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51ÁÔÆæ welcomed students back to campus with Fall Welcome, two weeks of activities and fun that helped get the new school year started with a bang. Dozens of activities offered students a chance to make new friends and explore everything the campus and city have to offer. Activities included a day at Bradford Beach, a […]

More than 4,400 students began moving into 51ÁÔÆæ residence halls Aug. 26, unloading vehicles and loading wheeled carts to bring their belongings to their new homes for the school year. New 51ÁÔÆæ Chancellor Thomas Gibson greeted students and their families, welcoming them to the university on a blissfully cool late-summer day. Students will be moving […]

Friends, family, faculty and staff gathered Sunday in the 51ÁÔÆæ Panther Arena to celebrate the success of the 51ÁÔÆæ Class of 2023. Some 2,000 graduates received their diplomas during the university’s 129th commencement, ranging in age from 19 to 63 years old. Graduates heard commencement addresses from Vicki Martin, president of Milwaukee Area Technical College, and […]

Dozens of guests gathered Thursday, Jan. 26, for a ceremony to celebrate the topping off of the new chemistry building under construction on 51ÁÔÆæ’s main campus. The new four-story, 163,400-square-foot building will serve as a gateway to the STEM buildings and departments that house those subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It will include […]

51ÁÔÆæ celebrated the opening of the James and Yvonne Ziemer Clinical Simulation Center, a state-of-the-art facility designed to train the next generation of health care professionals, with a grand opening event on Nov. 1. Dozens of students, faculty, staff, campus leaders and community members got a look at the 22,000-square-foot center at the Northwest Quadrant during the invitation-only event. […]

51ÁÔÆæ photographers chronicled life at the university, both on campus and off, in 2019. Here are a few of our favorite images from Pantherfest to State Fair, from research labs to the fountain.