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Kohler Trust for Clean Water gives $2.5 million to UWM for Great Lakes research
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will supercharge its Great Lakes research thanks to a $2.5 million gift from the Kohler Trust for Clea...
Read More$1.3 million gift moves UWM closer to new research vessel
The Kohler Trust for Clean Water has given the UWM Foundation $1.3 million toward construction of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Scho...
Read MoreMicrosoft gives UWM $1.2 million for Connected Systems Institute at UWM
Microsoft has given $1.2 million to the UWM Foundation to support the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Connected Systems Institute. The...
Read MoreNorthwestern Mutual Data Science Institute extended through 2028
The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, a partnership between UWM, Marquette University and Northwestern Mutual, has been extended t...
Read MoreZilber Family Foundation gives $20 million to UWM’s Zilber College of Public Health
Today, Zilber Family Foundation presented the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health with a record-...
Read MoreKikkoman gives $2 million for new UWM research vessel
Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc. has pledged to give $2 million to the UWM Foundation to support construction of the University of Wisconsin-M...
Read MorePhilanthropy renews support for program that supports art teachers
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies has renewed its support for UWM’s ArtsECO program with a two-year grant of $850,000. ArtsECO is a ...
Read MoreFrom the Chancellor: Introducing Joan Nesbitt
Dear Friends, I am pleased to tell you that Joan Nesbitt, UWM’s new vice chancellor for development and alumni relations, stepped into her...
Read MoreScholarship Established in Memory of Arlie Max Mucks
It is with deep sympathy that the faculty and staff at the UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science note the passing of Arlie Max Mu...
Read MoreBrookby Foundation Gives $1 Million for Research Vessel
The Brookby Foundation has committed $1 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in support of the School of Freshwater Sciences’ ...
Read MoreEngineering Alumni Establish Memorial Fund to Support CEAS Pre-College Programs
UWM alumni Daniel Schlitz (’92 MS Engineering) and Lei Schlitz (’98 PhD Engineering), recently established the Diane K. Schlitz ...
Read MoreFire Circle at UWM Honors Native American Presence
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is installing a fire circle in front of Merrill Hall to recognize Milwaukee’s Indigenous peoples and...
Read MoreOvation Jewish Home Names New Nursing Professor in Aging
A gift from Ovation Communities, supported by the Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation, will advance the work of Murad Taani (pictured on ...
Read MoreNadellas Donate $2 Million to UWM to Increase Diversity in Tech Education
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received $2 million from UWM alumnus and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his wife, Anu Nadella. Th...
Read MoreYoung Alum Creates Scholarship Honoring Mom
Just a few weeks after Darian Dixon ’15 gave the UWM commencement address, he made a decision to help other UWM students cross the fin...
Read MoreBud and Sue Selig Give $1 Million to UWM’s Lubar Entrepreneruship Center
While Bud Selig has often credited his mother, Marie, for his love of baseball, he credits his father, Ben Selig, for inspiring his entrepre...
Read MoreMicrosoft Donates Over $1.5 Million for Connected Systems Institute
Microsoft President Brad Smith (pictured left, with UWM Chancellor Mark Mone, center, and Rockwell Automation CEO Blake Moret, right) pledge...
Read MoreUWM Receives $10 Million Donation for New Great Lakes Research Vessel
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received a $10 million donation toward construction of a new research vessel intended to help ad...
Read MoreHere’s what $251 million in fundraising means: ‘The gifts really touch every corner of UWM’
A quarter billion dollars. By the end of the most ambitious fundraising campaign in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s history...
Read MoreUWM Completes Record Fundraising Campaign
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) announced Thursday its multi-year fundraising effort has brought in $251 million. The fundrais...
Read MoreOrthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin’s $2.1M gift supports Klotsche expansion at UW-Milwaukee
A $2.1 million gift from the Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will support the planned expansion...
Read MoreUWM’S Zilber School of Public Health Receives $2.5 Million for Scholarships
The Zilber Family Foundation has awarded the UWM Foundation $2.5 million to support scholarships at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’...
Read MoreUWM Exceeds $200 Million Fundraising Campaign Target
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials said Monday the university has exceeded its $200 million goal for its comprehensive fundraisi...
Read MoreUWM Foundation Beats the NACUBO Average for One, Three, Five and Ten Year Returns
The National Association of College and University Business Officers conducts an annual survey of investment returns realized by endowments ...
Read MoreFormer Scholarship Recipient Gives UWM $2 Million
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee alumnus and former scholarship recipient Avi Shaked, along with his wife, Babs Waldman, MD, has given the ...
Read MoreUWM Awarded $900,000 State Grant to Support Connected Systems Institute
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) announced on December 11, 2017, that it awarded a $900,000 grant to the University of ...
Read MoreUWM Starts Connected Systems Institute With $1.7 Million From Rockwell Automation
On November 1, 2017, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone announced a $1.7 million gift from Rockwell Automation to suppor...
Read MoreUWM Launches Historic $200 Million Campaign
On September 25, 2017, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone announced that UWM had launched the public phase of a $200 mil...
Read MoreScholarship Reception Brings Donors and Students Together
UWM held its largest ever scholarship reception on November 2, 2017, in the Student Union. Nearly 350 donors, students, family members, frie...
Read MoreScholarships Attract the Best
Lead scholarship donors Avi Shaked ’80 and his wife, Babs Waldman, MD, have had an incomparable impact on engineering students at UWM. Sin...
Read MoreSchool of Ed Duo Creates Scholarship
Rob Longwell-Grice, a senior advisor in the School of Education, conducts research related to first-generation college students and what it ...
Read MoreHerzfeld Foundation Gives UWM $1.5 Million for Innovation, Research
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received a $1.5 million gift from the Herzfeld Foundation in October 2016. The university’s Inno...
Read MoreBusiness Alum Gives $1 Million to Athletics
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Athletics Department has received a $1 million gift from alumnus Fred Sitzberger, president of acc...
Read MoreUWM Grad Jerry Jendusa Gives $1 Million for Entrepreneurship
UWM alumnus Jerry Jendusa has committed $1 million to the Lubar Center for Entrepreneurship in support of an entrepreneur-in-residence progr...
Read MoreNew Professorship Honors Gale and Judi Klappa
Retired WEC Energy Group CEO Gale Klappa and his wife, Judith, have been honored with a professorship named for them at the University of Wi...
Read MoreKelben Foundation Gives $5 Million to UWM for Faculty, Scholarships and Entrepreneurship
Chancellor Mark Mone of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee today announced that the Kelben Foundation, a family foundation established by...
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