Effort to boost student success in Milwaukee showing positive results
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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.
On the Table organizers hope to harness energy of the event
For the university’s second year as “super host” of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s “On the Table” communitywide conversation, no topic was off the table.
Milwaukee residents to vote early at Zelazo Center
City of Milwaukee residents in all wards will be able to vote early at UWM, starting Oct. 15.
UWM partnership helps MPS students grow a bright future
Learn-Earn-Grow MKE teaches MPS students how to farm, but its other lessons are just as valuable. The program, which also includes UWM and MATC, teaches about work and finances, college life and leadership, providing tools for the students’ success.
Foxconn Day at UWM draws hundreds of job-seekers
Some 350 people came to the UWM Student Union on Monday seeking information and interviews from Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer.
UWM Night at Sept. 15 Milwaukee Brewers game features cap giveaway
Buy some peanuts and Cracker Jacks, and root, root, root for the Milwaukee Brewers as they roll out the barrel and host division rival the Pittsburgh Pirates on UWM Night Sept. 15.
1,500 students coming to Wisconsin Science Olympiad at UWM
More than 1,500 young scientists from all over Wisconsin will be at UW-Milwaukee April 6 and 7 to compete in the 2018 Wisconsin Science Olympiad for middle and high school students.
Brewers-Panthers ‘Hot Stove’ brings baseball fans to the plate
Students and community members alike were on hand for the second annual “Hot Stove” collaboration between UWM and the Milwaukee Brewers.
Microsoft kicks off UWM’s first ‘industrial internet of things’ workshop
Representatives from Microsoft presented the first program of UWM’s Connected Systems Institute, demonstrating software designed to harness data from the “industrial internet of things,” or IIoT, to boost productivity of companies.
UWM-developed app helps protect patients’ brains during surgery
Students in UWM’s App Brewery worked with doctors at the Medical College of Wisconsin to develop an app that helps guide doctors during the delicate process of brain surgery.