Campus & Community
Helping – and learning from – troubled women and girls
UWM’s Counseling Psychology program is involved in an ongoing partnership that is helping troubled girls and young women gain control of their lives.
Right skills = grand slam
Jake Thorn, an intern who’s become a seasonal employee of the Brewers, has “my dream job since I was 12,” working in sports multimedia.
Learning from a rising star
Diébédo Francis Kéré, a rising star in the world of architecture, is guiding a team of students who conceived a public space that would unite Milwaukee communities divided by a river valley.
Seniors, students contribute to quality of life through art
UWM and the United Community Center partnered to create an arts program for seniors at the UCC Adult Day Center.
Coding, caffeinating, keynoting fuel CEAS grad
Daniel Spiewak worked fulltime, wrote a book and traveled the international tech-conference circuit as a sought-after speaker while earning his bachelor’s degree. Now 23, he’s off to a Boulder startup to make his name in big-data analytics.
He’s headed for a career in motion
This former heavy-metal musician considered a career as a nurse or motorcycle technician. Instead he became an award-winning undergraduate researcher who’s been accepted into UWM’s DPT program.
Headed for a career giving others financial focus
Jasmine Ridgell, a finance and investment management graduate of the Lubar School of Business, has completed the most prestigious undergraduate programs in the Lubar School. She’s already got a fulltime position at Robert W. Baird & Co.
She found the creative side of math
She moved from Mexico to Milwaukee, graduating from Riverside University High School. She enrolled at MATC with an interest in Mesoamerican sculpture. Now she’s taking her husband, daughter and a PhD in mathematics to West Point for a post-doc teaching fellowship.
Award-winning journalist graduates, gets job
Michael Meidenbauer won college journalism awards for his coverage of collective-bargaining changes and their impact on the School District of Shorewood. He loves community journalism, and will be working for MyCommunityNow.
Vientiane to UWM, she’s making history
Buasawan Simmala may be the first Laotian woman to earn a degree in the U.S. since Laos came under Communist rule 37 years ago. She learned English and came to the U.S. as an adult. Her daughter graduates with her on May 20. Her son already holds a UWM degree and is now in graduate school at the university.