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Within the bowels of the urban planning and architecture building exists a fully equipped woodshop. An arsenal of specialized tools is available to all students within the School of Architecture and Urban planning. This is where students gain hands on experience, constructing physical models of what they have created intellectually. Geoff Marshall reports.

UW-Milwaukee is home to many veterans. The university sponsored a breakfast to honor their service. Pakou Lee reports.

Double Reed Day at UW-Milwaukee was open to double reed players of all ages and levels. The UWM Music Department’s double reed faculty joined other players for master classes, performances, and workshops. Morgan Paradis reports.

A coalition of student groups came together to voice opposition to Republican policies at the Milwaukee Theatre. Ean Holtz reports.

The UWM Union Bookstore is looking ahead to big changes for spring semester: a new online method for students to purchase, rent or download texts and a portal for selling back books at the end of the semester. Tess Elkins reports.

UW-Madison has hired consultant Darin Harris to go around to each of the 14 UW campuses in order to gain feedback for new strategic planning that would be implemented by spring 2016. On Oct. 28, UWM held its first listening session. Many of the people who spoke at the meeting had similar concerns, but it […]

For UW-Milwaukee students, the campus broadcast TV newscast is more than a class. It’s a family. Michael Atteberry reports.

As UW-Milwaukee hosted the city-wide kickoff of the annual Make a Difference Day for the first time on a recent Saturday, one of the people students helped was 79-year-old Eleanor Quint, who needed a hand preparing for winter. Quint was right there with the students with a rake in hand. She sported a blue, fall jacket, […]

Why not listen local? Here are 6 Milwaukee bands you should be listening to. Fever Marlene This quirky pop/rock group does Milwaukee proud. Their melodies sound experimental, while fitting seamlessly within the rock genre. Their unique rock n’ roll attitude towards pop is appreciated by more than just us locals, Fever Marlene has toured with […]

College is expensive. That is a well-known fact. College also creates debt. Lots of it. Over a trillion in the U.S., in fact. The measures students take to rid themselves of their ever steepening mountain of debt typically range from working part/full time jobs to applying for scholarships. That doesn’t quite do the trick anymore. […]

Matt Tiby, a senior forward on the men’s basketball team at UW-Milwaukee, certainly has not had the easiest road to playing Division I hoops. Despite averaging 19 points and 13 rebounds in his senior year at Urbandale High School in Urbandale, Iowa, Tiby did not have any offers from Division I schools. Not wanting to […]

Students Yuehua Zhao and Yan Yan Wang drew students’ names in Chinese, revealing the meaning. Student Hannah Thao was serving tea. Black and green teas are very popular in China. There was also helper Sylvester Schilteis, cutting paper into beautiful designs that are popular in China. During this time of the month, it is known […]