UWM Honors Wainwright

Distinguished Professor Emeritus William Wainwright is a recipient of the Ernest Spaights Plaza Awards. This is the highest honor the University bestows on any member of its community for having made significant and lasting contributions to UWM.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.