University of Wisconsin Milwaukee News

A new analysis of Wisconsin's budget woes puts the state among the 10 most fiscally challenged in the country, joining California in a group struggling to sustain solvency.

"Thank you for your service." Lots of veterans will be hearing that today, Veterans Day.

Thanks to "good old-fashioned cop shoe leather," four people are in custody in connection with a series of robberies in Fresno and Clovis, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Friday.

AP A Milwaukee Army reservist's military identification gained him some street cred Tuesday, when he says four men who mugged him at gunpoint returned his belongings, and thanked him for his service, after finding the ID.

Boston Public Library , Johnson Bldg., Mezzanine Conference Room. The Mapping of Africa , a presentation by Richard and Penelope Betz, antique map dealers and authors of "The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700 ", one of the fundamental reference books on antique African maps.

Dear Colleagues: Please contribute to the wiki page for the "On the Challenges of Implementing Library 2.0 Services" panel at the 2009 ASIS&T annual meeting.

When the Alliance for Water Stewardship, a new international water standards group, asked Milwaukee to host its North American office recently, it should have provided a morale boost to the city's ambitions to become a global center of water technology.

While only one in 10 male engineers leave their field by the time they reach their 30s, about one in four women are not working in engineering despite having completed the necessary education.

Police are stepping up patrols in the area near the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

Is cloud computing inevitable? Maybe , but IT still has a lot of questions to ask before floating away on its promises, according to Melissa Woo, director of cyberinfrastructure and network and operations services at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Michael Dieckmann, CIO at the University of West Florida, thinks otherwise and the two spent ...

Diane Dahl is the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge's Artist-in-Resident through November.

It's a do-or-die week for Milwaukee public schools. A decision over who will control the state's largest school system could be made in the next several days.

Oct. 29, 2009 8:00 a.m. Developer Doug Weas has dropped plans to buy the Columbia Hospital complex, next to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, that university officials hope to convert into space for student housing, and other purposes.

The Oshkosh West Basketball Club will hold its fourth annual Tip Off Dinner & Auction on Monday at Hilton Garden Inn in Oshkosh.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials are looking at land UWM currently owns, such as near its Great Lakes Water Institute in Walker's Point, for locating the new School of Freshwater Sciences.

As four new deaths in Wisconsin are linked to swine flu, a shortage of vaccine is causing health workers to cancel upcoming vaccination clinics.

Her name is Noelle and she's about to give birth, but she isn't a real mother-to-be. Noelle is a simulated mom who's helping senior nursing students learn how to take care of mothers and newborns during and after childbirth.

Oct. 27, 2009 6:03 p.m. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee may halt its nearly $100,000 yearly payment to Milwaukee County for student and staff parking on the lakefront, if the county proceeds plans to install $1-an-hour meters there.

In the recent past, researchers might have traveled for hours to reach a research library in order to use its collection.

At the climax of his Milwaukee appearance Saturday night, Ira Glass told the tale of Scheherazade, the maiden who saved her own life by transfixing a murderous king with 1,001 nights of irresistible stories.