The University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee is a great place to explore career, extracurricular and academic options, according to two May graduates. Both Britney Morrow, who earned her master’s degree in social work, and Phylicia Rivera, who earned her B.S. in sociology, benefited from a wide range of experiences at UWM. Morrow had earned a bachelor’s [...]

Members of the Palermo Workers Union welcomed a decision this week by the UW-Milwaukee administration to halt campus sales of Palermo’s Pizza through the summer of 2013. The multi-organization Boycott Coalition for Workers Rights declared a major victory after occupying and shutting down the Palermo’s Pizza window at the UWM food court for nearly 2 [...]

Growing Power’s Will Allen will be the featured speaker at the Friends of the Golda Meir Library Annual Program, on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. in the Library’s fourth floor Conference Center. Also speaking will be Michael Lovell, UWM Chancellor; Gretchen Mead, Victory Garden Initiative Executive Director; and Stan Stojkovic, UWM School of [...]

As the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Peck School of the Arts and the Year of the Arts, two Peck School alumni have been selected as the UWM Foundation Alumni Fellows for 2013. This year’s fellows are Henry Godinez of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and Kevin Stalheim, founder of Milwaukee’s Present Music. [...]

Esmeralda Cruz was nervous about making the transition from Milwaukee Area Technical College to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Michael Brown wanted to complete his GED (General Education Diploma) and begin to turn his life around after some struggles. Both Cruz and Brown found support in reaching their goals through the federally funded Educational Opportunity Center [...]

Daniel Monge, a senior in physics, used a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) “boot camp” as an opportunity to fine-tune a personal statement and work on leadership skills. Eric Vang, a senior in biology, saw it as a chance to network and start planning ahead for research opportunities. Monge, Vang and [...]

Black History & Liberation Month at UWM offers a look into the present lives, rich history and diverse perspectives of African Americans and the African Diaspora. Events are free and open to the public, unless indicated. For more information, contact Union Sociocultural Programming, 414-229-3894, sociocul@uwm.edu. Monday, Feb. 11: “FAIS DANSER LA POUSSIÈRE (DANCING FOREVER).” Based [...]

By Michael R. Lovell Chancellor UWM Graduation days at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are big deals, and our commencement on Dec. 16, 2012, was no exception. More than 2,200 students were eligible to participate in our ceremony. Combine those individuals with those who graduated earlier in 2012, and there were more than 5,400 students who [...]

Return to the 1960s and ’70s in an exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art History Gallery Jan. 24-Feb. 21. The gallery, located in Mitchell Hall, room 154, 3203 N. Downer Ave., is featuring the Pop Art of Andy Warhol and contemporaries in “Warhol, Et Al.” Kenneth Bendiner, chair of UWM’s Art History Department, will [...]

Two of this December’s top graduates – Nick Robinson and Otoniel Encarnacion – used that combination of work and study to find success. Robinson is graduating with a master’s degree in architecture and Encarnacion with a BBA in Finance. Throughout Encarnacion’s college career, he worked full time or near full time while also balancing full-time [...]