Graduate and Undergraduate Awards

Congratulations to this year’s Graduate and Undergraduate Awards:

Caitlin Monahan (BA student in Urban Studies) won the Undergraduate Award for her poster: “The Prevalence of Change: House Flipping as a Gentrification Mechanism in Milwaukee.”

Caitlin Monahan award for her poster

Maria Francis, (PhD Candidate in Urban Studies) received the Graduate Award for her poster: “Unveiling Narratives: Resisting Adversity and Empowering Youth through Milwaukee’s Community Media Project.”

Maria Francis Graduate award for her poster

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.