Articles by Ryan Artmann

Tucked away in a second-floor room in the UWM Alumni House, developers in the UWM App Brewery are working away in a small lab fit with powerful computers and a great view of Lake Michigan. The UWM App Brewery is collaboration between schools on campus, the largest benefactor being the School of Information Studies. However, […]

This is the second story in a series exploring issues behind the headlines of the TKE controversy. You can read the first story here. The controversy over the TKE fraternity’s revocation by UW-Milwaukee and not-yet-proven allegations of date-rape drugging drove sensational headlines this fall. However, those allegations weren’t the norm. Alleged sexual assaults at UWM […]

In a small room in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Honor’s House, Michael J. Murphy, the 47th President of the Milwaukee Common Council, had an informal discussion with students and alumni about the future of Milwaukee, focusing on the city’s need to improve its public transportation system. With about only 10 people in the audience for […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Union Concourse was filled with ceremonial decorations in commemoration of Día de Los Muertos, otherwise known as The Day of the Dead. Día de Los Muertos takes place every year on Nov. 2, and this year, the Union Art Gallery and the Roberto Hernandez Center sponsored a free and public event […]

Deborah Miranda, a renowned Native American author and poet, visited the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to give a craft talk on her book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir.   Process was a prevalent theme throughout the talk. She described the 10 years she spent working on it as “drawing a river that she thought her DNA […]