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Benjamin Cadel is an undergraduate student from France and Shiv Issar is a doctoral student from India who is studying abroad at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this short documentary, they talk about what it’s like being abroad in the U.S. during the global pandemic and how it’s impacting them.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most US states issued Stay-at-Home executive orders which closed all businesses deemed unessential. People that work at businesses that are essential still have to work under the new social distancing guidelines from the CDC. Here are two are how two essential workers are navigating the new work environment in Minnesota and […]

Essential workers give their testimonies during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Going out for Mother’s Day brunch may be out of the question during pandemic conditions, but there are still gift-giving options to show appreciation for mom while maintaining social distancing. Flowers take the crown as the most popular choice, representing 69% of Mother’s Day gifts last year. Some floral options receive the spotlight (or the […]

Sip & Purr cat cafe on Milwaukee’s East Side isn’t only known as a place to cuddle with cats in the popular cat lounge, but a place to adopt. During Gov. Ever’s Safer at Home order, the cafe has organized over 25 cat adoptions since closing its doors to the public. Increases in pet adoptions […]

On March 11, an hour before boarding, gate B17 was crowded with passengers waiting to depart from Chicago to Munich when President Trump’s voice interrupted the regular TV programming, “to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days. The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight.” I found myself in ethically uncharted territory and it was rapidly transforming.

Day after day, Milwaukee nurses are on the front lines in the Wisconsin city hardest hit by Covid-19. Tom Hoffman reports.

Two in-depth journalism projects and an audio story produced by students in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies won top honors in the National Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards, SPJ announced. The contest is among the most competitive in the country; UWM students joined winners from Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, University […]

The Public Safety and Health Committee for Milwaukee county voted in favor of the ordinance which will allow police officers to write citations and arrest citizens if they violate Wisconsin’s “Safer-at-Home” order. The committee held a virtual meeting on April 21 to discuss a new ordinance relating to the enforcement of orders to protect people from Covid-19. […]

“Tingggggggg” the ringing of a chime fills the air. “You are my other me. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself,” students recite a poem called In Lak’ech, translated from Spanish to English, by Luis Valdez. The students then sit […]

It’s field trip day! Students anxiously await the limited days they get to spend away from the classroom. Little do they know, they are still going to be learning valuable lessons at the Peace Learning Center. Tracy Ebert is the executive director of the Peace Learning Center. First through eighth grade students from Milwaukee Public […]

Haley Griffin was heading into a busy week of senior classes at Berklee College of Music when she was told to pack up her studio apartment in Boston and move back to her home in Wisconsin. As a major in Professional Music at the distinguished university, Haley would now have to repurpose her suburban living […]