UWM FOUNDATION’S IMPACT

March 11, 2025

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will supercharge its Great Lakes research thanks to a $2.5 million gift from the Kohler Trust for Clea...

$1.3 million gift moves UWM closer to new research vessel

April 4, 2024

The Kohler Trust for Clean Water has given the UWM Foundation $1.3 million toward construction of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Scho...

Microsoft gives UWM $1.2 million for Connected Systems Institute at UWM

January 19, 2024

Microsoft has given $1.2 million to the UWM Foundation to support the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Connected Systems Institute. The...

Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute extended through 2028

August 1, 2023

The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, a partnership between UWM, Marquette University and Northwestern Mutual, has been extended t...

Zilber Family Foundation gives $20 million to UWM’s Zilber College of Public Health

July 12, 2023

Today, Zilber Family Foundation presented the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health with a record-...

Kikkoman gives $2 million for new UWM research vessel

June 9, 2023

Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc. has pledged to give $2 million to the UWM Foundation to support construction of the University of Wisconsin-M...

Philanthropy renews support for program that supports art teachers

March 9, 2023

Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies has renewed its support for UWM’s ArtsECO program with a two-year grant of $850,000. ArtsECO is a ...

From the Chancellor: Introducing Joan Nesbitt

February 7, 2022

Dear Friends, I am pleased to tell you that Joan Nesbitt, UWM’s new vice chancellor for development and alumni relations, stepped into her...

Scholarship Established in Memory of Arlie Max Mucks

February 2, 2022

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...

Brookby Foundation Gives $1 Million for Research Vessel

January 19, 2022

The Brookby Foundation has committed $1 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in support of the School of Freshwater Sciences’ ...

Engineering Alumni Establish Memorial Fund to Support CEAS Pre-College Programs

November 15, 2021

UWM alumni Daniel Schlitz (’92 MS Engineering) and Lei Schlitz (’98 PhD Engineering), recently established the Diane K. Schlitz ...

Fire Circle at UWM Honors Native American Presence

November 1, 2021

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is installing a fire circle in front of Merrill Hall to recognize Milwaukee’s Indigenous peoples and...

Ovation Jewish Home Names New Nursing Professor in Aging

October 11, 2021

A gift from Ovation Communities, supported by the Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation, will advance the work of Murad Taani (pictured on ...

Nadellas Donate $2 Million to UWM to Increase Diversity in Tech Education

September 1, 2021

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received $2 million from UWM alumnus and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his wife, Anu Nadella. Th...

Young Alum Creates Scholarship Honoring Mom

August 15, 2021

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...

Bud and Sue Selig Give $1 Million to UWM’s Lubar Entrepreneruship Center

October 8, 2020

While Bud Selig has often credited his mother, Marie, for his love of baseball, he credits his father, Ben Selig, for inspiring his entrepre...

Microsoft Donates Over $1.5 Million for Connected Systems Institute

October 8, 2020

Microsoft President Brad Smith (pictured left, with UWM Chancellor Mark Mone, center, and Rockwell Automation CEO Blake Moret, right) pledge...

UWM Receives $10 Million Donation for New Great Lakes Research Vessel

January 22, 2020

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received a $10 million donation toward construction of a new research vessel intended to help ad...

Here’s what $251 million in fundraising means: ‘The gifts really touch every corner of UWM’

September 27, 2019

A quarter billion dollars. By the end of the most ambitious fundraising campaign in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s history...

UWM Completes Record Fundraising Campaign

Philanthropy, Announcements

September 27, 2019

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) announced Thursday its multi-year fundraising effort has brought in $251 million. The fundrais...

Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin’s $2.1M gift supports Klotsche expansion at UW-Milwaukee

September 27, 2019

A $2.1 million gift from the Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will support the planned expansion...

UWM’S Zilber School of Public Health Receives $2.5 Million for Scholarships

March 22, 2019

The Zilber Family Foundation has awarded the UWM Foundation $2.5 million to support scholarships at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’...

UWM Exceeds $200 Million Fundraising Campaign Target

September 11, 2018

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials said Monday the university has exceeded its $200 million goal for its comprehensive fundraisi...

UWM Foundation Beats the NACUBO Average for One, Three, Five and Ten Year Returns

April 16, 2018

The National Association of College and University Business Officers conducts an annual survey of investment returns realized by endowments ...

Former Scholarship Recipient Gives UWM $2 Million

January 22, 2018

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee alumnus and former scholarship recipient Avi Shaked, along with his wife, Babs Waldman, MD, has given the ...

UWM Awarded $900,000 State Grant to Support Connected Systems Institute

December 19, 2017

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) announced on December 11, 2017, that it awarded a $900,000 grant to the University of ...

UWM Starts Connected Systems Institute With $1.7 Million From Rockwell Automation

December 1, 2017

On November 1, 2017, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone announced a $1.7 million gift from Rockwell Automation to suppor...

UWM Launches Historic $200 Million Campaign

December 1, 2017

On September 25, 2017, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone announced that UWM had launched the public phase of a $200 mil...

Scholarship Reception Brings Donors and Students Together

November 16, 2017

UWM held its largest ever scholarship reception on November 2, 2017, in the Student Union. Nearly 350 donors, students, family members, frie...

Scholarships Attract the Best

May 26, 2017

Lead scholarship donors Avi Shaked ’80 and his wife, Babs Waldman, MD, have had an incomparable impact on engineering students at UWM. Sin...

School of Ed Duo Creates Scholarship

March 22, 2017

Rob Longwell-Grice, a senior advisor in the School of Education, conducts research related to first-generation college students and what it ...

Herzfeld Foundation Gives UWM $1.5 Million for Innovation, Research

January 12, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received a $1.5 million gift from the Herzfeld Foundation in October 2016. The university’s Inno...

Business Alum Gives $1 Million to Athletics

October 25, 2016

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Athletics Department has received a $1 million gift from alumnus Fred Sitzberger, president of acc...

UWM Grad Jerry Jendusa Gives $1 Million for Entrepreneurship

September 30, 2016

UWM alumnus Jerry Jendusa has committed $1 million to the Lubar Center for Entrepreneurship in support of an entrepreneur-in-residence progr...

New Professorship Honors Gale and Judi Klappa

September 30, 2016

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...

Kelben Foundation Gives $5 Million to UWM for Faculty, Scholarships and Entrepreneurship