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UW-Milwaukee journalism students have won three first-place regional Mark of Excellence awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, SPJ announced Monday. The first-place award winners – for best online college news reporting, television news reporting, and television broadcast – now advance to the national SPJ competition. The Mark of Excellence awards “honor the best of collegiate […]

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 […]

The UW-Milwaukee Women’s Resource Center held a warm-up event for Equal Pay Day on April 13. Qixin Xu has the story.

Taylor Duffrin, 20, is one of the many students you can find hooping outside in the grassy areas of Spaight’s Plaza at UWM. Hooping is a popular new trend among many students. Ellie Malone reports.

Graduating with a major in finance, a minor in economics and earning an international business certificate, UW-Milwaukee student Ana Fuentes has a future full of numbers. Ask her to calculate any equation and within seconds, if not minutes, she would have the answer. Numbers may come first in her life, but what most people don’t […]

On the first Wednesday of March each year, the Best Buddies organization holds a Spread the Word to End the Word campaign in order to raise awareness about the use of the R-word. The campaign asks people to pledge to stop using the R-word in hopes that it will lead to a more conscious awareness […]

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.

Spring is a season of change, especially for UWM. This time of year, Panthers’ Baseball starts, the weather gets warmer, and Downer Woods begins to bloom. The university is facing cuts and restructuring that could alter the whole University of Wisconsin System. The budget includes a provision that changes the legal protections on Downer Woods. […]

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 […]

Over 50 of UW-Milwaukee’s women’s studies and philosophy members joined together on March 5 to welcome Alison Jaggar, author and pioneer of feminist philosophy, at her event “Hearts Starve as Well as Bodies.” Jaggar came to Milwaukee from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she leads their departments of philosophy and gender studies. During […]

It wasn’t a calm and quiet Saturday night in the union on April 4. Because the ballroom was home to Hmong Student Association’s second annual “I am Hmoob.” The cultural program showcased a variety of performances, as well traditional Hmong dancing, and singing. Over 100 people were in attendance for the event including students, community […]

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.