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The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) kicked off construction on its new academic facility at 1025 N. Milwaukee Street on April 23, funded by a donation from MSOE Regent and alumnus Dr. Dwight Diercks and his wife, Dian. A major feature of the $34 million Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall will be a state-of-the-art datacenter, which will be home to a GPU-accelerated supercomputer. Students, faculty and staff, and businesses across industries are invited to collaborate with MSOE to benefit from this tremendous asset to the region. “MSOE changed the course of my life and my career, and...

April 20 marked 19 years since the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, where two heavily armed high school students shоt and kiIIed thirteen people. It has also been just over two months since the mass shооting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In the Greater Milwaukee Area and schools across the country, students stepped away from their desks at 10:00 a.m. and joined the National School Walkout. The action was part of the movement that began after Parkland, when students stood up to call for legislation to end gun violence. More than two...

“This unique opportunity to break bread with Aldermen from other municipalities is both refreshing and enlightening. It allows us to come out of our silos, visit other communities that we might not see often, and also share our experiences as public servants.” – Ashanti Hamilton Local government is a reflection of the people it represents. When a community is hyper-segregated by race, class, political affiliation, and even geography, it is harder to expect leadership can cross the same political barriers that average citizens do not. Southeastern Wisconsin is an example of the modern tug-of-war between ideology: rural vs. urban,...