Campus & Community
Alum helps immigrant and refugee children during pandemic with multilingual story time
Lynden Sculpture Garden’s virtual story time reaches youngsters ages 4 to 8 years old as a way “to start conversations with children about displacement, adaptation, and belonging.”
Building projects could reshape UWM’s main campus over next five years
UWM’s main physical campus could look dramatically different in the next five years if several buildings and facilities projects move forward on schedule.
UWM highlights regional impact of partnership initiatives to regents
UWM has forged partnerships with academic and industry partners aimed at increasing diversity in the workforce and driving economic prosperity in southeastern Wisconsin.
Budget crunch imperils UWM’s ability to meet goals, regents told
UWM’s current financial picture is strained and in desperate need of investment if it is to sustain its mission in the future, Robin Van Harpen, UWM vice chancellor for finance and administrative affairs, told a group of UW System regents Thursday.
Health of UWM vital to health of region, Mone tells regents
While the challenges facing Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin are great, no single institution is better positioned to help address them than UWM, Chancellor Mark Mone told the UW System Board of Regents on Thursday.
UWM and Marquette team up to address poverty in the community
UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University have announced a partnership that will focus on poverty, its root causes and its subsequent effects on members of Milwaukee’s various communities.
UW System honors Robin Jens
Jens, assistant dean of student services in the College of Nursing and interim student service director in the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, is one of two individual award recipients this year.
UWM business alum gives a second $1 million to athletics, challenges others
Milwaukee entrepreneur Fred Sitzberger has pledged $1 million to the UWM Foundation in support of Milwaukee Panther Athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
‘Find what you love and practice it,’ Dafoe tells UWM graduates
Four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe returned to UWM after nearly 50 years, delivering this year’s commencement address and receiving an honorary doctorate.
Carmen high school seniors celebrate college signing day at UWM
More than 300 Carmen graduating seniors celebrated the schools’ first-ever Senior Signing Day, with drum rolls, high energy cheering, music, dancing and scholarship and honors announcements.