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Urban Studies Program News

Urban Studies' Temporarily Relocation

In the 2011-12 academic year, occupants of floors 4-8 of Bolton Hall moved to UWM’s newly-acquired Northwest Quadrant (formerly Columbia Hospital). After an HVAC renovation to Bolton Hall, USP will return to our updated quarters. Temporary address: Northwest Quadrant, building B, room 5482, 2025 E. Newport Ave.

Urban Affairs Association

The Urban Affairs Association, the major professional organization of urbanists in the United States, has come to UWM! After being located at the University of Delaware for many years, the UAA relocated to Milwaukee in July 2011. Executive Director Margaret Wilder and two graduate student Project Assistants work in the UAA’s UWM offices, which are temporarily located on the 9th floor of Curtin Hall. They will relocate to be near the USP offices in the future.

Urban Studies and Urban Affairs Association collaboration at UWM

In August 2011, The Urban Affairs Association (UAA) moved its home campus to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), in part because of UWM’s highly regarded Urban Studies Program, which offers undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in urban studies. Read UWM News article

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Program Events

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Please join us at noon on Tuesday, May 7th in Holton 341 for a brownbag discussion to mark the 45th Anniversary of the passage of the Federal Fair Housing Act.

Felita Daniels-Ashley and Kori Schneider-Peragine, of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council, will lead the discussion and address questions including: "How far we have come in our efforts to create integrated communities?" and "What does the MMFHC do and how can you become involved?"

The event is co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council, the UWM Department of History, Urban Studies Programs, and the College of Letters & Science.

For more information, see the event flyer (pdf) or contact Jasmine Alinder, the Urban Studies Programs Director, at jalinder@uwm.edu.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 11am
Please join us for a graduate workshop brown bag on "Giving the Job Talk and Interviewing for the Tenure Track Job", Tuesday April 9, 11AM in NWQ B - 5459.

Friday, February 22, 2013
Please join us for a brown bag colloquium, Friday, Feb. 22 at noon-1pm in the Urban Studies conference room, NWQ 5472. PhD Candidate Michael Ford will be presenting his dissertation research, entitled: "Connecting School Board Governance to School District Academic Outcomes."  See the Event flyer (pdf) for more info.

Friday, February 1, 2013
Please join UWM’s Urban Studies Programs for a reception and panel discussion on urban housing, neighborhood vitality, and the foreclosure crisis in the City Hall Rotunda, 200 E. Wells Street, Milwaukee, Friday, February 1, 2013, from 6:00-8:00 PM. This event accompanies an exhibition of student work from the 2012 Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures summer field school at Thurston Woods, Milwaukee, on display at the City Hall Rotunda from January 22, 2013 - February 5, 2013. See the Event poster (pdf) for more info.
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Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012
Please join UWM's Urban Studies Programs for a 5:30pm reception in the ART Gallery, and a free screening of "As Goes Janesville" and a panel discussion moderated by Brad Lichtenstein, the filmmaker, that follows the film in the Union Theatre. On November 29, Filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein meets UWM students in the Union Theater. See the Event poster (pdf) for more info.
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Monday, October 15, 2012
2-3 pm, Union 181
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
6-7 pm, Union 343
Learn more about Urban Studies Programs!
Join us for an info session about Urban Studies Programs: Ph.D., Master's, Undergraduate Major and Certificate. Get your questions answered about the application process, available funding support, and career opportunities in the field. More Information

Thursday, Sept 20, 2012
Please join UWM's Urban Studies Programs for an Exhibition Opening and Breakfast, "Advancing Human Progress: Mayor Frank P. Zeidler's Vision for Milwaukee," Thursday, 9/20, 8am-9:30am in Milwaukee's City Hall. Free and open to the public.
Event poster (pdf)
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
New Student Orientation
The USP New Student Orientation will be held on Tuesday August 21, 2012 from 1-2:30 in the Urban Studies Conference Room, NWQ-B 5472. The start of the school year reception for new and continuing students and faculty and staff will follow the orientation, from 2:30-3:30.

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