Campus Partnerships
UWM-Guanajuato partnership boosts city’s ties with Mexico
UWM and the University of Guanajuato are partnering to encourage educational collaborations and business partnerships between Wisconsin and Mexico.
Students help nonprofits spread the word about their efforts
UWM students joined area nonprofits to help improve their communications with the community – and learned what they could use in their own coursework.
On MLK Day, UWM community chooses ‘a day on, not a day off’
UWM students, faculty, staff and alumni spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day volunteering in a Milwaukee high school, painting murals of inspirational images, book covers and quotations.
Area students explore Architecture 100 – and perhaps a career
High school students take UWM’s Architecture 100 course – free and online – to help inspire their interest in the field.
In memoriam: Philanthropist and UWM benefactor Bernard Peck
Bernard Peck, a long-time UWM benefactor whose family lent its name to the Peck School of the Arts, will be honored today, Oct. 22, with a memorial service.
Finding a path to an Indian city’s future
Associate Professor of Architecture Manu P. Sobti, UWM architecture students and colleagues in India are examining that country’s first modern planned city, looking at how its growth could co-exist with nearby pre-existing historic villages.
Beyond the Bell Milwaukee and UWM create app for teens
Teens now have more than 250 things to do at their fingertips, thanks to a new app UWM’s App Brewery developed for Beyond the Bell Milwaukee.
Brewers surprise UWM students with ‘pop-up’ tailgate
The Milwaukee Brewers surprised UWM students Wednesday with an impromptu tailgate party in Spaights Plaza. “We were just chilling in the Union and we saw all this commotion,” said junior Samantha Ostrowski, who was joined by her sister Nicole Ostrowski, a sophomore, in the crowd of students gathered in the plaza. “There’s a lot of people, and I got a free bobble head.”
Students distribute free backpacks and school supplies
Students from UWM’s Peck School of the Arts and the University of Wisconsin System’s Institute for Urban Education helped a local nonprofit organization provide backpacks and school supplies to low-income families.
Student to UWM mentor: ‘Thank you for being a role model’
Robert Smith, UWM’s associate vice chancellor for Global Inclusion & Engagement, helped write the Milwaukee Public Schools new “Black Lives Matter” resolution. Smith also mentors young black men at Wauwatosa West High School through a voluntary program that offers a safe, confidential place to talk about everything from becoming a man to sexuality to integration to academics.