UW-Milwaukee Researchers Use Virtual Reality to Create Change

Virtual Reality is a new and powerful technology, and UW-Milwaukee’s Immersive Media Lab is working to uncover all of its possibilities. This lab is a group of students and researches from all different majors and interests including linguistics, graphic design, digital studio practice and many more. The researchers within the lab work together and independently […]

Media Milwaukee Wins Gold for Sexual Misconduct, Immersion Stories and More

Media Milwaukee student journalists won eight first-place gold awards at the 2018 Milwaukee Press Club award dinner, including top honors for the investigation into sexual harassment at UW-Milwaukee, for a semester-long exploration of opioid deaths in Milwaukee County, and for a major student immersion project that sent students to Flint, Michigan to explore the aftermath of […]

Secular Humanists of America Forms on UWM Campus

Being considered under the student organization category “religious” was most likely not Alexi Martinaios’ first choice for UW-Milwaukee club, Secular Humanists of America, which he started in January 2018. “My name is Alexi, I am the president and founder of the Secular Humanist club on campus,” Martinaios said when he stood behind the podium in […]

Milwaukee Orthodox vs. American Easter: The Difference Between

Krista Scheler, a junior at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, remembers texting her friend Eleni Triantos “Happy Easter” followed by bunny emojis. Eleni responded, “Thank you, but I’m Greek Orthodox faith, I embrace celebrating Easter on a different day than the generic store-bought calendar says to.” For Greeks, Easter, also known as Pascha, is the […]

The Twin Towers of UW-Milwaukee: Brett and Alex Prahl

When Brett and Alex Prahl walk around UW-Milwaukee’s campus, they are hard to miss. Both stand 6’9” tall, weigh in the range of 250 pounds, and have been a part of the men’s Basketball team at UWM for the last five years. People of this stature will stand out wherever they are, but many people […]

Unusual April Weather Put UWM Baseball Home Games On Hold

The UW-Milwaukee men’s baseball team is not only the only Division 1 Baseball team in the state of Wisconsin but also the only team in Division 1 Baseball to not play a home game yet. With the biggestsnowstorm in April hitting Milwaukee, the Panthers have had seven scheduled home games that have been either postponed, […]

UW-Milwaukee Releases Sexual Assault, Harassment Complaints

UW-Milwaukee released sexual assault and sexual harassment complaints against faculty and staff from 2013 to present, with cases running the gamut from a teaching assistant allegedly giving students nicknames such as “nipples” and “blondie” to a sexual assault case where the office was not able to find evidence of investigatory findings. In the latter case, […]

“The New Yorker Presents”: A Media Masterpiece

Title: The New Yorker Presents Studio: Amazon Prime Video Director: Alex Gibney (Jigsaw Productions) Main Actors: Various artists and film producers are featured throughout Run Time: 11 episodes, averaging 30 minutes each Rating: 5/5 The New Yorker Presents: A Media Masterpiece I recently stumbled upon a Facebook post that read: “How the heck did you […]

“Bucky’s Promise” Leaves other UW Students Curious to see Changes

A Media Milwaukee survey of 50 students found a divided opinion on whether or not UW-Milwaukee should develop a program like UW-Madison’s Bucky’s Promise to offer free tuition to Wisconsin residents whose families earn under $56,000. When asked, 50 percent of students said that UW-Milwaukee shouldn’t offer tuition reimbursement. They had concerns about increased taxes, […]

Summer Will Bring About Changes in UWM Parking and Transit

Due to maintenance projects being done to take care of structural issues in the garages, all of the parking garages except for the one located in the Union will be either completely or partially closed during the summer, according to the director of Parking and Transit, Prasanna Nanda. That being said, at least one major […]