Students
Pursuing a dream at the Summer Olympics
UW-Milwaukee student Shayla Schuett, is headed for London July 27 as an official volunteer with the title “Sport Equipment Team Member.”
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.
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.
His network isn’t social, it’s professional
Robb Krasnow can network: Computers, mostly, like the 5,000 PCs and 100 network switches he supports as a technology intern at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). Employed through Tushaus Computer Services, Krasnow has balanced a part-time IT career with his School of Information Studies (SOIS) coursework for the last 18 months. Even as he […]
California dreaming shapes career path for biz/PR grad
Colleen Hickman needed creativity. So, she applied for an internship at one of the world’s top 10 advertising agencies in Los Angeles, where her colleagues rode around on scooters – indoors