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Magazine of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Fall 2014
Vol. 16, No. 2
DiscoverIES
in UWM’s natural classrooms
ABOUND

Fall 2014 UWM alumni • 1
1 Panther & Proud
2 Quotable & Notable
4 New @ UWM
6 New Buildings on the Block
8 DISCOVERIES ABOUND IN
UWM’S NATURAL CLASSROOMS
Take a look at some groundbreaking, breathtaking UWM research through Mother Nature’s eyes.
16 YEAR OF THE HUMANITIES
The humanities are at the heart of what it means to be a research university, and UWM declares
that 2014-15 is the year to prove it.
18 Choking a forest’s ability to tame carbon
What happens when rainforest trees fall prey to botanical competition?
20 UWM Honors Distinguished Alumni
25 UWM Arena
26 Panther Athletics
28 Innovation Campus Gifts
32 Class Notes
Fa l l 2 01 4 VOL.16, No. 2
Interim Chancellor: Mark A. Mone
Vice Chancellor for University Relations
and Communications: Tom Luljak (’95)
Vice Chancellor for Development
and Alumni Relations: Patricia Borger
Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations:
Adrienne Bass
Assistant Vice Chancellor of Integrated Marketing
Communications: Laura Porfilio Glawe (’89)
Editor: Angela McManaman (’00, ’08)
Assistant Editor: Alex Vagelatos
Design: Shelly Rosenquist
Photography: UWM Photo Services
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Wild and Wonderful
Many qualities of UWM can be summarized by the words “wild”
and “wonderful.” I’m finding the “wild” can happen at almost any time,
as we have an ever-growing population of wild turkeys on our Kenwood
Campus. At least one has taken a particular liking to relaxing in the
mulch beneath the oak trees surrounding Chapman Hall and can be
seen there most days.
Elsewhere in this issue is information about the wild habitats in
southeastern Wisconsin that UWM helps oversee. Our responsibilities
go well beyond the Downer Woods on campus and extend to
wetlands and forests near Cedarburg and our Innovation Campus
in nearby Wauwatosa.
All of these places are home to the “wonderful,” too. At Innovation
Campus we’re especially excited by the newly opened Innovation
Accelerator Building. You can get a look at move-in day at the
Accelerator Building elsewhere in this issue, plus an updated review
of progress being made at the new School of Freshwater Sciences
addition on Milwaukee’s harbor. A memorable, mid-September
celebration occured at this breakthrough development. I’m certain
future visitors will find many wild and wonderful elements inside of it.
One last “wonderful” I would
like to share is the wonderful
response I’ve received from
alumni during my first few months
as interim chancellor. Because of
my leadership roles in the Lubar
School of Business and especially
its Executive MBA program, I’ve
always been part of an excellent
network of UWM alumni. Now,
thanks to events being hosted
by our Alumni Association, I’m meeting many more alumni from all
UWM schools and colleges. I want to say thank you for all the warm
and positive responses I’ve been receiving from alums who are very
supportive of UWM and its many initiatives. I look forward to meeting
many more of you as the interim year progresses.
Mark A. Mone
Interim Chancellor
Panther Proud
On the cover: The Cedarburg Bog is one of the largest wetlands in southeastern Wisconsin. An important
source of biodiversity, it provides exceptional educational and research opportunities for students.
Cover photography by UWM Photo Services.
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Quotable@notable
PSOA film alumna thrives on hairy deadlines
Tim Burton changed Brooke Duckart’s
life. “When I saw ‘The Nightmare
Before Christmas,’ I knew right away what
I wanted to do with the rest of my life.”
After working in graphic design on the
American Girl website and with Milwaukee-
based advertising firm Hoffman York
she decided to return to school to study
animation. “Something was missing.
I wanted to bring my work to life. I visited
the film department at UWM’s Peck School
of the Arts and saw that, even though
they didn’t offer a degree in animation, the
teachers were so flexible and supportive
I knew I could create the degree I wanted
and cultivate the education I desired.”
Less than six months after completing her
UWM BFA in Film, Video, Animation, and
New Genres, she received a call from Laika
in Hillsboro, Ore., the studio behind feature
films “Coraline” and “ParaNorman.”
“Laika was my goal. It was my dream.
I didn’t think it would happen for at least six
years. They had seen a project I did at UWM
and called me. My head is still spinning.”
Brooke’s official title is Hair and Fur
Fabricator. “I spend my days making hairdos
on puppets and I couldn’t be happier.”
She says she doesn’t have a favorite
animal to work on. “They all bring their
own challenges. When working with hair
or fur in stop motion the biggest problem
is ghosting or seeing the imprint of the
animator’s fingers on the hair. The trick is
to find the balance between looking natural
and being rigid enough to hold its shape
when being moved.”
Right now she is working on a new film
but is not allowed to divulge any specifics.
After that? “I am craving feathers. That
would be a lot of fun. I’m just not sure if that
falls into the Hair and Fur Department.”
Inspired by MKE, millennials, SARUP
alum debuts furniture collection
By day, Ryan Tretow (’12 BS Architectural
Studies) has what most recent
architecture graduates would consider a
dream job. He’s a full-time designer working
on hospitality, restaurant and mixed-use
office spaces for the Milwaukee-based firm
Kahler Slater.
By night and on weekends, however,
he transforms into a furniture designer.
“It began innocently enough,” he says.
“Some friends expressed a need for a coffee
table and desk lamp. I thought I could help.
It’s basically a hobby gone awry.”
Tretow’s “hobby” has just produced a
six-piece modern furniture collection aimed
at young urbanites.
“I want to design
furniture for the
new millennials,
young urbanites
that have to deal
with small spaces
and tight budgets.”
Each of the
six pieces in the
collection not only
responds to this scale but is also designed
to multi-task. There’s a bench that doubles
as a coffee table, a lamp that can be wall
mounted or moved wherever it’s needed
and a mirror that doubles as a coat hook
or art display.
The collection is made entirely in
Milwaukee. Tretow says the city’s
manufacturing heritage was crucial to its
success. “Craftsmen here understand the
industrial process, working within a budget
and how things come together. That makes
for a very fluid relationship between the
designer and the constructor.”
For Tretow, moving from architecture
to furniture design
is not difficult. “My
degree from UWM was
very multi-faceted. I didn’t work
specifically with furniture but
the design instruction I
received was very holistic.
I can make a very literal
translation from what I
learned in class to the
design of the pieces.”
Tretow’s dream is to
combine his daytime job,
his nighttime passion
and add in his love for
photography. “I want to mix
them all together into a single
business. I may have to start
my own company to do so.”
Tretow’s work can be seen
at ryantretow.com.
‘Marshall plan’ takes couple from UWM Hall
of Fame to Big Apple
She was a track and field star from
Cudahy. He was a soccer player from
the city of Milwaukee. They both ended
up at UWM on athletic scholarships. Soon
afterwards, Anne (’97 BS Education)
and David Marshall (’98 BFA) met one
afternoon in the athlete study room. “All
student athletes were required to go eight
or 10 hours a week. Little did I know that
is where I’d meet my wife,” says David.
Both Anne and David had great college
careers. She set school records in the
shot put and discus, and was inducted
into the UWM Hall of Fame in 2006. David
followed a successful school career with
a four-year stint playing for the Milwaukee
Rampage. “I made all of $2,200 a month,”
David recalls. He too was inducted into the
Hall of Fame in 2012. “Yes we are both
in, and I never let him forget that I got in
first,” Anne laughs.
Since graduating, the two have
crisscrossed the country following one
another’s careers. The Marshall plan has
taken them to Maryland where Anne
worked on her doctorate, and New York
where David held senior positions with ESPN
and USA Today. In between they spent a few
years back in Chicago before finally settling
once again in Brooklyn.
Today David works on the ING account for
the iCrossing advertising agency and Anne
is an assistant professor of Mathematics
Education at Lehman College-City University
of New York (CUNY).
Outside of work their lives are filled
with family and community service. They
have a 12-year-old daughter, Natalija. “She’s
6’2” and soon to become a basketball star,”
says David.
The UWM couple is leaving their mark
on the Big Apple in a number of ways. Anne
teaches Sunday school and is a board member
of Extraordinary Birthdays, an organization that
helps provide birthday parties for children of
homeless families. They are both involved
in Love146 a nonprofit international human
rights organization that works toward the
abolition of child trafficking and exploitation.
The Marshalls are also working with
Adrienne Bass, associate vice chancellor
for Alumni Relations, to start a New York
chapter. “There are a lot of UWM alumni
in the New York area. It’s in the very
early stages but the response has
been great,” says David.
The group already has one event
planned. They will be getting together
at a local bar to watch a Packer game
this fall. “I’m really excited about
getting the alumni chapter moving,” says
Anne. “UWM prepared me perfectly for my
professional career. The athletics allowed me
to travel and meet a lot of people. Plus I met
my husband there. I owe a lot to UWM.”
Ryan Tretow
David and Anne Marshall
Brooke Duckart
Alumni power couple David and Anne Marshall with their daughter Natalija.

Ateam of astronomers – including David Kaplan, UWM
assistant professor of physics – identified possibly the
coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient
stellar remnant is so cool that its carbon has crystallized,
forming – in effect – an Earth-sized diamond in space.
“It’s a really remarkable object,” said Kaplan. “We expect
a large number of old white dwarfs to be around. They are just
hard to see, and if we don’t know where to look, they
are basically impossible to pick out.”
White dwarfs are the extremely dense end-states of stars
like our sun that have collapsed to form an object about the
size of the Earth. Composed mostly of carbon and oxygen,
they cool and fade over billions of years.
Kaplan and his colleagues found this 11-billion-year-old gem
using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO)
Green Bank Telescope (GBT).
But the telescopes didn’t actually allow scientists to see the
white dwarf. Instead, they were studying a millisecond pulsar,
found two years ago by Jason Boyles, now a visiting assistant
professor at Western Kentucky University, using the GBT.
The next step, he said, is to actually detect the white dwarf
in order to model conditions that will make it easier to find and
study white dwarfs and other such cold objects in space.
In June, UWM Libraries opened historic Polish Milwaukee to
the world.
“Milwaukee Polonia,” a digital collection of nearly 32,000 historic
photographs of the city’s Polish-American community, is online at
www.uwm.edu/mkepolonia. The collection was also be the
subject of a large-screen exhibition in the cultural activities tent at
Milwaukee’s Polish Fest.
“This collection is the largest we know of documenting the
Polish-American community,” said Michael Doylen, assistant director
and head of archives at the UWM Libraries. The collection features
the photography of Roman B. J. Kwasniewski, who lived and worked
in Milwaukee’s South Side Polish community, Polonia, from
1910 through the 1940s. Photographs of this time period,
Doylen said, capture Polonia at its most cohesive.
“Milwaukee has one of the oldest and largest Polish communities
in America,” said Doylen. Close-knit families lived in predominately
Polish neighborhoods, attended Catholic churches and schools
in the area, and spoke Polish at home and out in the community.
The collection was donated to UWM in 1979 and opened for
research in 1991, but this was the first time scholars and the public
were able to view it from anywhere in the world.
Shine on you crazy diamond
Milwaukee’s Polish heritage – now online
Imagine a football team from the state’s smallest high school
winning the Super Bowl. That’s the metaphor Mark Zoromski
used to describe an unprecedented achievement by a group of
UWM journalism students.
Eighteen students won what is considered
the top professional award for investigative
broadcast journalism, the Edward R. Murrow
Award, sharing the limelight with large network
TV stations in Boston and Washington, D.C.
The series also won a regional category
of the award.
“I’ve been fortunate enough to work with some top journalists
and 99 percent of them have never won a regional Murrow award,
let alone a national one,” said Zoromski, a senior lecturer in
Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies Department (JAMS).
“These students have won before they even left the classroom.
It’s just astonishing.”
Given by the Radio Television Digital News Association, the
Murrow awards are named after Edward R. Murrow, who produced
TV news reports leading to the censure of Wisconsin Sen. Joseph
McCarthy in 1954.
The students produced a series of investigative broadcast reports
on the event of an active shooter on campus. “School Shooter
Safety: An Act of Malpractice,” aired last year on PantherVision,
a weekly broadcast produced by students in JAMS.
“It feels surreal,” said Chris Verhyen, who was one of the original
reporters covering the story. “Especially the national award, where
we went up against large network TV stations.”
Like winning a Super Bowl, probably better
Birds, bees and chemical-free lawns
Birds and bees – as well as UWM students, faculty, staff and
neighbors – will benefit from a new natural lawn care program
across all 23 acres of lawn on campus.
“Our traditional lawn care program was safe, but completely
reactive and chemical dependent,” said UWM Sustainability Chief
Kate Nelson. “As a leading green campus nationally, we decided we
could do better. Working through the shared governance process, we
considered storm water run off issues, and the impacts of long-term
chemical use on urban wildlife and human health. Chemical-free
lawn care became an obvious solution.”
A natural seasonal process of aerating, composting and two to
three monthly mowings is replacing the university’s traditional lawn-
care program.
Natural lawn care at UWM will involve two to three aerations yearly
to oxygenate soil densely compacted by years of pedestrian traffic.
Soil health will get an additional boost with yearly application of a 1/8-
inch cover of compost. Over seeding of grass will create a hardier turf
environment that crowds out weeds naturally. A deeper emerald hue
is one possible aesthetic bonus, but the natural lawn care might also
result in more dandelions and clover cover.
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In spring 2014, a natural seasonal process of aerating,
composting and two to three monthly mowings replaced
the University’s traditional lawn-care program.
“Bees love clover and hate pesticides,” said Nelson.
“So we’re hoping to bring even more ‘black and gold back’
to campus with natural lawn care.”
A decade in the making, but it covers a lot of ground
The Encyclopedia
of Milwaukee is
an ambitious 10-year
effort to put together
a comprehensive,
carefully authenticated resource with information
on everything Milwaukee.
Lead editors for the project are Amanda Seligman, associate
professor of history, and Margo Anderson, distinguished
professor of history. Working in collaboration with senior
editors Thomas Jablonsky and James Marten from Marquette,
IT professionals and a team of students, they’re creating a printed
and online version of the Encyclopedia.
The print version will include 740 entries spread across 1,000 pages
and more than a million words. A preliminary website is online at
emke.uwm.edu, and a comprehensive print bibliography is
scheduled this spring from Marquette University Press. Northern
Illinois University Press is under contract for the print version.
Begun in 2008, The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee is projected to
be completed in 2017. Total cost is estimated at $2 million, of which
$1.3 million has already been raised through contributions and grants
from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Greater
Milwaukee Foundation.
“The Encyclopedia differs from conventional histories, which tell
the story of the city in a linear narrative from start to finish,” said
Seligman. With the Encyclopedia, researchers, journalists, students
and anyone interested will be able to dip into the content at any point
to learn more about a topic they’re interested in – whether it’s labor
relations, Gertie the Duck or Hank Aaron.
UWM student first Wisconsin Tillman Scholar
The Pat Tillman
Foundation earlier
this year named the
University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee as a first-time
University Partner.
The Tillman Military
Scholarship is designed
for eligible active-duty
service members, veterans
and military spouses.
In 2013, Rae Anne Frey, a UWM PhD student in Educational
Psychology, applied at-large for the scholarship’s 5th class. When
selected, she became the first Tillman Military Scholar to attend
school in Wisconsin.
The selection process is highly competitive, with Frey among
60 Tillman Military Scholars chosen from a field of more than 5,000
applicants for the 2013-14 academic year. A native of Cadott, Wis.,
she served as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army.
Frey met with groups of eligible students at the UWM Military
and Veterans Resource Center to encourage them to apply for
the scholarship. “It’s very competitive, but definitely worth
giving it a shot,” she said.
new@UWM

A 100,000-square-foot addition to the School
of Freshwater Sciences (SFS) on Milwaukee’s
inner harbor, just south of downtown, integrates
science, engineering, urban planning, policy and public
health. Unique in the United States, SFS, formed in
2009, builds on UWM’s more than 40-year history
of maintaining the largest academic research institute
on the Great Lakes.
The school’s expanded home offers a rare combination
of capabilities – from microbiology to robotics, and
aquaculture to policy-making support – all under one roof.
The new building features bio-secure and quarantine
facilities for studying wildlife; a pathogen-testing facility;
and the Great Lakes Genomics Center, which can reveal
information about lake and river contamination much
quicker and with greater accuracy than current methods.
Farther west, in Wauwatosa, is UWM’s
Innovation Campus, a 72-acre, next-generation
technical park, at which UWM bioengineers are
working in close proximity to scientists and doctors
at the regional medical complex.
The aim of the park’s first 24,000-square-foot
building, the Innovation Accelerator, is to conduct
joint research with medical professionals to build
products that solve health care problems – and
bring those discoveries to the marketplace. It also
houses a Mobile App Development Lab, in which
UWM students work on health applications with
medical professionals.
Area philanthropists have given more than
$6 million to the development that will eventually
include housing, a hotel, another building for
collaborative research and more private industry.
Donors include the Nicholas Family Foundation,
Wisconsin Energy Foundation, Michael J. Cudahy,
the Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation,
Dennis Klein and KBS Construction, and an
anonymous donor.
Here is a look at UWM’s latest, exciting
expansion projects.
Members of the Center for Water
Policy provide science-based
support to policy makers charged
with managing freshwater resources.
Pictured in their new home are
doctoral student Will Kort, left, assistant
professor Ramiro Berardo, Center for
Water Policy Director and Associate
Professor Jenny Kehl, graduate student
Victoria Lubner and research manager
Aaron Thiel.
The Accelerator Building at Innovation Campus
includes a rapid prototyping facility in which
proof of concept, fabrication and pilot
manufacturing work takes place.
David Garman, left, dean of the School of
Freshwater Sciences, and Michael Carvan,
associate professor, display zebra fish used in
an experiment. The school has one of the top
zebra fish research clusters in the nation for
its toxicology studies.
Brooke Slavens, assistant
professor of Health
Sciences, and a graduate
student help set up the
new lab for rehabilitation
engineering and orthopedic
biomechanics. The lab
features a floor that tilts,
allowing the lab members
to photograph and document
movement of the impaired.
UWM Mechanical Engineering Professor Junhong Chen
and Milwaukee gastroenterologist Lyndon Hernandez are
partners in an effort to commercialize a biosensor they
are developing that can help diagnose acid reflux disease
noninvasively.
Rebecca Klaper, director of the Great Lakes Genomics Center in
the new addition at the School of Freshwater Sciences, where
the most advanced molecular tools in North America are used
to solve ecological questions.
In the ergonomics lab led by Na Jin Seo, assistant
professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineer-
ing, graduate students take equipment training. Lab
projects focus on grip and hand movement, including
a prototype bracelet that improves the movement of
fingers in stroke patients who have numbness and
diminished function in their hands.
With a gentle wave shape to its façade, the modern
addition to the School of Freshwater Sciences con-
tains state-of-the-art equipment necessary for training
water experts and leaders to manage sustainable and
equitable use of freshwater systems worldwide.
The first building in UWM’s Innovation
Campus in Wauwatosa overlooks the
Medical College of Wisconsin, Blood-
Center of Wisconsin, and both Froedtert
and Children’s hospitals. It will act as
a catalyst for academic, clinical and
business organizations to develop new
products and technologies.
UWM is celebrating the completion of two buildings that offer faculty and
students the most up-to-date tools and facilities, while also fostering more
research collaboration between UWM scientists and those at other agencies.
New Facilities
– Both local and globalEXPAND UWM’s Reach

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“When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”
- John Muir
Throughout southeastern Wisconsin, 400-plus acres
of natural spaces are under the careful protection and
management of UWM’s Field Station, celebrating its
50th anniversary in 2014. These natural preserves include
bogs, forests and a stopover for monarch butterflies on
their journey south. These natural communities rely on
UWM to be a strong steward of the environment and a
leader in environmental sustainability.
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Below: A gentle force of nature in his own right, James Reinartz, field
station director and biological sciences professor, surveys the old-growth
beech maple forest near the UWM Field Station.

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cedarburg BOG
“These resources make it
possible for a single researcher
or student to consider asking
a wide variety of questions,
but they also bring together a
larger community of researchers
working in very different
systems. Experiencing this
diversity was particularly
valuable for me as a graduate
student at UWM.”
- Steve Hovick
Senior Research Associate
Department of Evolution,
Ecology and Organismal Biology
Ohio State University
The morning stillness has enveloped the Cedarburg Bog, just
as it has for thousands of years. The quiet is gently broken as
graduate student Amberleigh Henschen whistles for the common
yellowthroat birds she is researching. When one quickly returns her
call, she smiles the way a mother smiles at hearing her children’s
laughter — excited, happy, energized. Like her fellow researchers
and others who hike the narrow boardwalks through UWM’s
acreage of this diverse wetland, she is drawn by curiosity and
a desire to learn in nature’s classroom.
Just 30 miles north of campus, the Cedarburg Bog spans
2,200 acres and is owned primarily by the Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources and UWM. It was designated a National
Natural Landmark by the National Park Service in 1973, and as an
Experimental Ecological Reserve, is part of the National EER
network. Anchored by the UWM Field Station, this outdoor
laboratory frequently hosts students from UWM’s numerous
scientific disciplines who explore its forests, swamps,
meadows, marshes and lakes.
Local residents are correct when they humorously
refer to the area as the “Saukville Swamp.” With its
neutral pH, this wetland is technically a swamp; bogs
have a more acidic pH. Its name is also somewhat of a
misnomer as geographically it is in Saukville.
James Reinartz, a senior scientist at the University,
presides over the area as the director of the Field
Station, but his connection to the environment is deeper
and noticeably profound. A fatherly ambassador and curator,
he speaks with the calm, measured cadence of a man who
has learned patience waiting for nature to do things in its
own time.
“The Cedarburg Bog is an exceptional asset and an
important source of biodiversity,” Reinartz says. “Even
though UWM is an urban campus, many students are
interested in careers in environmental conservation.
Researchers, students and visitors log more
than 10,000 hours annually in these natural
treasures, exploring, studying and simply
enjoying a peaceful moment. In contrast
to UWM’s metropolitan East Side campus,
these natural gems provide a balance to the
urban stresses that affect people and the
environment — and a place for students
to research questions that may one day
help solve some of the bigger scientific
puzzles of our time. For as naturalist
John Muir understood, all things in
nature are connected.
Look through our camera lens into this
world, with its pristine, natural wonders and
areas singled out for careful restoration and
preservation. These pages offer a glimpse of
its unique and timeless beauty and relevance.
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Access to UWM’s land is through the Field Station on Blue Goose Road.
Main: In his role as director of the UWM Field Station,
James Reinartz marvels at nature’s fragileness and resiliency.
Above: A pale purple coneflower blooms near the UWM Field Station.
Right: The Cedarburg Bog is a National Natural Landmark.
Above: Common yellowthroat males have distinctive black facial masks.
Right: Amberleigh Henschen prepares a mist net for her early-morning
bird research.

DOWNER WOODS
These areas provide a balance, a hands-
on opportunity, and a way to broaden
their education.”
For students like Henschen,
the bog has been a place of
boundless discovery.
“The Cedarburg Bog
and UWM Field Station
have provided me with an
area to conduct almost all
my field research while
staying close to home,”
Henschen says. She is
examining why female
common yellowthroats seem
to prefer to mate with males
with larger black, Zorro-type
facial masks, which she hypothesizes
may indicate a better immune system and
healthier male.
“I hope to unravel what benefits females
gain by being choosy about their mate,”
she explains.
Home to carnivorous plants, a beech
tree forest, about 35 plants at the southern-
most reach of their growing range, and an
ecosystem that thrives just beneath the
water’s surface, the area’s importance,
will only increase as climate change,
habitat fragmentation, and invasion by
exotic species continue to influence
natural areas around Wisconsin and
the world. Carved into a quiet, rural
expanse in southeastern Wisconsin,
these unique wetlands play a vital
role in preserving water quality
and species diversity, and serve
to enhance understanding
of our environment.
The sound of gravel crunching underfoot precedes Reinartz as
he emerges from Downer Woods to welcome visitors. Reinartz
surmises from the open branches on the mature trees that the site may
have been a Native American gathering spot at one time. Around the turn
of the 20th century, the land was owned and farmed by Guido Pfister, who
eventually donated it to Downer College, on the site that became UWM in
1964. Since UWM’s Field Station began managing and restoring the 11-acre
conservancy on the northern rim of UWM’s 104-acre main campus in 1998,
Reinartz says it’s much easier to walk its meandering pathways.
“When we were first assigned to care for the woods, it was a dense thicket
of invasive buckthorn,” Reinartz explains. “Then garlic mustard took over.
We worked very hard to eliminate those aggressive invaders and let the natural
area recover.”
Downer Woods now provides an easily accessible venue that is woven into
the curriculum of UWM’s growing biosciences and conservation programs. It
provides opportunities for scientific research, like one project underway to
study when specific trees leaf out each spring, and is also a haven for
casual visitors who venture in to enjoy the changing seasons.
“A lot of native species, like jack in the pulpit and enchanters
nightshade, are returning,” Reinartz says. “They’ve responded
wonderfully. Our ultimate goal is to get the property back to being
a beech maple forest.”
While much progress has been made, the conservancy is not
“out of the woods.” The emerald ash borer is a looming threat,
and with almost half of the canopy comprised of ash trees, the
insect invader’s impact could be significant. But this unique, urban
natural area has weathered nature’s storms before.
“Having been all around the globe over the
past four decades, the UWM Field Station
still blooms with pleasant memories from my
experiences. Access to the land helped direct
my graduate focus. Utilization of a safe,
secure and bio diverse area was a novel and
critical opportunity, across all seasons, to
anchor me with the complexity and fragility
of such ecosystems, all available with the
benefit of world-class scientists as a guide.
Many scientists, myself included, would
not be where they are today without the
environmental focus and conservation ethic
that UWM espoused then and now.”
- Charles E. Rupprecht, VMD, MS, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
Director, Centre for Conservation Medicine Ecosystem
Health Professor, Epidemiology Public Health
Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine,
St. Kitts, West Indies
Cedarburg Bog continued
Center Photo: In Downer Woods, newly planted sugar maple trees are
surrounded by chicken wire to protect them from deer and rabbits.
Above Left: Narrow boardwalks provide access to wet areas of the
Cedarburg Bog.
Below Left: Jack Graham is researching whether bog peat is
storing or releasing greenhouse gases.
Above Right: Through diligent restoration, Downer Woods is once
again home to native plants.
DOWNER WOODS

UWM MONARCH
CONSERVANCY
“I conducted research on distribution patterns and survivorship of
monarch butterflies at the UWM Field Station. The biologically diverse
and significant property provided an incredibly stimulating learning
environment, further enhanced by the lab facilities, encouragement and
opportunities for engagement with Field Station staff and other students.
My career at the Milwaukee Public Museum is directly related to the
research I pursued at the Field Station”
- Susan (Sullivan) Borkin
Head of Natural Sciences Curator,
Invertebrate Zoology
Milwaukee Public Museum
This Page, Main Photo: Cedarburg Bog contains the southern-most
string bog in North America.
Small Circle: Black-eyed Susans are among abundant wildflowers
in the Cedarburg Bog area.
Big Circle: UWM’s Field Station, used extensively for teaching and
research, is the base camp for all the University’s natural spaces.
UWM MONARCH
CONSERVANCY
Like the monarch butterflies that rest en masse on the area’s
huge sycamore during their southern migration, the UWM
Monarch Conservancy at Innovation Campus is undergoing a
metamorphosis. While still in its infancy, plans are to turn 11 acres
of the former Milwaukee County grounds in Wauwatosa into lush
prairie — a peaceful, natural refuge for these graceful creatures
and other desirable plants and wildlife.
Dave Gilbert, Innovation Campus executive director, says
collaboration has been key as UWM works with a local group of
naturists, Friends of the Monarch Trail, to revamp the site. “The
discussion between UWM and the citizen group is making the
entire campus development even more ecofriendly,” Gilbert says.
“The early phase of the project has been to get the invasive
species under control,” says James Reinartz, UWM Field Station
director and the University’s conservation consultant at Innovation
Park. “Last year, we planted the first prairie, which is just now
establishing itself.”
“It’s a work in progress, aimed at protecting these fragile butterflies,”
says Barb Agnew, founder of Friends of the Monarch Trail. While she
says the monarchs have become the symbolic reason for restoring and
protecting the land, she and Reinartz emphasize that improvements will
ultimately benefit all resident wildlife and plant communities, and purposefully
restore a much-needed natural space.
“There are people who really valued the open aspect of the former Milwaukee
County grounds,” Reinartz explains. “It was viewed as essentially park land and was
valuable for people to walk their dogs and provide a resting place for the monarchs. The
concerns of these residents set the target for what UWM is doing here. We are committed
to making this a beautiful natural area — better than it was before.”
This Page, Top Circle: Monarchs fuel up on nectar from butterfly milkweed
at the UWM Monarch Conservancy.
Bottom Circle: A lower limb of the sycamore tree still brings in a tiny
grouping of monarchs (photo taken before development began on the
County Grounds.)
Map Inset: The Monarch Conservancy at UWM’s Innovation Campus in
Wauwatosa, Wis.
Bottom Photo: UWM is collaborating with local citizens to protect this
unique habitat for monarch butterflies.
Watch a day in the life of the UWM Field Station
unfold before your eyes in the latest UWM
Spotlight on Excellence video, now playing at
vimeo.com/uwmilwaukee/wildatuwm

Welcome to the Year of the Humanities at
UWM – an opportunity for scholars and students
to have a productive discussion about the role
of the humanities in college education.
“There was a certain amount of serendipity in the choice
of this year,” says Nigel Rothfels, director of the Office of
Undergraduate Research and chair of the organizing committee
for the Year of the Humanities. “It’s timely because our campus
discussion is part of a larger national discussion of the roles
traditionally played by the humanities.
“There has been a great deal of focus on STEM [science,
technology, engineering and mathematics] areas in recent
years. People are thinking now about what other fields are doing,
looking at the status of the humanities and clarifying their role.”
UWM’s core humanities departments include art history,
English, communication, languages, comparative literature,
women’s studies and philosophy. In addition, faculty in related
areas such as history, political science, geography, linguistics
and journalism, advertising and media studies also consider their
fields related to the humanities.
“Humanities are strong on our campus,” says Rothfels,
noting several nationally ranked departments. “We haven’t seen
a drop in the number of students taking humanities courses.”
Furthermore, research shows that while graduates in the
STEM fields and career-oriented majors often make more money
right after college, the pay gap narrows over time. Studies
in Britain and the United States have shown that leadership
in organizations often falls to people with core training in the
humanities. Nearly two-thirds of members of the British
Parliament and CEOs of Fortune 500
companies, for example, have degrees
in humanities, arts and letters.
(See infographic on page 17.)
“We’ll have much to show during
the Year of the Humanities about what
these fields have to offer to students and to our
society at large,” says Rothfels. Critical thinking about issues, the
ability to work effectively with others and communication skills are
among the valuable results of humanities studies. “There are jobs
out there… and good jobs.”
And, just as important in today’s increasingly
interconnected world is the knowledge that humanities
fields offer. “Our students are recognizing that it’s
important to know more about other countries if we
expect to have positive bilateral relations with them,”
says Rothfels. “We cannot expect to understand other
countries without a sense of their language, history
and culture.”
Languages, in particular, are growing in popularity,
with much of the growth in Spanish, Middle Eastern and
Asian languages. In these areas and other humanities
disciplines, the university works closely with employers
and surveys parents and students to make certain the
courses being offered are responsive to their needs,
according to Rothfels.
The Year of the Humanities at UWM will highlight
the value of the humanities, with 20 to 30 events each
semester. Some will be new events and others will be
ongoing, including the Distinguished Lecture Series and
film series sponsored by language departments. The
University’s 21st Century Studies, International Education,
and Jewish Studies centers, in addition to the humanities
departments, will all be involved.
“We’re taking this opportunity to highlight work that too
often goes on under the radar,” says Rothfels. “We want
to make this an opportunity for the campus and broader
community to learn more about the humanities and join
the discussion about the importance of these disciplines.”
See uwm.edu/humanities for more information on
presentations, conferences and events.
Anukware Selase Adzima
’06 MA Foreign Languages and Linguistics
Alumnus Anukware Selase Adzima is
general manager of CETRA Ghana Ltd., a
U.S.-owned company that specializes in
translation and interpretation. Adzima studied
both French and Spanish translation at UWM.
His specialty, however, is African indigenous languages.
His company also offers cultural consulting. “For example, if a
company wants to sell something to people in the Middle East, they
can’t put a bikini on their web page. In China, the color of happiness
is red, but in my country, Ghana, it’s the color for funerals.”
“The humanities are what helps every field of study make sense
of other cultures, other parts of the world, other histories.” The
humanities, he adds, help us connect with other cultures and share
the ideas that will become future innovations.
Translation technology and the business and marketing aspects
of owning a translation business blended seamlessly with his UWM
translation curriculum, a liberal arts combination Adzima
says benefited him greatly.
“I didn’t just learn how to translate words at UWM, but I learned
how to manage myself as a business.”
Bertha Alvarez Manninen
’01 MA Philosophy
Alumna Bertha Alvarez Manninen is the
first in her family to attend college. While
her family was very supportive of her studies,
she understands why some well-meaning
parents encourage their children to pursue
so-called “practical” fields over the humanities.
She resisted the advice and enrolled in UWM’s graduate program
in philosophy.
“I absolutely adored my two years here. The classes were small,
the teachers were really dedicated, the students were close knit.”
Manninen is now an associate professor in the College of
Humanities at Arizona State University. She teaches courses like
medical ethics and philosophy of religion.
Her humanities degrees have done more than just set her career
in motion, she says.
“I really, genuinely believe that I am a wholly better human being
because of my studies. I’m a better a parent, I’m a better wife, I’m a
better friend, I’m a better citizen, I’m a better voter… I really think I’m
all that because of the skills that philosophy gave me.”
Jennifer Flamboe
’07 MA Language, Literature
and Translation
Alumna Jennifer Flamboe spent her
undergraduate years searching for the right
major. She studied premed, planning to be a
physical therapist. She switched to journalism,
but that wasn’t right either. She kept up with Spanish courses
throughout. “To me they were the fun classes.”
After a semester in Ecuador, Flamboe worked part-time in a
clinic in Wisconsin. Asked to translate for Spanish-speaking patients,
something clicked. “It was the perfect blend for me.” That’s when
she decided to pursue her master’s at UWM.
“My path to success has been more indirect than anything,” says
Flamboe. “When people pursue a humanities degree, sometimes the
path is a little less direct. Most people who major in the humanities
do it because they love it. They don’t always know where they’ll end
up specifically.”
Specially, she ended up at Alverno College, where she is now
chair of the world languages department and an assistant professor
of Spanish.
Kyoko MorI
‘84 Ph.D. English/Creative Writing
Alumna Kyoko Mori could have pursued
many other more “practical” areas of study,
such as law. “But I would have been so
unhappy,” she now says as a professor of
creative writing at George Mason University.
“At UWM, I learned to take other people’s writing seriously. To
take someone else’s piece of writing and to try to be open-minded
and make constructive suggestions.
Mori thinks of literature as a particularly important area of study
for students because it helps develop empathy. “Literature allows
readers to imagine something other than what they live every day…
to imagine, to think, to see the similarities and differences between
things. Studying literature is both imaginative and systematic. I really
did learn how to think logically.”
Her time at UWM, she says, “helped me most in committing
to my writing. I really wanted to be a writer, and this taught me
that I should just go ahead and pursue this in whatever way I could.
And it did help me get a job teaching, which made it financially
possible for me to write.”
matter more than
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UWM biologist Stefan Schnitzer and student researchers in the
Panama jungle have found that tree vines – or lianas – are threatening
the ability of tropical forests to combat climate change (photo provided
by Stefan Schnitzer).
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UWM researcher shows how plant competition could impact climate change
a Forest’s Ability to
Choking
Sergio Estrada is a doctoral student
working with biologist Stefan Schnitzer
(pictured on page 19) who has found that
tree vines – or lianas – are threatening
the ability of tropical forests to combat
climate change.
Stefan Schnitzer of the School of Freshwater Sciences is getting a grip on the relationship between carbon
loss and botanical competition in Panama.
The dense forests of Panama are representative
of many of the Earth’s tropical forests. Here,
UWM biologist Stefan Schnitzer and his team
of student researchers are using machetes as
well as sophisticated data-collection equipment
to prove that a botanical competitor in the forest is
threatening the trees.
The loss of trees weakens Earth’s best defense in the battle against rising levels
of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) – a greenhouse gas that contributes to
climate change. All trees soak up CO2 during photosynthesis, but tropical forests
alone store around one-third of the terrestrial carbon on Earth.
The competitors are woody vines,
or lianas, and Schnitzer has found that
they are increasing in tropical forests
throughout Central and South America,
choking out mature trees that store the
most carbon.
Lianas are structural parasites, using
trees to support their
thin stems as they climb to the forest
canopy. There they blot out sunlight
required for tree growth and, because
they are more drought resistant than
many tree species, lianas continue to
grow during the dry season, when trees
fall dormant.
Although lianas also take up carbon
during photosynthesis, he says, they
account for only a mere fraction of the amount of carbon
that trees accumulate.
“When plants compete in a tropical forest, people think it’s
a zero-sum game – the one that prevails takes up the same
amount of carbon that the one that was displaced did,” says
Schnitzer, professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences.
“But this assumption is now being challenged.”
Getting a foothold
In the first experimental study to demonstrate that com-
petition between plants can result in losses of forest carbon,
Schnitzer has quantified the outcome of runaway liana growth.
The verdict: Lianas can reduce forest-wide biomass accumula-
tion (which is mostly trees) by nearly 20 percent.
“Lianas grow quickly in gaps created by fallen trees, a pro-
cess that tells the carbon-imbalance story best,” says Schnitzer.
To determine how much damage was being done, he
conducted an eight-year liana-removal experiment.
In research supported by the National Science Foundation
(NSF), he and his team, armed with machetes, chopped out
lianas in some plots in the Panamanian forest
and recorded the rate of liana fill-in.
By comparing data from liana-free
plots with naturally liana-filled plots in
the same forest, they quantified the
extent to which lianas limited tree
growth: Liana fill-in reduced tree
biomass accumulation by nearly 200
percent in the cleared gaps.
Data collection has been daunting.
Across a 125-acre plot, the research-
ers have tracked over 67,000 lianas.
No matter what species of liana, the
researchers found that most of the
trees in plots where treefall occurred
were negatively affected by the vines.
What is driving this proliferation of lianas?
Schnitzer says it still isn’t clear. His lab has an NSF grant
pending to investigate this question.
The outlook isn’t completely bleak, however.
Despite the lianas’ hardiness, Schnitzer doesn’t believe the
encroachment of lianas will ultimately smother whole forests.
“It’s still beneficial to be a tree,” he says. “Once they gain a
canopy position, they could be there for 500 years, putting out
lots and lots of seeds year after year. Also, vines have a higher
mortality rates than trees.”
About 1 percent of the tropical forest turns over annually.
When trees fall, they rip some of the lianas away from the
canopy. If the remaining trees are big enough, they stay
vine-free for a long time, says Schnitzer, because it’s more
difficult for the lianas to make their way back up when a
tree is exceptionally large.
“Once trees gain
a canopy position,
they could be
there for 500 years,
putting out lots and
lots of seeds year
after year.”
PhotoscourtesyofStefanSchnitzer.

Lifetime Achievement Award
This award is presented on limited occasions when the UWM Alumni Association recognizes
an alumnus/alumna with exemplary achievements over the span of a lifetime. In the history
of the UWM Alumni Association, only 15 alumni have received the award.
Steven A. Davis
’80 BBA Marketing
Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer,
Bob Evans Farms Inc.
Steven A. Davis has built a career on
innovation and through strong, often
life-long, relationships. Currently Chairman
of the Board and CEO of Bob Evans
Farms Inc., a large restaurant and food
products company with sales of approximately
$1.6 billion, Davis got his start in business
with an internship at Northwestern Mutual
where the man who hired him became a
mentor and a friend.
Henry J. Davis Jr. notes that his brother, like
many UWM students, worked to pay for his
degree and never lost the values their parents
instilled in the five Davis siblings, all of whom
attended UWM.
Davis went on to shape retail food offerings
into nationally recognized products at Kraft
Foods and Yum Brands, which includes Pizza
Hut, Long John Silver’s and AW. As Senior
Vice President of Concept Development with
Pizza Hut, Davis led the team responsible for
the Wing Street idea.
Since moving to Columbus, Ohio, to head Bob
Evans in 2006, Davis and his spouse, Lynnda,
have immersed themselves in philanthropic
work, becoming active on numerous charitable
and research boards and with Operation Feed,
which provides food for hungry families across
central Ohio.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association
(UWMAA) is pleased to present the 2014 alumni awardees.
These alums have demonstrated excellence and outstanding
achievements in their careers and/or civic involvement.
The honorees are celebrated at the UWMAA’s annual
Alumni Awards Evening on November 14th
, 2014.
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Distinguished Alumni
Service Award
The Distinguished Alumni Service Award celebrates outstanding
UWM graduates whose professional achievements and
commitment to the community bring honor to the university.
Allyson Nemec
’90 MA
Architecture
Principal Architect
and President,
Quorum
Architects, LLC
Former UWM
Alumni Association
Board President
Allyson Nemec
has held numerous
leadership roles
in Milwaukee
and beyond,
including with
the Catch a
Rising Star Foundation, the Next Act Theater Advisory Board,
the Wisconsin Architects Foundation and the Historic
Preservation Commission.
Although Nemec was “thrilled” when she heard, it did not even
occur to her that she would ever be nominated for this award.
“There are so many other outcomes of the work I’ve done
with the university,” she says. “The friends and connections
I’ve made with staff and board members all helped me learn
more about UWM and its mission. Our firm’s work is making
Milwaukee a better place to learn, work and live.”
In both her role as President of the American Institute of
Architects-Wisconsin and as a past recipient of the Alumni
Association’s Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award,
Nemec has guided young students and interns in architecture
and helped them achieve their goals. She continues to volunteer
her time to SARUP.
“Architecture is a great profession,” says Nemec. “I try to open
that door to whomever I can. Tying what they’re learning in
school to what we’re doing in the studio offers an important
reality check to the profession, asking: ‘How can I take what I
learn and apply it?’”
UWM Foundation Alumni
Achievement Award
This award recognizes alumni who have achieved prominence,
accomplishment, recognition and demonstrate leadership in
their profession. Honorees represent characteristics of UWM’s
mission to serve a broad and diverse student body, who go on
to contribute to their community and/or profession in impactful
ways. This award is presented to one alumna/us annually.
Margaret
Rykowski
’76 BS Nursing,
’80 MS Nursing
Home Health
Agency and
Integrated
Rehabilitation
Service
Administrator,
San Francisco
Department of
Public Health
Margaret Rykowski
is a retired U.S.
Navy Rear Admiral,
one of only 18
nurses to ever achieve this rank, and was the Navy’s first nurse
to serve as Deputy Fleet Surgeon, a post formerly held only
by physicians. Rykowski served 26 years in the Naval Reserve
and was called to active duty three times, the first in 1991
to support Operation Desert Shield/Storm, again in 2003 in
support of Operation Enduring Freedom and a third time in 2007
when she was stationed in Germany as chief nurse, Deployed
Warrior Medical Management Center.
Rykowski retired from the Navy in 2013 as Deputy Director of
the Nurse Corps, Reserve Component, the highest position
a Navy nurse can attain. She was recently a nursing director
at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, one of
two in the Department of Public Health, where she has now
assumed a number of larger administrative positions.
Even with her decorated, barrier-breaking Naval career and
continued civilian accomplishments, Rykowski was surprised to
learn of her nomination for the Foundation Achievement Award.
“It’s quite an honor to be recognized,” she says. “I am very
fortunate and grateful to have had the opportunity to attend
nursing school at UWM; its innovative program laid down a
solid foundation for me so I could progress in my career.”
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UWM HONORS

Panther Pride
Volunteer Award
The Community Service award honors alumni who have
generously contributed their time and talents for the enrichment
of others and the betterment of their communities.
The Green Gulls are an active group of, primarily, octogenarian
alumni, student-athletes at the Wisconsin State Teachers
College-Milwaukee, UWM’s predecessor institution from 1927
to 1956. Although the Green Gulls was the previous institution’s
mascot name, this group of dedicated alumni have nothing but
Panther Pride, raising $40,000 to endow a scholarship in their
name for current UWM athletes and supporting the soon-to-be
endowed John Tierney Track and Field Scholarship.
“Many of us, perhaps most, who participated as a Green
Gull became educators and made important contributions
in the Milwaukee metropolitan area as teachers, principals,
superintendents and a few UWM faculty,” says William
Emanuelson, a Green Gull living in Pewaukee.
A number of different Green Gulls groups convene regularly
to share memories and plan social outings to Panthers games,
but also to generate more ideas to support UWM and its
Athletic Department.
Among the largest group of Green Gulls who meet at a
bi-monthly luncheon is David Bogenschild, a retired teacher
in the Brown Deer School District.
“As a 73-year-old I was the youngest of the group and
was the last graduating Green Gull class,” says Bogenschild,
“Each Green Gull has exhibited loyalty to and aid for both
athletic and academic programs at UWM.”
Members of the Green Gulls gather at a recent lunch meeting.
Community
Service Awards
The Community Service Award honors alumni who have
generously contributed their time and talents for the enrichment
of others and the betterment of their communities.
Matthew Jandrisevits
’06 PhD Urban Education
Psychologist, Children’s Hospital
of Wisconsin
Matthew Jandrisevits is a
community advocate for mental
health who works tirelessly, with
many other volunteers he admires,
as a psychologist at Milwaukee’s
Bread of Healing Clinic, Agape
Community Center and Cross
Lutheran Church. Jandrisevits
supervises and mentors graduate students in their practicum
placements while remaining attentive to children and the
disadvantaged, thus ensuring the betterment of our
community for all.
Michael J. Murphy
’86 Geological Sciences
Milwaukee Common Council
President, 10th District Alderman
Through 25 years of public service,
Alderman Michael Murphy has
helped Milwaukee through financial
difficulties and into an economic
resurgence. Murphy’s strong civic
ties and belief in education were
fostered by his immigrant parents,
and his siblings also graduated from
UWM. Murphy was named a Common Ground Hero for his
work securing 800 supportive housing units for at-risk groups.
Ursula Twombly
’85 BS Architectural Studies
Co-founder and Principal
Architect, Continuum Architects
The American Institute of Architects
(AIA) has recognized Ursula
Twombly as a “Citizen Architect”
for her commitments to both her
community and to the profession.
As president of the Walker’s Point
Association, Twombly has dedicated
countless hours toward the
Milwaukee neighborhood’s growth and in support of initiatives
that sustain and enhance the quality of life for all its residents.
Honorary Alumni
Awards
Mary B. Emory
Corporate Secretary for the
Board of American Friends
of the Musée d’Orsay
A longtime supporter of
UWM in numerous roles,
Mary Emory has most
recently been an active
member of the Friends of
the Golda Meir Library board
and the UWM Foundation’s
Development Committee. A
champion of the French program, Emory worked to build
the largest scholarship endowment for French students
and helped found the annual Festival of Films in French.
F. William Haberman
Attorney, Michael Best
and Friedrich
Bill Haberman has served
the UWM community for
nearly a decade, including
as chair and vice chair of
the UWM Foundation Board
of Directors. Haberman’s
commitment to philanthropic
giving in his role as president
of the Richard and Ethel
Herzfeld Foundation has
greatly benefitted UWM, including in the development
of the Innovation Campus in Wauwatosa.
Graduate of the Last
Decade (GOLD) Awards
The GOLD award recognizes recent undergraduates who have achieved
a measure of success in their fields, bringing credit to themselves
and the university.
Michael Cotey
’08 BFA Theatre Acting
Founding Artistic Director,
Youngblood Theatre Company
Michael Cotey has created his own performance
spaces in Youngblood with four other actors
from the BFA program, acted at the Milwaukee
Repertory, First Stage Children’s Theatre and Next
Act Theatre. He has gone on to direct productions
at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and the
Illinois Shakespeare Festival, among others.
He will continue to hone his considerable
talents in the MFA Directing Program at Northwestern University.
Nicholas W. Wichert
’07 BA Psychology
Co-founder, Global Entrepreneurship
Collective, Vetransfer Inc. and Offermation
A Division I scholarship athlete, Nicholas Wichert
is now a leader in founding seed accelerators
and start-ups. Recognized by the White House
as a “Champion of Change,” Wichert’s similarly
award-winning start-up companies have reduced
unemployment in Milwaukee’s central city and
increased entrepreneurship opportunities for
veterans. Wichert is also part-time faculty at
UWM and Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Corporate Partner Awards
The Corporate Partner Award recognizes corporations or nonprofit organizations that have a significant impact on the campus and/or
on the lives of alumni and students by assisting in the advancement, growth and/or development of UWM.
Northwestern Mutual has supported
programs across the university since 1976.
Northwestern’s scholarship support of full
tuition and books has been awarded to 41
UWM students since 2006, and its many
alumni employees have provided mentorship
relationships to recipients. Northwestern’s
support for Actuarial Sciences advanced
the program to be on par with the nation’s
highest ranked and increased the number
of graduates sevenfold.
In addition to sponsoring the Student
Design Awards for 10 years, Spancrete has
partnered with the School of Architecture
and Urban Planning to develop and sustain
the country’s first academy/industry-based
architectural design school focused on precast
concrete. Spancrete has been a leader in
the precast industry for nearly 70 years
and a prominent community supporter of
organizations like the Ronald McDonald House.
We Energies has been investing in
research and philanthropy with various
university partners for 39 years, from
funding faculty members’ research programs
to sending employees to judge student
presentations. In addition to funding major
competitions on campus, strategic investments
include wind energy research, the Renewable
Energy Research Fund and Innovation Campus,
the UWM Real Estate Foundation’s new
campus in Wauwatosa.
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Milwaukee’s downtown arena is the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.
A NEW NAME –
UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena
– defines more than basketball
The naming puts UWM in the heart of Milwaukee’s
entertainment district, giving the university visibility with
commuters, residents and tourists, while also providing
UWM students and alumni a larger venue for events.
In a broad agreement that gives the university more than
just naming rights, the Wisconsin Center District (WCD), which
owns and operates the arena, will also give UWM priority in
choosing dates for its use, guaranteeing that all Panther home
games can be played there.
As part of the agreement, the university will also have
use of any of the WCD buildings for entertainment events,
such as concerts or speakers. Besides the arena, WCD owns
and operates the Wisconsin (Convention) Center and the
Milwaukee Theatre.
UWM Interim Chancellor Mark Mone said the agreement
helps underscore UWM’s role as the region’s leading university.
“Having UWM’s name on the downtown arena is an
important symbol of our deep commitment to Milwaukee
and the entire region,” Mone said. “It fits well with our
strategic plan to enhance the university’s brand and to further
position UWM as Milwaukee’s university.”
Mone said that no
tax dollars are being used
for the marketing and
sponsorship initiative,
which costs $300,000 a
year. Instead, it is being
financed with UWM
Foundation resources and
by reallocating funds in
the existing budgets of
three university divisions
– University Relations
Communications, Student
Affairs and Athletics.
The term of the
agreement is 10 years,
but the university has the
option of extending it to
2029. UWM will continue to use the arena for its
commencement ceremonies under a separate contract.
The arena has been the site of most Panther men’s
basketball games over the past decade. Now, red and blue
spectator seats will be replaced with black and gold seats,
a new overhead scoreboard with UWM signage will be
installed and locker rooms will be updated.
UWM Athletic Director Amanda Braun sees the agree-
ment as a boon for recruiting student athletes. Stronger bonds
among new students and deeper alumni connections are other
expected outcomes. UWM will continue to use the arena for its
commencement ceremonies in December and May.
“It’s going to be great for recruiting and it’s going to be great
for our student congregation – a place for them to come to the
heart of the city and a presence for our institution,” said Braun.
“UWM students also will benefit from the ability of UWM
to attract more popular entertainment acts in a venue with
more than four times the capacity of the Klotsche Center,”
said Michael Laliberte, vice chancellor for student affairs. And
tickets for many of the non-athletic events will be offered to
UWM students either for free or at a greatly reduced cost.
“On campus we have the capacity of bringing only
about 3,200 of our 28,000 students together,” said
Laliberte. The arena can accommodate 11,000.
For Panther head basketball coach Rob Jeter,
the agreement means UWM finally has a place
of its own. “It’s going to help us tremendously,
not only with recruiting and visibility but more
importantly, with our connectedness to the
community,” said Jeter. “Our student athletes
have done close to a 1,000 hours of community
service in Milwaukee in the past year and
there is no better way to tie that messaging
together than by having a downtown home.
This is our home.”
“It’s going to help
us tremendously, not
only with recruiting
and visibility but more
importantly, with
our connectedness
to the community…”
2014
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what a year it will be.
What a year it was,
When approaching the fall athletic season for the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Athletics, expectations
of success across the board have almost become the standard.
The 2013-14 season stands as further proof that the Panthers’
multi-sports success continues, as UWM cemented its hold on
the Horizon League’s McCafferty Trophy – awarded annually to the
league’s all-sports champion.
When the season was over, Milwaukee had a pair of title sweeps,
with volleyball and women’s soccer claiming crowns for the regular-
season title and the Horizon League Tournament championship.
Men’s soccer nearly made it a trifecta, with a close runner-up finish
in second place of the regular season before knocking off the top
finisher in the Horizon League Tournament championship en route
to a third team NCAA Tournament appearance.
The department was a success on the team level, as well as
the individual student-athlete level. UWM pulled off the near-
unprecedented accomplishment of having the Horizon League Player
of the Year in volleyball, women’s soccer and men’s soccer. The only
other time this was accomplished in conference history came in
1993, by none other than Notre Dame.
Visions of volleyball success in ’14-‘15
Volleyball has won either the regular season or tournament
championship in league play in 16 of its 17 seasons under Head
Coach Susie Johnson. Ten of the last 17 Panther squads have
qualified for the NCAA Tournament.
And, Johnson completed an impressive turnaround a season
ago. A year after injuries to key players kept Milwaukee out of the
postseason, Johnson led the squad back to the top of the league.
Milwaukee does lose Horizon League Player of the Year Rachel
Neuberger from last year’s team but otherwise brings back the full
roster. The list of returnees is highlighted by All-Horizon League
performers Julie Kolinske and Kayla Price, and all-freshman team
honoree Myanna Ruiz.
The Panthers will be seeking their tenth league regular season
crown in the last 12 years along with their eleventh NCAA
Tournament berth.
Women’s soccer aims for regular-season title no. 15
Women’s soccer continues to reach the top of the conference
standings year-in and year-out. The team has now extended
the longest active streak in the country to 14 consecutive regular-
season titles.
The team came up big in postseason play. The Panthers had
already erased deficits of 1-0 and 2-1, but found themselves down
3-2 to Oakland with less than five minutes to go in the tournament
championship last year. UWM stayed cool under pressure as
Kelsey Holbert netted the equalizer in the 87th minute, setting the
stage for the Horizon League Player of the Year as Kelly Lewers
netted the dramatic winning goal with 23 seconds left.
Men’s soccer builds on last
year’s best-in-ten season
Head coach Kris Kelderman
has led a men’s soccer resur-
gence. It didn’t take him long to
make a positive impression with
the Panthers, posting the first
winning regular season for the
team in seven years in his initial
campaign in the fall of 2012.
He upped the ante in year
two, guiding his team to a
15-3-2 record during the 2013
campaign, capped by the ninth
NCAA Tournament appearance
in program history. A 2013 WSA
‘College Coach of the Year’
nominee, his two-year turn-
around of the program has been
remarkable – Milwaukee is 23-11-4 since his arrival after having
posted a win-loss record of 24-55-15 the prior five seasons combined.
The 15 victories in 2013 marked the most for UWM since 2003. They
have also been very tough to beat at Engelmann Stadium under his
watch, posting a 12-2-2 mark in that span.
The team was prolific on both sides of the ball in 2013. The
offense, led by All-American Laurie Bell, paced the Horizon League in
nearly all categories, finishing 13th in scoring and 16th in total goals at
the NCAA Division I level. It was just as good on defense, setting a
school record with a 0.63 goals against average – breaking the mark
of 0.67 set in 2002 – in ranking seventh in the NCAA in team GAA
and 11th with its 10 shutouts, doing it all with a rookie freshman Liam
Anderson – in net.
The team got off to the second-best start in program history,
posting a 9-0-1 record in the first 10 games before an overtime loss
ended the streak. That stretch helped the Panthers earn their first
national ranking since 2003, peaking at third in the region and 24th
in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll in
early October.
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alma mater. From the institution’s successful basketball
programs to our innovative teaching practices and community
investments, UWM is easy to take pride in. That’s why more
than 200 UWM alumni have already stood up to spread the
word about all that UWM has to offer by becoming an Alumni
Ambassador. Alumni are focusing their enthusiasm for their
alma mater to help make a difference.
UWM’s Alumni Ambassador Program, launched in the
spring of 2013, is providing alumni the opportunity to give
back to their alma mater with their time and talent. By joining
UWM recruiters at college fairs, high school visits and campus
events, Alumni help paint a colorful picture of the UWM
experience for prospective students. Providing a memorable
connection with prospective students increases the odds
that a prospective student will make the decision to commit
their future to UWM, and will enrich the institution for
future generations.
When asked what she enjoyed most about her recent
experience at an on-campus recruitment event, Alumni
Ambassador Celita Kouzes (’02) said: “I loved being on
campus and getting to know this amazing young group.
The parents were amazing too! I met with people from
Green Bay, Beloit and Appleton. I hope they all pick UWM
because it is the best place to get a great education and
enjoy unique surroundings. Whether you are looking for
friendship, different cultures or something else, I can
guarantee you will find a place at UWM.”
By engaging well-trained, knowledgeable and enthusiastic
alumni as active participants in the university’s recruitment
efforts, the Alumni Ambassador Program is making a
difference for the broader UWM community. This fall, the
university is already outpacing last year’s enrollment numbers
and this is just the beginning.
Opportunities to join Alumni Ambassadors and give back
to UWM include:
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U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n - M i l wau k ee
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28 • UWM alumni Fall 2014
The transformation of vacant space
on the Milwaukee County Grounds into a
third-generation research park anchored
by the University will take place over the
next 10 years. Already the UWM Innovation
Accelerator is up and running. The first
corporate tenant, ABB, has occupied its
95,000-square-feet building and architects
for the $75-million UWM research building
will begin work this fall.
Key gifts from regional leaders and
innovators continue to move Innovation
Campus forward, and further signal
that southeast Wisconsin is ready for a
powerful combination of industry, academia
and nonprofit research organizations working
in partnership at one strategic location.
Notable among those gifts are two
major contributions from the Nicholas Family
Foundation and the Richard and
Ethel Herzfeld Foundation.
“I hope the Nicholas Family Foundation
gift will inspire others to commit resources
to Innovation Campus,” says Nicholas
Family Foundation President Lynn Nicholas.
“The launch of the Innovation Accelerator
building has already brought new energy
to the area, and I expect other successes
will follow.”
When Wauwatosa native Nicholas first
toured the campus in fall 2013 with UWM
Director of University Corporate Relations
Gillian Stewart, the Accelerator building was
little more than a shell. But the University’s
message about innovation and job creation
resonated with the Foundation – and with
more than a dozen local mayors who had
toured the grounds during early stages of
construction.
Nicholas announced a
$750,000 gift to coincide
with the accelerator’s grand
opening in 2014.
This gift mirrors an earlier investment
made by the Richard and Ethel Herzfeld
Foundation, longtime contributors and
partners to the University on multiple
fronts: architecture, the performing arts
and breakthrough science research
through the Catalyst Grant program.
“The history of the Richard and Ethel
Herzfeld Foundation is a colorful tapestry
of strategic investment – in the arts and
culture, in education, in our overall civic life.
In so many varied and vibrant ways, your
generosity has made the fabric of Greater
Milwaukee and Wisconsin stronger,”
Interim Chancellor Mark Mone says of
this $750,000 gift.
Says Stewart, “We are deeply
grateful to the Nicholas Family and Herzfeld
foundations for their generous expression of
confidence in UWM’s vision for Innovation
Campus. We invite other community leaders
to see for themselves the exciting changes
that are taking place.”
UWM’s vision for a world-class public-private research park on the Milwaukee County Grounds
– as well as for a more prosperous, innovative and collaborative economy in southeast
Wisconsin – took a major step in spring 2014, when the Accelerator building on UWM’s
Innovation Campus welcomed its first tenants.
Gillian Stewart, left, and Nicholas Family
Foundation President Lynn Nicholas during a
tour of UWM’s Innovation Campus in summer
‘13. The campus has come a long way since
then with the help of major contributions from
the Nicholas Family and Herzfeld Foundations.
Herzfeld and Nicholas Foundations are Key Players
Innovation Campusat

Luis Arreaga
‘75, BBA Marketing,
’76, Masters in Management,
’81, PhD Economics
Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Bureau
of International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement Affairs
Ambassador Luis Arreaga serves as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Affairs. In this role, he is responsible for programs
that combat illicit drugs and organized crime.
Prior to this appointment, Ambassador Arreaga
served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of
Iceland and Director of Recruitment, where he led
efforts to recruit and hire the largest increase in
Foreign Service personnel in State Department
history. He is a career member of the Foreign
Service with the rank of Minister Counselor.
He has also served in a variety of governmental
positions including Deputy Chief of Mission
at the U.S. Embassy in Panama, U.S. Consul
General in Vancouver, Canada, and as director
of the Executive Secretariat Staff at the U.S.
Department of State in Washington, D.C.
Overseas postings include the United Nations
in Geneva, the U.S. Embassy in Spain and the
Agency for International Development in Peru,
El Salvador and Honduras.
Luis Arreaga was born and raised in Guatemala
before immigrating to the U.S. and eventually
attending UWM.
“My goal on the board is to bring my 30 years
of experience as a diplomat to help formulate
approaches that reach alumni living overseas, and
enlist them in our efforts to strengthen UWM,”
says Arreaga.
Board of Trustees 2014-15
Adrienne Bass,
Executive Director
Officers
President: David Misky (`92),
Assistant Executive Director,
Redevelopment Authority of the
City of Milwaukee
Vice President: Brentell Handley
(`92), Vice President, Business
Banking, BMO Harris Bank, N.A.
Secretary: Kathryn Gilbert (`80),
Associate Dean of the Arts,
Alverno College
Treasurer: Scott Conger (`91),
Senior Vice President, Pennant
Management
Trustees
Luis Arreaga (`75, `76, `81),
Deputy Assistant Secretary,
U.S. Bureau of International
Narcotics and Law Enforcement,
Benjamin Butz (`04, `07),
Director-Membership Engagement
and Innovation, American College
of Preventive Medicine
Filippo Carini (`88),
Chief Administrative Officer,
United Way of Greater Milwaukee
Barbara Cooley (`78, `91),
Budget Policy Analyst,
UWM Office of Budget Planning
Jason Eggert (`10),
Vice President-Business Banking,
Associated Bank
Stelios Fakiroglou (`80),
Project Manager/Architectural
Sales Representative,
Weather-Tek Design Center
Meg Jansky (`85),
Vice President-Field Services and
Support, Northwestern Mutual
Chris Larson (`07),
Senator, District 7,
Wisconsin State Legislature
Alberto Maldonado (`96, `10),
Assistant Director for High School
Recruitment, UWM Department
of Admissions Recruitment
Rita Nawrocki-Chabin (`00),
Professor, Program in General
Education, Alverno College
Allyson Nemec (`90),
President, Quorum Architects
Dele Ojelabi (`99),
CEO, Comcentia, LLC
Rosalee Patrick (`91),
Order Management Specialist,
GE Healthcare
Frank Schneiger (`64),
Founder and President,
Frank Schneiger and Associates
Adrien Tigert (`05, `06),
Territory Manager, EMC Corporation
Michael Wolaver (`02),
Owner, Magellan Promotions, LLC
Clarice Yenor (`73),
Manager of Policy Performance,
Walt Disney Parks Resorts U.S.
Misky Handley Gilbert Conger
Meg Jansky
‘85, BBA Management
Information Systems and
Industrial Relations
Vice President – Field Services and
Support, Northwestern Mutual
As vice president of field services
and support at Northwestern Mutual,
Meg Jansky is an expert at leading
organizational development. She now
combines that expertise with her passion
for UWM to contribute to the growth of
the university.
Shortly after graduating, Jansky joined
Northwestern Mutual and has worked in
key operational and information technology
positions throughout her career.
In her current role, she provides a
foundation for efficient operations to
grow Northwestern Mutual’s distribution
system. Her department is responsible
for field technology, contract, licensing
and registration, and support of various
operations in field network offices across
the country.
She also continues her commitment to
her alma mater.
“Currently, approximately 20 percent
of Northwestern Mutual’s workforce are
UWM graduates,” says Jansky. “I am
excited to connect these employees to
the university so that they too will become
advocates for UWM.”
Jansky lives in the UWM area where
she raised two children with her husband,
Joe. She is active in a mentoring program
associated with the Bruce Guadalupe
School, and participates in many university
activities including basketball games,
library events and running in several
Panther Prowl races.
Frank Schneiger
‘64, BS Political Science
and History
Founder and President, Frank Schneiger
and Associates
Since graduating from UWM, Frank
Schneiger has put his education to work
in a variety of ways.
Currently, he is founder and president
of Frank Schneiger and Associates, a
management planning and consulting
firm that serves public, small business
and nonprofit organizations.
Past roles include founder and CEO of
Comprehensive Medical Management Inc.,
Health Commissioner for the City of New
York, Executive Director of Implementation
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Children and Family Services department,
Executive Director of the Region II Child
Protective Services Institute and Executive
Assistant to Congressman James Scheuer,
during which he organized the first
Vietnam veterans conference held in
the northeast U.S.
He served as the United Nations
Association consultant on the Soviet
environment for the first Earth Day, is
an accomplished author and has served
on the executive committees for several
organizations including the Brooklyn Navy
Yard Development Corporation.
In 2013, he received the UWM
Distinguished Alumnus Award for
Community Service.
“UWM is the best school I have ever
attended and it was life-changing for me,”
says Schneiger. “Now I look forward to
helping grow a strong alumni organization,
and engaging other alumni that had the
same great UWM experience as I did.”
Welcome, new board members
The UWM Alumni Association proudly welcomed the following
new members to its Board of Trustees this summer.

David J. Maher (’87 BS)
is a new member of Mays
Kerr LLC. The firm is expanding
its Employment Law
Litigation, Wage Hour, and
Appellate practices. Maher’s
focus will be on cases involving
employment, litigation and
wage and hour issues, including
individual and collective actions,
misclassification, unpaid hours
claims and discrimination suits
that violate the Fair Labor
Standards Act (FLSA).
Kelly Womer (’89 BA) was
welcomed into the Public Relations
Society of America (PRSA) College
of Fellows. Womer is currently
a vice president and partner at
Linhart Public Relations.
Cheryl A. Michalek
(’89 BFA) joined The Starr Group
as its new Marketing/Social
Media Specialist.
Mark A. Kassel (’89 MS)
is an intellectual property lawyer
with Foley Lardner in Verona,
WI. Kassel was recognized as one
of the leading lawyers in his field
in the 2014 edition of “Chambers
USA: America’s Leading Lawyers
for Business.” Foley and Lardner
LLP has approximately 900
attorneys in 21 offices across
the country.
Mike Flory (’88 BS) was
awarded the Blackhawk Technical
College Instructor of the Year
Award in May 2014. This award
is chosen through an online
nomination process in which
the faculty, staff and students
nominate the instructor that goes
“above and beyond. “
1990s
Satya Nadella (’90 MBA)
started his career with Microsoft
in 1992 and most recently
oversaw the company’s computing
platforms, developer tools and
cloud services. As the third CEO
of Microsoft, he succeeds
Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.
Leda Strand (’90 BS, ’03
MBA) has been named Wixon’s
Vice President of Research and
Development, a manufacture
of seasonings, flavors and
technologies for the food
and beverage industry.
Teresa Heil (’98 BFA) has
been named the 2014 Montana
Art Educator of the Year by
the National Art Education
Association (NAEA). This
award recognizes excellence in
professional accomplishment
and service by a dedicated art
educator. Heil teaches K-12
visual art at Frazer School and
is an adjunct instructor at Fort
Peck Community College,
both located n the Fort
Peck Indian Reservation in
northeastern Montana.
Phillip Fader (’90 MBA) has
been elected to the partnership
of Wipfli LLP, a national CPA and
consulting firm with 23 offices
across the United States.
Cynthia Marifke (’93 BS)
recently joined UWM’s Graduate
School as a University Associate.
Andy Narrai (’90 BA),
Director of Marketing at Reinhart
Boerner Van Deuren, received
American Advertising Federation
(AAF), Barton A. Cummings Gold
Medal Award. The annual award
recognizes distinguished volunteer
service to the advertising industry
through the AAF.
Erich Guenther (’90 BBA)
recently started and self-funded
Guenther National Management.
Inc., a Texas-based corporation.
Guenther National Management
will assemble several small
service businesses under the
ownership of one firm and apply
information technology concepts
of service automation and
business intelligence to increase
client satisfaction.
Dorothy Snow (’97 BBA)
is Director of Marketing at
Wangard property management
and brand experiences.
Sara Van Deurzen (’99 BA)
has been an educator since 2001
and returned to school at UWM
to receive her second teaching
license in Special Education. In
2011 she graduated from Marian
University with a Principal and
Director of Special Education and
Pupil Service licenses.
Dave Perron (’99 BS) is
a lead singer for the alt-country/
roots-based band, The Laughing
Bones, from Vail Valley. Perron
has been an active member of the
Colorado music scene for more
than 10 years.
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1950s
Carl Dietrich (’59 BS) has
had a major influence on United
States history from traveling
with the Navy to being a NASA
team member. Dietrich worked
on the bomb-navigation system
for the B-52, the Titan I missile,
the guidance and navigation
for the Titan II missile, the
Ace missile, the Regulus,
the Poseidon and the Apollo
program. Dietrich is now retired
and enjoying his down time.
1960s
Thomas Trimborn
(’67 BFA and ’68 MM) retired
in spring 2014 as Emeritus
Professor of Music from Truman
State University where he taught
since 1993, in a teaching career
that spanned 45 years. Prior to
his joining the Truman faculty,
Trimborn taught at Palatine
High School in Illinois, and
Valparaiso University in Indiana.
1970s
Jed Dolnick (’78 BS) was
elected as President of the
Wisconsin Chiefs of Police
Association in Jackson, WI.
Dennis R. McBride
(’76 BMC) is an alderman for
the city of Wauwatosa. McBride
was elected by his colleagues to
a second term as president
of the Common Council.
Doctor Stanley
Rothman
(’70 Ph.D) is the author of
“Sandlot Stats: Learning
Statistics with Baseball”
published by The Johns Hopkins
University Press. The book
was written as an introductory
college statistics course for
non-majors but can also be
appreciated by high school
statistics classes and for
individuals who are interested
in statistics. Rothman has been
a professor of mathematics
since 1970 at Quinnipiac
University in Hamden, CT.
Phillip C. Schwartz
(’76 BS) is following his passion
through missionary work in
Hong Kong, China and Nepal.
Sarah G. Holterhoff
(’75 MBA) received the 2014
Robert L. Oakley Advocacy
Award. Holterhoff is the
government information/
reference librarian and associate
professor of law librarianship
at Valparaiso (Ind.) University
Law School Library.
Harold (Hal) E. Mattson
(’77 MBA) was named Taxaide
Local Coordinator for the
Mission Viejo, CA area. AARP
Foundation. Tax-Aide is the
nation’s largest volunteer-run
tax preparation and assistance
service with more than 35,000
volunteers serving over 2.6
million low to mid-income
taxpayers annually at nearly
6,000 sites nationwide.
Chuck Topetzes (’76 BA)
and Jean Raetz-Topetzes
(’74 BFA) have been married for
more than 30 years and have
two children. They reside in
Atlanta, Ga.
Evelyn Patricia Terry
(’70 BFA, ’73 MS) was one
of two artists selected as
Artists of the Year by the
Milwaukee Arts Board.
Maureen A. McGinnity
(’77 BS) is a business litigation
lawyer with Foley Lardner in
West Bend, WI. McGinnity was
recognized as leading lawyer
in her field in the 2014 edition
of “Chambers USA: America’s
Leading Lawyers for Business.”
Foley and Lardner LLP has
approximately 900 attorneys in
21 offices across the country.
1980s
Brian Wagner (’88 MBA)
is president of Gamber-Johnson
LLC in Stevens Point, Wis.
Wagner was awarded the
President’s “E” Award by
the United States Secretary
of Commerce.
Rich Bub (’82 ME) former
CEO of GREAF, will receive the
Lifetime Achievement award
from the University of Wisconsin
Construction Club.
Maytee Aspuro
(’82 BBA, ’91 MS) retired as
Chief Information Officer/
Information Technology Director
of the Wisconsin Department
of children and Families.
Aspuro has formed AYG
Management consulting, a
sole proprietorship providing
business and management
training and consulting service
in Madison, Wis.
Donald J. Terras
(’83 MS), director of the
Lighthouse District of Evanston
and Grosse Point Lighthouse
National Landmark, has received
the Award for Life Achievement/
Preservationist of the
Year award.
Scott F. Georgeson
(’84 MAR) was invited to
the Speakers Committee
of the International Theatre
Engineering and Architecture
Conference to present at ITEAC
2014 in London. The ITEAC
will bring together the world’s
leading theater designers
and practitioners.
Judy Steffes (’86 MA) has
raised more than $26,000 in
sponsorships for individuals
facing Alzheimer’s disease,
through Alzheimer’s programs
at Cedar Community’s new
Cottages at Cedar Run
memory-loss assisted living.
Steffes is raising the money
by riding her bike from Nova
Scotia to Wisconsin.
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Fader
Narrai
Snow
Van Deurzen
Strand

2000s
Danica Rae Duening
(’01 BA) was initiated as an
alumna at UCLA into the Alpha
Iota Chapter of Gamma Phi Beta.
Karen Schlieve (’05 BA)
was selected Vice President
of Red Shoes Firm. Schlieve
was selected as one of the
15 young professionals.
Paul Klajbor (06’ MBA) is
the Assistant Dean for UWM’s
College of Engineering and
Applied Science. Klajbor is the
Unit business Rep and Human
Resources Rep handling the
finances and human resources
for the college.
Antoinette
D’Acquisto-Jackson
(’02 BS) welcomed a new
addition to her family, baby girl
Victoria Elia.
Jennifer Kraft (‘04 BBA)
was promoted to director of
business development of GREAF.
GREAF is a Milwaukee-based
engineering and consulting firm.
Drew Morton (’06 BA) is
an Assistant Professor of Mass
Communication at Texas AM
University-Texarkana. Morton
established the first peer-
reviewed academic journal of
videographic film and moving
image studies.
Joan Zivich (’05 MLIS)
received the 2014 OVATION
Award. The OVATION Award
honors an individual librarian
who has made outstanding
professional contributions
impacting Indiana Health
Sciences Librarian Association
(IHSLA), her individual
library, and the provision
of health information.
Maureen Fay (’07 BA) is
the Marketing Manager at
DCI-Artform. DCI-Artform is
an industry-leading company
that provides retail marketing
solutions for clients. Fay brings
seven years of traditional
agency experience with BVK
and Laughlin Constable in
Milwaukee.
Katie Rhyme (’09 BFA),
co-founder of Dance Revolution
Milwaukee, announced the
seventh installment of her and
co-founder Karen Zakrzewski’s
(’09 BFA) successful variety
show “MKE Follies.” The show
is featured every other month
and contributes to local artist’s
work in dance, music, theatre,
and comedy.
Chad Venne (’05 BA)
is Executive Vice Property
Management at Wangard
property management and
brand experiences.
Curt Hoffmann (’03 BSAS),
AIA, LEED AP, was elected
to serve as an associate of
GRAEF at the firm’s 2014
annual meeting. GREAF is a
Wisconsin-based engineering
and consulting firm.
2010s
Adam Ausloos (’12 MBA)
was named the financial
advisor as the Brookfield, Wis.,
office of Ameriprise Financial
Services Inc.
Rob Baunoch lll (’11 MBA)
is the co-founder of HIPZEE,
a new storytelling company
and website. Baunouch had
the opportunity to be part of
the producer team of the off-
Broadway hit, “Heathers the
Musical.’”
Connie L. Lindsey
(’11 BBA), executive vice
president and head of corporate
social responsibility and global
diversity inclusion at Northern
Trust, was elected to the
national board of directors
of the Leukemia Lymphoma
Society (LLS).
Jim Heinden (’12 Ph.D),
a career special educator,
administrator and longtime
volunteer leader within The
Council for Exceptional Children
(CEC), was elected president
of CEC.
Bekaah Schultz (’10 BS)
is an international logistics
specialist for Trek Bikes in
Waterloo, Wis. Schultz is
working with imports and
exports in Mexico.
BASEBALLSAVE THE DATE
for SPRING TRAINING
MARCH 4th 2015
Join us in Arizona on March 4th at Maryvale Baseball Park
for a special exhibition game between the UWM Panthers
and the Milwaukee Brewers.
This is the first time the Brewers have faced a collegiate
team in an exhibition game since 1983, and the first time
playing the Panthers, the only Division One baseball team
in Wisconsin.
JOIN THE MAILING LIST
Contact Sarah McCalvy at mccalvys@uwm.edu or
414-229-3291 for additional event details.
Phoenix ARIZONA
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CLASSnotes
Kraft
Fay
Venne
Hoffmann
Ausloos
Baby Victoria Elia

b y K at i e Z a p f e l
Color runs, mud runs, glow runs…these days, 5Ks are all the
rage. But when it comes to fun and philanthropy, Panther Prowl is
finishing first and turning 10 on Sunday, Oct. 12.
Marking its 10-year anniversary, the race takes off from UWM’s
eastside campus and winds through Upper Lake Park. The race
supports UWM student scholarships, and is open to all alumni as
well as their friends, families and supporters of the University.
“Panther Prowl is a great opportunity for alumni to reconnect
with the campus,” says David Misky, president of the UWM
Alumni Association board of trustees. “Part of that connection is
sharing memories and making new ones with family and friends.”
This year, the event features something for everyone including
a new route and a Kids Dash event – a quarter-mile race open to
children ages 12 and under.
But the party doesn’t stop there.
Prowlers will be able to use all their post-race adrenaline cel-
ebrating after they’ve crossed the finish line. Festivities include an
awards ceremony with individual and team prizes,
a Packer party at the Gasthaus and even a ‘Best-Dressed Dog”
competition.
Yes, four-legged friends besides Pounce are also welcome to
join in the fun.
More than just a great workout
In addition to community building, Panther Prowl helps build
and strengthen UWM student scholarship programs to ensure
that the university’s proud academic tradition continues to grow
for years to come.
Approximately 42 percent of UWM students who applied for
financial aid are first generation college students.
Panther Prowl contributions help increase educational
opportunities for many students who may not otherwise be able
to pursue a college education.
“The alumni scholarship not only lifted some of the burden
of financing college, but allowed me to connect with many
successful UWM alumni,” says Sierra Townsend, a senior
in the Lubar School of Business and UWM Alumni Association
scholarship recipient.
Making strides through generosity
Individuals and teams participating in Panther Prowl are
encouraged to collect pledges – and their efforts don’t go
unnoticed. This year, the top pledger will win a unique UWM
bicycle courtesy of the UWM Bookstore.
Panther Prowl is also made possible by the contributions of
many sponsors, including Liberty Mutual, Delzer, Army ROTC and
many other generous organizations. Every dollar collected from
these sponsors goes directly toward student scholarships to help
enrich the lives of hard-working UWM students.
As the 10-year anniversary celebration kicks off, it’s safe to say
Panther Prowl is making strides to a bright future for the entire
UWM community – past, present and future.
“Hearing stories from UWM alumni provides perspective on my
educational career,” says Townsend. “I am honored to be a part of
a school that embraces the future while cherishing its past.”
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