Vice Chancellor Tom Luljak announces retirement
Tom Luljak will retire from UWM on June 3 after more than two decades of service. His work includes hosting the popular UWM Today radio show on WUWM.
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App developed at UWM helps explore Black history
The app, an idea hatched by UWM alum Deborah Blanks and brought to life by the App Brewery, grew out of Blanks’ desire to teach her son about Black history.
Hijabs and hoops: UWM alum helps Salam School shatter stereotypes
Kassidi Macak coaches the girls basketball team at Salam School in Milwaukee. One of the few all-Muslim female high school teams in the country, the squad has attracted national attention.
Elementary teacher finds new career as award-winning school librarian
When Sarah Siver’s elementary school in Sparta lost its librarian a year few years ago, the third-grade teacher was concerned. Utilizing a new UWM pathway to librarianship, she found a way to help.
UWM Alumni House sold to Andy Nunemaker for renovation as private residence
The UW System Board of Regents on behalf of UW-Milwaukee has sold a former private residence, recently known as the UWM Alumni House, to a Milwaukee businessman, Andy Nunemaker, for $1.8 million.
UWM lights the Hoan Bridge to honor graduates
With cameras in hand and video drones in the sky, Light the Hoan and UWM’s media team captured the bridge as it was lit up in Panther gold on Dec. 2.
UWM to include graduate students in UW System survey of alumni
UWM will go an extra step and include graduate students in a University of Wisconsin System survey of alumni to weigh their career and education satisfaction five to 10 years after earning a bachelor’s degree.
Campus life during pandemic: Athletes and administrators navigate challenges
Athletes are used to facing challenges. For them, COVID-19 is another opponent to defeat.
UW System to gauge alumni satisfaction in broad survey
The University of Wisconsin System is embarking on an ambitious survey of alumni aimed at gauging career and education satisfaction, knowledge and skills gained, community and civic involvement, economic mobility, degree relevance and other measures of a UW education.
UWM students working on front lines of coronavirus battle
When the coronavirus pandemic struck, it wasn’t just doctors and nurses who leapt into action. It was UWM students, too. Students have been working in public health, nursing, mask-making and other necessary tasks. Here are a few of their stories.