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Student journalists with Media Milwaukee, UW-Milwaukee’s student news site in the Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies Department, won 14 Wisconsin College Media Association awards, including multiple awards for two major journalism immersion projects on the presidential election and water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Two talented UWM students – Sabrina Johnkins and Nyesha Stone – were […]

Eric Bledsoe’s first triple-double as a Buck helped boost Milwaukee past the Orlando Magic and into the sixth seed, in the final regular season game at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. The Milwaukee Bucks wrapped up the last regular season game at the BMO and took care of business without having Giannis Antetokounmpo in the […]

The University Committee at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee held a meeting this week to discuss the university’s upcoming merger with UW-Waukesha and UW-Washington County; it quickly became evident that several issues and deadlines are plaguing the merger. “I’m really concerned about where we are,” said UWM Provost Johannes Britz. On top of everything, Britz pointed out that […]

UW- Milwaukee students gathered in UWM’s Gasthaus Monday night for a night of food, fun and Panther basketball.  “More people are at the games now that we are better,” Trista Deuster, a member of the Panther Pit crew, said. “A lot of students are more enthusiastic, and I’m seeing new faces at games.” School pride […]

World Socialist Web Site reporter Andre Damon explained to an audience at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  about why people read “fake news” and gave insight into why he believes censorship is taking over a lot of media’s content. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality, also known as IYSSE, held the public event in the UW-Milwaukee West Ballroom. […]

The UW-Milwaukee Physical Environment Committee will be forming a sub-committee to update the campus smoking policy to fully ban smoking on campus property, according to David Heathcote, chair of the Physical Environment Committee. “The Student Association has really been the driving force behind the smoking ban,” said UWM Chancellor Mark Mone.   On Nov. 19, […]

Hugs from behind. A female student being called a “sexual animal.” Breast-groping. References to pole dancing and “sugar daddies.” An alleged sexual assault. Those are just a few of the accusations uncovered in a revealing set of documents released by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UW-Madison paid out more than $500,000 to settle sexual harassment and […]

UW-Milwaukee students reported feeling pressure from the media to project a certain, often unattainable image of themselves and to live and look the part for a perfect “Instagrammable” life in an open discussion on March 1 as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Senior Maddie Kane shared her thoughts on the influence of the […]

Rabbi Shaul Judelman is Jewish. Noor Al-Bein is Muslim. Though they are of opposite belief, they come together to try and create peace in the Middle East. With the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel, Judelman moved from Seattle to Israel curious to find out who “we” is. In other words, the people of the […]

It’s the battlefield of a generation. The high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the nation’s third-deadliest school shooting, ignited a movement that brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets of Washington, D.C. and to protests throughout the country. The survivors of Sandy Hook Elementary were too young to lead the movement. The teenagers […]

Rock for Wishes, a charity concert that raises money for the Make-A-Wish foundation, rocked another successful year to raise money for children with terminal illness.  

Michael Newman is a professor at UWM, and the author of the book Atari Age. I asked him about the games he played growing up and what he plays into adulthood. https://youtu.be/kd5-pR6f0VU