Articles by Brianna Schubert

Brianna Schubert sits down with her younger sister, Brooke, to talk about Brooke’s lifelong love of crafting.

Companies and institutions across the country are struggling to find workers. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a big problem, too. Brianna Schubert reports.

A line of customers overflows into the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union hallway from the Grind Café, as four baristas froth milk and pull espresso in a hurry. A student employee and a manager stand together at the cash register, taking orders behind a plexiglass window. There’s a sign taped to it that reads, “New […]

Jess Plotkin is a senior at UWM. She’s a classics major with minors in biology and chemistry, and she’s a pre-med student. She talks with Brianna Schubert about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted her mental health. (Brianna Schubert) How did the last year and a half go for you? (Jess Plotkin) It’s been very […]

Amaya Barker is a junior at UWM. She sat down with Brianna Schubert to talk about her highs and lows of the pandemic.   (Brianna Schubert) What was the hardest thing of the last year for you? (Amaya Barker) Just not feeling like I was learning something in school. It felt like I was teaching […]

Brianna Schubert sits down with her partner, Jordan Paullin, to talk about the song that means the most to him—and just so happens to remind him of her.

Liam O’Donnell has always been a sports fan. Now he’s taking that love for sports and turning it into a career.

For the first time in thirteen months, audience members took the elevator – two at a time – to the second level of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater that houses the Quadracci Powerhouse stage. There to see First Lady of Song: Alexis J. Roston Sings Ella Fitzgerald, they were greeted with Plexi glass aisles, scurrying one-by-one […]

The Honors Association for Research and Publication (HARPY) of the UWM Honors College hosted “The Beast” on Friday, May 7, an event creating a space for connection and storytelling among students, faculty and staff about dealing with the “beasts” they live with both within themselves and in the outside world. HARPY is a student-led organization […]

Meet Tiff Polzin, a third-year student at UWM studying music theater, dance and psychology. Being constantly overbooked and doing school primarily virtually this semester due to COVID-19 has brought on a lot of anxiety for this self-proclaimed perfectionist. In this short documentary, Brianna Schubert shows us the struggle and beauty of endlessly striving to be […]

TEDxUWMilwaukee hosted their first of three events in their 2021 Virtual Conference Series on Saturday, April 24, the speakers using the art of storytelling to share the importance of education and leaving the fear behind. The 2021 Virtual Conference Series, with the theme “Our City, Our Story,” was originally scheduled to be an in-person conference […]

Milwaukee health officials think COVID-fatigue and the UK variant of the virus may be leading to a rise in COVID-19 cases despite vaccinations becoming widely available, causing them to reduce capacity limits in the city. According to the press release from the Milwaukee Health Department, the seven-day rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people is […]