Chancellor finalist calls UWM world-class
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 20, 2004
Samuel Kirkpatrick, president of Eastern Michigan University and a finalist for the chancellor's position at UWM, said the school has a solid foundation and promising future.

Leading the Way
Milwaukee Magazine, WI - March, 2004
Joan Prince, vice chancellor for partnership and innovations, is profiled in the March issue.

From space, a new view of Doomsday
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New York Times - Feb. 17, 2004
UWM's Leonard Parker, professor of physics, is quoted in a story on the physics of the end of the world.

Black students build foundation for statewide organization
The Capital Times, WI - Feb. 23, 2004
This weekend's first statewide conference of black student unions laid a foundation for political solidarity among Wisconsin's African-American college students. UWM was among the participating institutions.

He brings history into children's daily lives
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 18, 2004
Abera Gelan, a professor of economics in UWM‚s Africology Department, "takes five" to talk about a special four-part presentation held at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School as part of Black History month.
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Education comes down to what works
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 21, 2004
Karl Nichols, UWM program coordinator and volunteer at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School, is quoted in this Eugene Kane column about educating African American students, particularly young men.

Bill would further restrict UW campus smoking
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Lacrosse Tribune.com, WI - Feb. 21, 2004
Smoking would be uniformly banned in and near student dormitories in the University of Wisconsin System, including UWM, under a bill set for a vote by the state Assembly on Wednesday. Smoking already is banned in dorms on all but two campuses.

Unfurling Pier Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 21, 2004
Robert Greenstreet, UWM Interim Chancellor and Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, said the new Pier One lakefront education center at Municipal Pier worked well with its neighbors on the lakefront.

Integration edges forward, but poor are left behind
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 21, 2004
Research work radically redefining black/white integration, done by UWM Employment and Training Institute director John Pawasarat and co-author Lois Quinn, is mentioned in this story on the progress of integration in Milwaukee.

Board OKs grant for Pike River project
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 21, 2004
Several UWM biology students joined village residents last summer in planting grasses and other flora indigenous to the area along the Pike River as part of a restoration project.

Planning goes on in Caledonia
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 21, 2004
Students from UWM's School of Architecture and Urban Planning are involved in work on a site plan for Franksville's downtown. Students are talking to residents and businesses about how they would like to see the downtown develop.

Wisconsin No. 1 in birthrate for black teens
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 20, 2004
A recent study by UWM's Employment and Training Institute, which found Milwaukee's black population had the youngest average age among the nation's top 100 metro areas, is mentioned in this article on the high birthrate among Wisconsin's black teens.

A vital part of their lives
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 20, 2004
"The Waukesha Springs neighborhood sounds like a very good new urbanist neighborhood," said UWM's Harvey Rabinowitz, professor of architecture, in this story about a diverse neighborhood near downtown Waukesha.

Prism's plan for UWM's Kenilworth Building denied
Milwaukee Business Journal, WI - Feb. 19, 2004
The Wisconsin Building Commission unanimously voted Feb. 18 to disallow the
bid of Prism Development, Chicago, to redevelop UWM's Kenilworth Building, a former warehouse on Milwaukee's east side that was going to be converted into UWM student housing, retail and academic space.
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Contractor says UWM project bidding process was unfair
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Milwaukee Channel.com, WI - Feb. 19, 2004

Churches hope to make dent in city unemployment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 17, 2004
John Pawasarat, director of UWM‚s Employment & Training Institute, says employers are looking at creative ways to connect with workers from poor central city neighborhoods.

State panel backs bill on Woodlands
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb 17, 2004
The state legislature's Joint Finance Committee approved a measure that would allow non-Milwaukee schoolchildren to continue attending Woodlands School, a private choice school being converted to a UWM charter school.

Appleton alderman proposes sturgeon-rearing facility
Appleton Post Crescent, WI – Feb. 18, 2004
A project involving the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and UWM's WATER Institute --to raise and introduce sturgeon fingerlings into the Winnebago system --is mentioned in this story on efforts to convert an Appleton water plant to a fish farm.

Party feeds on election energy
Appleton Post Crescent, WI – Feb. 18, 2004
Thomas Holbrook, UWM professor of political science, says people in Wisconsin are fairly well disposed toward the Democratic Party because of the national attention to the primary.

What a difference a day makes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 18, 2004
UWM Political Science Professor Kathleen Dolan says there are limits to the number of times John Edwards can say coming in second is a good thing.

Kerry steams to Wisconsin
Columbus Telegraph, NE - Feb. 17, 2004
A story quoting Thomas Holbrook, UWM professor of political science, on John Kerry‚s prospects for victory in the Wisconsin Democratic primary was published in numerous papers nationally.

More at stake than title of mayor
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb 16, 2004
Mayoral candidate Tom Barrett makes an 11th hour appeal to young voters Monday in the hallway outside a dining hall at UWM.

Younger brains exercise study finds that exercise helps keep the mind's abilities sharp
Journal Times Online, WI - Feb. 20, 2004
Rodney A. Swain, associate professor of psychology at UWM, is quoted in a story about University of Illinois research on the impact of exercise in improving mental acuity among older adults. Swain is involved in similar research involving animals.

Quick and Dirty: A notebook of news and politics
Las Vegas Mercury, NV - Feb. 19, 2004
J. David Hoeveler, a UWM professor of history who has written about the history of conservatism, is mentioned in this column citing a New York Times article on declining conservative support for George Bush. An abstract of the original New York Times article of Feb. 10, 2004 is available online, but there is a charge for the complete article.
See: The Right Has Begun Standing A Little Less Behind Bush
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Laying Claim
Milwaukee Magazine - March, 2004
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In this story on the pressure to develop more attractions on Lake Michigan, Nancy Frank, acting dean of UWM's School of Architecture and Urban Planning, says that to date Milwaukee has done a good job in protecting its downtown lakefront.

How the national voucher movement hijacked School District 11
Colorado Springs Independent, CO - February, 2004
Mordecai Lee, UWM associate professor of governmental affairs, says school board members who support vouchers should run openly on the issue in this story on pro-voucher politics in Colorado.

ARTS

UAB hosts talk and art show on fusion of art and science
Kaleidoscope Online, AL - Feb. 18, 2004
Work by Bioartist Hunter O'Reilly, a UWM geneticist, is on display at a University of Alabama-Birmingham exhibit on the fusion of art and science.

Quartet makes Haydn's ' Lark ' sing
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 22, 2004
The Fine Arts Quartet was in peak form Sunday afternoon, playing in the Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts at UWM.

SPORTS

More than meets the eye
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 16, 2004
UWM sports information director Kevin O'Connor is quoted in this story on how teams calculate announced attendance at games.

Page could become first UWM player in NBA
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Feb. 16, 2004
This story looks at the possibility that UWM Panther Dylan Page may go to the NBA.