News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Moon Shot for Equity, a southeastern Wisconsin initiative involving UWM aimed at eliminating equity gaps in college completion rates, is featured as the cover story in the latest issue of University Business magazine.
When Milwaukee Magazine announced its first-ever Unity Awards in February, a current employee and two UWM alumni were among the six people honored for helping build a better Milwaukee by encouraging diversity and inclusion.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee Area Technical College are partnering in the Equity Transfer Initiative, a new effort to increase transfer rates for Black, Hispanic, adult and first-generation learners.
When Hank Aaron died in January, he was remembered as a giant both on and off the baseball field. Aaron’s foundation has helped hundreds of students achieve their dreams, including Hawa Brema, who’s set to graduate in May.
The app, an idea hatched by UWM alum Deborah Blanks and brought to life by the App Brewery, grew out of Blanks’ desire to teach her son about Black history.
To recognize the unrelenting efforts of health care workers, UWM Peck School of the Arts students joined in on the Hand Medal Project, a global effort to give a symbolic helping hand to those working on the frontlines of the pandemic.
Milwaukee’s three largest urban institutions of public education share a common goal that has taken on added urgency.
Margaret Noodin, professor of English and American Indian Studies at UWM, will be one of the presenters in a series of four online discussions that explore the cultural and philosophical roots of American democracy.
Kassidi Macak coaches the girls basketball team at Salam School in Milwaukee. One of the few all-Muslim female high school teams in the country, the squad has attracted national attention.
Fifteen years after a trove of 350 letters written by Milwaukee beer brewing royalty were unearthed, two UWM grad students tackled the task of translating the difficult to understand German script.
