Union wins 9 of 12 conference awards

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Marketing Department won nine out of a possible 12 awards at a regional union conference on Nov. 6.

UWM won the awards at the Association of College Unions International regional conference, which was held in Chicago.

Every UWM designer who entered the competition won a first-place prize.

Students Jason Behlke, who is also the production editor for the Post, and Jeremy Mlodik and designers Bill Drewek, Jarrod Beglinger and Andy Reis all won first-place prizes.

UWM competed against schools such as UW-Madison, Northwestern and Marquette, said Christina Edgerton, marketing manager.

UWM is in region 8, which is composed of Wisconsin, the upper peninsula of Michigan and the metropolitan Chicago area.

Google search engine up for UWM

The UWM Web site on Monday started to use a Google-based search engine for the campus.

Previously, the search engine often did not bring up hits that were close to the original searches. The result of the new search engine will be faster and more accurate results.

The search engine first appeared Monday, Nov. 14.

Google also has its own UWM search engine at www.google.com/univ/uwm.

Biosciences center recipient of $500,000 award

The UWM Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center has been named as a funding recipient from the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Research Resources.

The funding, $500,000 for two years for a Science Education Partnership Award, will help UWM’s environmental health sciences outreach programs. The center is one of nine recipients.

The funding will provide training materials for middle-school science teachers, and will support a new partnership between UWM and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md. The institute will adopt UWM’s training modules based on the study of zebrafish toxicology.

The partnership will be the first time that two U.S. institutions that are recipients of the partnership award will collaborate on a project.

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