Honors College students give back with service trip to New Orleans
Rather than spend their break partying, 20 students from UWM’s Honors College spent a week in New Orleans doing work to help the community.
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Opera teaches lessons in life and career for UWM music students
Staging an opera isn’t easy, but it’s worth the effort for the valuable lessons it teaches UWM music and theater students, say those involved. This year’s production is Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito.”
MPS job fair attracts more than 1,000 students to UWM
More than 1,000 MPS high school students converged on UWM on Wednesday for the 2019 MPS Student Job Fair in the Wisconsin Room of the Student Union.
Grad works to build community while tending to the earth
Amirah AbuLughod is learning about small-scale farming while working at Stony Point Center, home to a multifaith community that provides opportunities for interfaith growth and spiritual reflection.
UWM students help Girl Scouts boost their ‘courage, confidence and character’
Though the Girl Scouts of Wisconsin are often associated with their seasonal cookie sales, their greater mission is to develop the “3 C’s” in young girls: courage, confidence and character. UWM students of the College of Health Sciences wanted to help.
UWM student putting names to faces of the unidentified deceased
Each year, thousands of unidentified bodies are found across the country. For relatives, not knowing what happened adds to their anguish. A UWM student hopes her website can help solve some of those cases.
Galambos appointed to National Academies committee
Colleen Galambos, the Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology, has been appointed to a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that will examine loneliness and social isolation in older adults.
Effort to boost student success in Milwaukee showing positive results
M³, an educational collaboration of UWM, Milwaukee Public Schools and Milwaukee Area Technical College, celebrated its second anniversary with an event highlighting the impact the initiative has had so far.
Italian consul general visits UWM
Dec. 10 was a historic day for the Italian community in Milwaukee as the Italian consul general visited the city for the first time in 25 years.
UWM students, faculty among winners in Foxconn ‘Smart Cities’ competition
Seven people from UWM were among the 88 winners in the first round of the Foxconn “Smart Cities-Smart Futures” competition, which attracted 325 entries from higher education institutions across Wisconsin.