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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 […]

UW-Milwaukee’s public relations club held its November portfolio meeting this past Friday in the university union with two guest speakers who discussed the necessity to use social media and the importance of having strong writing skills. Guest Speakers The school’s PRSSA, Public Relations Student Society of America, Chapter invited John Gardner, Senior Account Executive at […]

University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin students and faculty called for solidarity and the need for well-funded public education at a protest today in response to Scott Walker’s budget proposals. Members of the Students for a Democratic Society and Milwaukee Graduate Students Association led the noon walkout, which was part of the National Day of Action to Defend […]

Bob Burkart-Lemke couldn’t help but smile as he heard the sound of makeshift drums and the faint buzzing of a vuvuzela. The retired science teacher of 30 years and UW-Milwaukee alum doesn’t mince words when it comes to his beliefs. And Lemke believes it is a good thing that students are responding en masse. Lemke […]

Lecturer Tess Gallun’s documentary, Out of Respect: A Story of Five, premiered to a sold-out audience in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lubar Auditorium in February. The film traces the rejection, hardship, spirit and resilience in the lives of five LGBT young people aging out of Milwaukee’s foster care system. Watch the trailer and listen to […]

Soledad O’Brien gave a speech from New York via Skype for the Evening to Promote Racial Justice Wednesday about how experiences from her childhood and career made her more aware of racism in America and the power one individual can have in making change. Force winds in New York and snow in Chicago prevented O’Brien […]