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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.

Outdoor Pursuits is bringing the latest trend in yoga to campus. It is a mash up between paddle boarding and Vinyasa flow yoga called standup paddleboard yoga, or SUP yoga for short. Mary Sherman, UWM student and SUP instructor explains that this type of yoga builds strength, flexibility, and is a great way to have […]

Hip-hop music fills the halls of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s student union every Monday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. as 18 dancers sweat, learn choreography and express themselves in sync with the rhythm. Hype dance team offers Wisconsin college students a chance to express themselves in an active and creative outlet while building relationships with like […]

In room 154 of Mitchell Hall, the Art History Gallery currently features one of the largest collections held in the UWM Art Collection, the Reflections on a Collection, an exhibition that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Rogers Family Collection of Greek and Russian Christian icons to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The exhibit’s […]

Students gathered in the Union Concourse March 4 to make the pledge to “Spread the Word to End the Word” and to get their pictures taken afterwards. Tables aligned with piles of shirts containing the phrase “Spread the Word to End the Word” lead the front of this display along with large white boards with […]

University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross was welcomed to UWM with a cold reception. Cross came to Milwaukee as part of a series of budget meetings held across the UW System. The only audible approval Cross received was when Richard Grusin, a UWM English professor and director of 21st Century Studies, asked, “Given your repeated […]

UW-Milwaukee’s Manfred Olson Planetarium hosted a cross-campus scavenger hunt finishing up with a show hosted by director Jean Creighton inside the campus planetarium.  Guests started the scavenger hunt inside the Union, went through Bolton, Lubar and Lapham halls, ending in the Physics building where the planetarium is located.  Guests of all ages were encouraged to […]

Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska, Dean of the UWM Graduate School, apologizes to a conference center filled with UWM faculty and staff. “Apologies that there is no dinner,” Gajdardziska-Josifovska says. “I guess this is the start of our budget cuts.” The room erupts in laughter at the timely joke. The UWM faculty and staff members have gathered in […]

Several months of tension finally broke Friday morning when UW-Milwaukee’s Institutional Review Board approved a proposal set forth by the members of Transforming Justice that would give community members a unique and personal voice on the subject of prevalent social issues in Milwaukee, such as racial prejudice and mass incarceration, by creating a public archive […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students and staff may soon get used seeing personal pronouns become a standard topic of conversation on campus. Whether it is actress Laverne Cox appearing on the cover of TIME or Bruce Jenner’s status dominating gossip conversations, the transgender community has received a dramatic increase in visibility on the national level. The […]

For students at UW-Milwaukee, the death of Tony Robinson hits home not only because of the closeness of Madison to Milwaukee, but because students could have likely crossed paths with Robinson next year when he would have attended Milwaukee Area Technical College if he had lived. At UWM, Robinson’s death is also igniting and rekindling […]

UW-Milwaukee is currently examining the possibilities of furloughs and retirement incentives, as ways of mitigating the possible damage of the proposed $300 million cut within Governor Scott Walker’s budget proposal, it was announced at the UWM faculty senate meeting. According to Rebecca Klaper, a member of the Academic Planning and Budget Committee (APBC), the committee […]