Recent Grant Highlights
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
- $40,000 renewed support for the Bradley Distinguished Lecture Series in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
- $35,000 to support the Digital Design Fabrication Center’s Rapid Prototyping (RP) Lab. The RP Lab gives students, faculty, and professionals access to computer-controlled model-building services including laser cutting and 3D printing.
Northwestern Mutual Foundation
- $72,000 renewed support for eight full-time scholarships in the Northwestern Mutual Scholars Program.
PPD, Inc.
- $26,000 in-kind donation of chromatography equipment for the Milwaukee Institute of Drug Discovery (MIDD). The MIDD was established to advance research and later-stage development of new drugs from research at UWM and collaborating institutions. The MIDD focuses on neuroscience, cancer, and infectious diseases.
Simulex, Inc.
- $1,772,609 in-kind donation of licenses to use the Reference World Information & Simulation Environment (RWISE) software and related services for a five-year period. The software will support research in real time global supply chain management in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business.
Waukesha Foundry
- $25,000 to establish a scholarship program in the College of Engineering & Applied Science for undergraduate engineering students with junior standing or above who have an interest in the foundry industry. The fund will support two-$2,500 scholarships per year, for five years. UWM is one of the few institutions in Wisconsin with a foundry lab.