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The body that Milwaukee Police pulled from the Milwaukee River last night has been identified by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner as University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student Sean Baek, 18, who had been missing for 45 days. Milwaukee Police said yesterday that they responded to a report of a body in the river near a pier […]

Milwaukee police say a body was found in the Milwaukee River today near Fratney and Commerce in Riverwest. According to Milwaukee police, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Department also responded to the call. (Update: on March 31, 2020, it was confirmed that the body was that of missing UWM student Sean Baek. You can read […]

In a conference room on the first floor of Cambridge Commons residence hall, just down the hall from the main entrance where University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student Sean Baek was last seen almost three weeks earlier, a vigil was held for him. The standard refreshments sat on a table on one side of the room. Flanking […]

This story was published in the UWM Post on March 18. As the world continues rolling into unprecedented times, and the coronavirus pandemic surges on, the UW System is leaving student employees out of their COVID-19 leave policies. On March 16, Andres Valdez went to work at the Klotsche Center. At 11:35 a.m., Valdez and other Rec […]

At the most recent Faculty Senate meeting Chancellor Mark Mone told UWM faculty members that the university faces “financial need,” and it is a “moral imperative” to fix declining enrollment and well bellow-average student retention rates. UWM needs to focus on improving student life to make students currently attending UWM want to stay, and prospective […]

Emilio Del Torre highlighted the importance of being prepared while interacting with law enforcement officers, when speaking during a ‘Know Your Rights’ training at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union. “Law enforcement can lie to you, but you can not lie to law enforcement,” Del Torre expresses to the crowd of about 50 people. The representative […]

The Age of Solastalgia: Artist Nina Elder Discusses Anxiety of Environmental Change at UWM  Undergraduates, professors and community members gathered in UWM’s Curtin Hall for a casual conversation about art, museum archives and environmentalism, a discussion based on a fairly new word to the English language: solastalgia. Artist, researcher and environmentalist Nina Elder hosted the […]

From diving on the court for loose balls, trying to block out big guys, to making game winners, there has been huge improvement from Lucas over the course of his two seasons at Milwaukee. Lucas played for Illinois his first two years until transferring back to his hometown in Milwaukee. “This is my home,” Lucas said when asked about his transfer process. […]

Chancellor Mark Mone announced that University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be extending spring break from March 15 to March 29 to prepare for online classes after announcing a UWM Foundation employee was tested for COVID-19 this morning. The employee being tested came into contact with someone who recently traveled to a third world country.  It’s not […]

Leaders and department chairs from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee met Tuesday morning to discuss the potentiality and logistics of face-to-face instruction being suspended after spring break to help prevent a local coronavirus outbreak. No decision was made at the meeting, but one might be expected next week over spring break, according to Provost Johannes Britz. […]

UWM Drag Show 2020 hosted over 1,600 viewers; many praised the performance and its impact on the community.