Author: Correspondent

Professionals from leading STEM industries and universities in southeastern Wisconsin celebrated at STEM Forward’s 65th Annual Engineers Week Banquet at the Italian Community Center on February 15. Sujeet Chand, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Rockwell Automation, was this year’s keynote speaker. Chand discussed how the company has transformed into a technology firm and intellectual capital business, committed to helping customers become more productive, sustainable and competitive through innovative solutions for industrial automation. STEM Forward named Jeffrey Kautzer of GE Healthcare and UW-Milwaukee (UWM) as 2017 Engineer of the Year, Kenneth Mika of O’Brien & Gere (OBG)...

Residents at the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee’s (HACM) Hillside Terrace will soon benefit from much needed services that local nonprofit SET Ministry helps make accessible. Joseph Galvan, Midwest Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), recently visited the Hillside Family Resource Center to announce an almost $240,000 award to SET Ministry, a HACM community partner. “This funding will facilitate educational and economic opportunities to help residents along their trajectory towards self-sufficiency and success,” said Galvan. The award was part of HUD’s Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency – Service Coordinators Program (ROSS-SC). It...

Professor Emeritus of Film at UW-Milwaukee, Dick Blau, donated 200 cultural photographs to the Milwaukee County Historical Society. The photographs were all captured within sight of his home at 730 N. Plankinton Avenue, just north where it intersects with Wisconsin Avenue. In 2009, Dick Blau and his partner Jane Gallop left Milwaukee’s East Side where they had lived for twenty years and moved downtown, taking up residence just north of the Riverside Theater. The building they moved into was the old Waldheim’s Furniture Store, now named Riverfront Lofts and the first condominium conversion downtown. “It is a spectacular neighborhood,...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s 19th annual drag show breaks out the sequins and spandex, dance moves and feel-good grooves on February 24 at the Miller High Life Theatre. The 2018 UWM Drag Show will feature more than 20 drag performance artists, special guest Jaidynn Diore Fierce of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” two emcees and an intermission performance from a rising singer-songwriter to be announced next week. A family-friendly, all ages pre-show will run in the theater’s rotunda. The 2018 UWM Drag Show will be emceed by celebrated drag performers Lady J (aka Jazz Nance, a UWM alum and current graduate student)...

Volunteers this year will see a new identity for Milwaukee Riverkeeper when they register for the 23rd Annual Milwaukee Riverkeeper Spring Cleanup event held on April 21. The non-profit enlisted the help of the branding and identity experts at Monarch Creative, Inc. to design a new logo coupled with updated messaging, to better communicate the organization’s mission, vision and programming. In the new logo, three rivers are depicted within a bold shield that represents how the Milwaukee Riverkeeper staff and volunteers protect the Milwaukee River Basin which includes the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers. The heroic interpretation was chosen...

The Milwaukee Ballet recently announced their 2018-19 season, and revealed a companion series of inspired murals that feature Michael Pink’s Dracula, The Nutcracker, Genesis 2019, Lambarena, and Bruce Wells’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The 2018-19 season will open in October with Dracula, Milwaukee Ballet Artistic Director Michael Pink’s most famous work. The blockbuster ballet has been presented in companies across the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, accompanied by singers from the Florentine Opera’s Donald and Donna Baumgartner Studio Artist Program, will perform Philip Feeney’s score live. “This season we celebrate innovation, collaboration, and creation,”...