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UWM Chancellor Mark Mone took on a series of questions from a panel of journalists at the Milwaukee Press Club located in downtown Milwaukee. Mone was chosen as chancellor of UWM in December of 2015, succeeding Michael Lovell who took was named president of Marquette University. Mone had served on the faculty in the UWM […]

UWM has a notably diverse campus. Students from all over the globe come to study history and art, research science and chemistry, or play in Panther sports with the hopes getting to the big leagues. There is one thing that brings everyone together; we’ve all got to eat. Between the downstairs Union station, The Gasthaus […]

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, […]

Littered with the remains of a once thriving industrial sector, Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood spawns dense clusters of rusted-out warehouses and long-forgotten telephone wires. The sights along Greenfield Avenue are awash with urban decay. To the north lies a sprawling vacant parking lot, slowly being reclaimed by thickets of yellowing prairie grass. A cracked and […]

When you arrive on a college campus, everything is new and exciting: new housing, new classes and new friends. For some people, though, meeting those new friends can sometimes be a challenge. At UWM, the perfect place to start new friendships is the Klotsche Center. Hundreds of people use the facility each day, whether it’s […]

The waves of Lake Michigan crash along the shore of Bradford Beach. Even though it’s April and only 40 degrees outside, people are still enjoying Lake Park. During the lunch hour, people eat in their cars, watching the waves. Others walk their dogs. Another person, a man with long, dark facial hair wearing a neon […]

On Wednesday April 1, UWM’s CAB Coffeehouse crew, a club promoting local performers, presented a spring concert, the April Fools Music Bash, in the Unions Fireside Lounge. Essences of colorful lights circling the small stage in back of the room welcomed open mic performers onto the stage. The UWM CAB, Campus Activity Board, Coffeehouse is […]

“He was killed.” Jasmine Jackson, a current student at UWM, described as she recalled the homicide of her child’s father. “I don’t know. Someone just found him in an alley, shot in the head.” For many UWM students of color, survival isn’t guaranteed while living in one of America’s most segregated cities. Yet, UWM is […]

Karen Kramer pulled her wide-eyed, 22-year-old daughter, Becky, into a hug. She held her daughter tight, so she could hear her heart beating rapidly. As Karen kissed her daughter’s blonde head, tears rolled down Karen’s cheeks onto Becky’s pale, bruised skin. The two sat for hours, talking and crying. Karen begged Becky to stay. To […]

JAMS 204 students know that brevity is powerful.

There are smiles on everyone’s faces as Ryan Olson expertly holds two leashes in his left hand, a hound at the end of one and a rat terrier mix on the end of the other and aims the camera of a smart phone in his right. Opposite of Olson poses Nicole Pierce, with a Pitbull […]

Since graduating from UW-Milwaukee in 2014 with a degree in Human Resource Management, Rachele Voigt has been busy revamping her closet to fit her new career oriented lifestyle. While studying at UWM, Voigt was interning within a financial services firm in the human resources department, where she has since transitioned into a full time associate. […]