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Works by masters of modern art including Manet, Degas, Van Gogh, Matisse, and Picasso come to the Milwaukee Art Museum November 4 through January 28. The Milwaukee Art Museum will tell the story of modern art’s development through 150 works by influential artists working in Paris during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures in the exhibition will lead Museum visitors chronologically through this dynamic transformation in the history of art. Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France will be on view from November 4, 2017 to January 28, 2018. Paris became the epicenter of...

The financial gift and educational direction helps positions the university at the educational forefront of next-generation technologies in computational science education. Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) announced a new academic facility to be constructed in the center of campus. The $34 million Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall has been funded by a donation from MSOE Regent and alumnus Dr. Dwight Diercks and his wife, Dian. The gift marks a bold leap forward for the university. With the addition of the Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall, the university will be positioned at the educational forefront in...

ABOUT THE DWIGHT AND DIAN DIERCKS COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE HALL MSOE is building the Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall in the center of its campus near the northwest corner of N. Milwaukee Street and E. State Street in downtown Milwaukee. The building is made possible by a $34 million donation from MSOE Regent and alumnus Dr. Dwight Diercks ’90 and his wife, Dian. The Diercks’ donation is the largest single gift from an alumnus in MSOE’s 114-year history. Dwight Diercks holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering and an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree...

The buildings, including the iconic Old Main, will be returned to their original purpose – the service of veterans. A coalition of community organizations and volunteers announced the launch of a capital campaign to support the restoration and rehabilitation of six historic buildings on the Milwaukee VA Soldiers Home Historic District campus. “The Milwaukee Soldiers Home is one of Milwaukee’s most important historic and architectural assets,” said Mick Hatch, Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP and co-chair of the Save the Soldiers Home campaign. “Together, we can return these historic buildings to their former glory, and serve the veterans...

The project will create and maintain a kind of “seed stock” for breeding kelp with genetic traits best suited for mass production. The U.S. Department of Energy thinks seaweed – and specifically giant kelp – is a contender for feedstock because it is the fastest growing organism on Earth, and does not compete with food crops for land and water. UWM biologist Filipe Alberto recently was awarded $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to create and maintain a kind of “seed stock” for breeding kelp with genetic traits best suited for mass...

Milwaukee Area Technical College and Cardinal Stritch University have signed an agreement that will provide MATC nursing students the opportunity to concurrently enroll at Cardinal Stritch University and earn a bachelor’s degree in as little as one semester after earning an MATC associate degree in registered nursing. The agreement addresses the statewide nursing shortage, which has been described by Wisconsin’s Public Policy Forum as “one of the greatest workforce challenges facing the health care industry” and is projected to increase as experienced nurses retire. The forum’s report calls for a 24 percent increase in the state’s workforce of registered...