2026
Sam Maurer, urban studies major, received the Best Capstone Project Poster Award for his poster, “When AI Becomes Your Neighbor: Support and Contestation in the Development of Hyperscale Data Centers in Southeast Wisconsin”
2025
Caitlin Monahan won the Undergraduate Best Poster award for her capstone poster: “The Prevalence of Change: House Flipping as a Gentrification Mechanism in Milwaukee.”
2024
Urban Studies majors Isaac Wineke and Liam Farin won the Best Poster Awards for their capstone posters: “Shades of Green: A Spatial Analysis of Tree Canopty Disparities in Milwaukee’s Urban Landscape” by Isaac Wineke and “Imagining a New City Partnership: How Modern Milwaukee Navigates Citizen Participation, Planning, and Public Safety” by Liam Farin.
