The Art of Hooping: A Growing Trend

Hula-hooping, notorious in the rave and festival scene, is a growing trend as more people take up the art form for different reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUs1J18lEKQ

UWM Love Your Melon Crew Has Come a Long Way

Back in 2012, Zachary Quinn and Brian Keller were just a couple of college sophomores at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. The two friends were paired up for a class project in an entrepreneurship course, where they came up with the idea for Love Your Melon. Love Your Melon’s mission was […]

MKE Eco Tour: A Look at the City’s Connection to Water

It was 11:30 a.m. Dense clouds loomed over the city skyline, and a large, white boat bobbed up and down in the murky, blue water of the Milwaukee Harbor. The Neeskay is the primary research vessel for the UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences, according to tour guide Lindsay Frost, but students on the MKE Eco […]

A Diagnosis Inspires a Career

UWM student Kourtney Scroggins shares her most devastating life experience, and how it inspired her to study early childhood education.

Swimmers Dare To Test The Waters Of Lake Michigan

Many people come to Klode Park in Whitefish Bay to admire the views and walk along the beach. While some occasionally wade into Lake Michigan, one group of people, known as the Klode Kru, like to swim two to three miles in it. The rest of the Kru plans to wait until the water temperature is warmer, […]

UWM Environmentalism Group Meets to Revitalize Milwaukee’s Sustainability

On a Thursday evening when the clock is nearing 8 p.m., Andrew Melian and his girlfriend Autumn Ehlinger stand examining the artwork on the walls of UW-Milwaukee’s Mitchell Hall. They are awaiting any participants in a discussion Melian has organized to discuss what he views as one of society’s most daunting pandemics: climate change. Melian […]

Through the lens of Justin Gordon

Justin Gordon spends an entire Sunday doing what he loves and that’s taking pictures of the world around him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwEYvzjKPZE