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
UWM soccer player Natalie Zodrow, an incoming freshman, takes a shot on the new playing surface at the Laura Moynihan Field. Players work out and hold practices without coaches over the summer. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
A group of college students kayaks on the Milwaukee River on an outing hosted by the Milwaukee Kayak Company and led by guides from Milwaukee Riverkeeper. They were part of a group of almost 40 students from UWM and around the nation participating in the Freshwater Collaborative’s Freshwater@UW program. Freshwater@UW is a summer research program that gives students the opportunity to work closely with faculty and staff on freshwater research projects, including working in labs and on the Neeskay research vessel. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Every day, photographers at UWM capture the images that help tell the story of the university – its people and its programs, but also its impact.
We’ve been collecting the best photos each week in a gallery that features our photographers’ creativity and imagination.
Our first photo of the week gallery captured the best images from spring and summer of 2024. Here’s the second gallery, which will take us through the end of summer and into the fall.