Students
At 85, new graduate isn’t ready to stop learning
Eager to get that college degree he missed early in life, Ben Owen went back to school. He’s now graduating from UWM at Waukesha, and he’s not done learning yet.
Honors College students give back with service trip to New Orleans
Rather than spend their break partying, 20 students from UWM’s Honors College spent a week in New Orleans doing work to help the community.
Research at UWM celebrated at undergrad symposium
UWM celebrated its status as an “R1” university, a designation given to the country’s top research institutions, on Friday at an event highlighting one aspect of the university’s research prowess, the UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Student returns to Tanzania with Fulbright doctoral fellowship
Allison Kotowicz is the only graduate student from UWM to receive this prestigious award in recent years. She’s studying the Maasai people of Tanzania and how they are preserving their identity in the 21st century.
UWM students help Girl Scouts boost their ‘courage, confidence and character’
Though the Girl Scouts of Wisconsin are often associated with their seasonal cookie sales, their greater mission is to develop the “3 C’s” in young girls: courage, confidence and character. UWM students of the College of Health Sciences wanted to help.
Food pantry wins UW System award
The UWM Food Center and Pantry will receive the Regents Diversity Award for its efforts to address food insecurity on campus.
UWM student putting names to faces of the unidentified deceased
Each year, thousands of unidentified bodies are found across the country. For relatives, not knowing what happened adds to their anguish. A UWM student hopes her website can help solve some of those cases.
UWM student’s cap design chosen for Milwaukee Bucks promotion
The cap created by UWM student Kelsey Robinson will be given to the first 10,000 fans attending the Feb. 23 Bucks game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Once a lackluster high-schooler, Frank Lewis now a grad student and author
Midway through high school, Frank Lewis had a GPA of 1.8. But then he got himself on the right track, and a few years later, he’s now pursuing a graduate degree in social work at UWM and has written his first book.
New graduates show their pride at UWM commencement
The UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena was filled with smiles, cheers and camera flashes as more than 2,200 degrees were awarded Dec. 16 during UWM’s 119th commencement.