Features

An apartment is more than a place to crash for Melissa Leverenz. She and her roommates make it a home.  

As James Christensen walks into the UW-Milwaukee Cambridge Common, he’s ecstatic as usual. His security badge picture matches the smile on his face. Wrapped around his neck is a bowtie, the one thing he’s especially known for around campus. He clocks in. He straps on a heavy set of keys to his belt. He sits […]

Meghan Murphy-Lee is not just your average teacher. Along with teaching Russian, she also teaches another course that might come as a surprise.  Murphy-Lee simply calls it “Vampire Class.” “I thought it would be an interesting class for the students, but also something that’s interesting to teach,” said Murphy-Lee about her vampire class. This vampire […]

Joshua March is a recent UWM broadcast journalism graduate who still plays an important role in PantherVision and UWM’s Broadcast Club. He says he is continuously inspired by the work that Senior Lecturer Mark Zoromski does for the technical side of the Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies Department at UW-Milwaukee. When Zoromski came to UWM, […]

The 7th floor of the Chase tower is home to WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio, and it is typically a very busy place, but when Rachel Owens arrives for work, the floor is empty and it’s dark both inside and outside. She is the new host of the Morning Edition program on WUWM. Each day starts […]

Devin Quello, a sophomore at UWM, may seem like your “Average Joe” when seen on campus, but off-campus, he’s much more. Quello spends a lot of time in the studio writing and producing his own music. He also spends time performing drag-like numbers to his own songs. Hunter Hanthorn reports.

UW-Milwaukee’s PantherVision won the Student Award of Excellence for best collegiate Television Newscast for the fifth consecutive year at the 2015 WBA, Wisconsin Broadcast Association, Student Seminar. The WBA is a trade association that promotes, supports and represents all of the TV and radio broadcast in the state of Wisconsin. The WBA Student Seminar, which […]

Aamani Carter is a freshman at UW-Milwaukee and one of the few student performers at the 2015 UWM Annual Drag Show in the Milwaukee Theatre. He shared the experience of transforming into his drag persona, Gluttoni Sinn. Reported by Sarah DeGeorge.

Lisa Mueller began her undergraduate degree at UWM as an art history major, but realized her interests were in science. After changing her major to biochemistry Lisa found a new career path in research. She is now a graduate student at UWM working in Dr. Silvaggi’s lab. Lisa plans on graduating this year with hopes […]

There are widely known perspectives about cancer and triumphant efforts to discover a cure from the life-threatening disease, but what about lesser known chronic diseases and the people who live with them? Lupus, an auto-immune disease capable of taking lives, is one of those lesser-known, worldwide illnesses that also thrives without a cure. My mother, […]

Eighth Note Coffeehouse is located on the ground floor of the UW-Milwaukee’s Student Union. It is a student run organization that sells coffee and tea. Many come there for the drinks and stay for student events and friends. Emily Halas reports.

Kyle Noll is working on getting his master’s degree in volcanic studies at UW-Milwaukee. In his free time, he uses his favorite past time and love for billiards to teach students at the UWM Union Rec Center. Dylan Deprey reports.