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Cudahy celebrated two holidays, Earth Day and Arbor Day, at City Hall this past Saturday, with a citywide trash pick-up in the morning and annual tree planting ceremony in the afternoon. The city was recognized for its 22nd year as a member of the Tree City USA program, which is a tree planting and tree […]

Complete coverage: multimedia project The middle-aged woman greets a visitor with a weary smile. “I have been in meetings since eleven a.m.” said Bonnie Halvorsen Associate Dean of UW-Milwaukee’s School of Public Health. It was the end of the day. Halvorsen does not mind the meetings, because once the chaos clears the School of Public […]

Danny Schmalz walks over to his record player and old milk crate full of records. Most of them are secondhand funk and rock n’ roll LPs from the 60’s and 70’s. “Think of what Sly had to go through!” says Schmalz, as he begins to play “There’s a Riot Going On” by Sly and the […]

Complete coverage: multimedia project College students constantly worry about finding a job right away after getting their degrees. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee junior Samantha Bear is no exception. She goes to class for hours, works a part-time job, and then has homework. With graduation right around the corner, Bear and her classmates are all concerned about […]

When 4th grade teacher Vicki Schmitz sent a request to the Arbor Day Foundation, she expected to be sent a few saplings to use to teach her students about the growth cycle of trees. Instead, her class at Lloyd Street School was invited to participate in the Arbor Day Celebration at the Boerner Botanical Gardens […]

Various pieces of L’MAR lie on counters and on the floor of the cluttered lab. On one desk, a student tinkers with a motherboard connected to a Nintendo 64 controller. L’MAR’s robotics lie on a table, waiting to be connected to a wheeled platform. Finally, a tether with a radio transmitter will be attached to […]

Nichole Graves lives in Thiensville. She is a student at UWM and does not have a car. How does she get to campus every day? “I take the 49U from Brown Deer, Graves said. The bus comes about every 40 minutes, which can mean a long wait and an even longer round trip. What would […]

Chris Abele, after receiving the concession call from Rep. Jeff Stone at the Historic Pabst Brewery, took the podium to speak to a crowd of cheering supporters on election night and pledged to accept new ideas from both sides of the political debate. The philanthropist, who resoundingly flipped control of the county executive’s office back […]

As he sat in his family’s hut trembling and absorbing the sizzling Uganda heat, Victor Ochen wondered if this was the day he will be kidnapped like the thousands of people in Uganda due to the countries long war with the Lord’s Resistance Army, also known as LRA.  However, unlike so many others in his […]

MILWAUKEE–Arthur Kleinman M.D., a distinguished medical anthropologist, spoke of empathy and human understanding to a packed UW-Milwaukee auditorium Friday, and touched on a variety of topics from China’s booming middle class to the lingering specter of Maoism which still haunts China today. China’s middle class currently consists of about 200 million people.  By the year […]

UW-Milwaukee’s public relations club hosted its monthly meeting on strategic social media usage, stating that Twitter is the most effective and important site in the professional world. Members of UW-Milwaukee’s PRSSA Chapter, Public Relations Student Society of America brought their laptops to the university union to network, create accounts and receive insight from professional social […]

Polka lives on every Wednesday night at Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall on Milwaukee’s south side. Accordion and concertina players collaborate with a drummer or a harmonica player to keep Wisconsin’s state dance alive at the polka open jam. The musicians do not sign up for their time on stage like a typical open jam at […]