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 […]

UW-Milwaukee Campus Might go ‘Smoke Free’

The Physical Environment Committee of UW-Milwaukee has re-proposed the idea for UWM go possibly go smoke-free, meaning students who smoke on campus blocks will have to find a place off campus to smoke. The public campus smoking policy currently in place offers inclusive zones for smokers in higher traffic areas such as patio sections and […]

UWM Faculty Sign the “Fund the Freeze” Pledge

The UW-Milwaukee Faculty Senate Committee passed a pledge that supports funding the tuition freeze set in place by the UW Board of Regents. By signing the pledge, UWM Faculty are petitioning for the increase of state funding to offset the amount of money UW-System schools have lost since the tuition freeze. The 40 members of […]

UW-Milwaukee Geography Department May Update GIS Master’s Program

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Geography Department is working on updating the GIS Master’s program, which teaches a technical mapping software. The faculty are looking to change different courses throughout the program. Allison Donnelly, associate professor at UWM, said that this program is very useful. “GIS is Geographical Information Science, and it’s a way of mapping […]