News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
A team of students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recently won first place in a national competition to come up with inexpensive and practical solutions to improving drinking water in remote areas.
The new graduate certificate for working civil and environmental engineers with undergraduate degrees is geared toward students who are interested in continuing their education but not yet ready to commit to a master’s program.
Doors Open Milwaukee is returning to a mostly in-person event this year, and UWM is once again participating. Five sites on UWM’s Milwaukee campus will be open for the event, three in-person and two virtually.
Three new UWM research projects will divide $150,000 in Catalyst Grant seed funding from the UWM Research Foundation.
UWM alumni improve the world in ways big and small, ranging from sports to business to entertainment and beyond. Here are a few.
John Kissinger started his building career in the sandbox. He went on to help build such iconic Midwestern structures as the Wisconsin Center, the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Chicago’s McCormick Place West addition and the renovation of Lambeau Field.
“Get Wheelin’ in Westlawn” is a community bike ride and bike repair event, but it’s part of something bigger than that. The UWM College of Nursing co-sponsored event also helps clean the air by getting people out of cars and onto bikes.
When a 10-year-old girl in Nairobi wanted to learn more about computers, her mother found her best option some 8,000 miles away. Working online, Elsie Maingi enrolled in the Girls Who Code program at UWM.
The $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help expand campus research capabilities and research-related educational opportunities.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded funding to UWM to operate an Industrial Assessment Center, which offers free evaluations to manufacturers and wastewater treatment plants to help them reduce waste, save energy and reduce carbon emissions.
