As of July 1, undergraduate students across the country will see the 3.4 percent interest rate on their subsidized Stafford student loans double to 6.8 percent. That is, unless the federal government intervenes.

Jarett Fields and Lisa Erin Brown, UWM academic staff member and UWM student, respectively, have both declared themselves candidates for the 18th District seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly, and are collecting signatures to get on the ballot for the Democratic Primary in August.

Nearly a year after being named the 20th best program in the world by The Hollywood Reporter, UWM’s film department in Peck School of the Arts is seeing a spike in enrollment and interest, while alumni go on to produce nationally recognized works.

Two premier scholarships to be suspended next year

The first lecture for the April Science Bag series, “Your Immune System: Up-Close and Personal” leaves an audience in laughter. Dr. Douglas Steeber and Dr. Heather Owen from the UWM Biology Department used toys and fun analogies to educate an audience of all ages on how the human immune system works and how allergies affect us. They encouraged audience participation through volunteering for demonstrations and opportunities to ask questions.

Three set of candidates for president and vice president debated campus issues before elections

Various UWM faculty and staff reflect on the issue of plagiarism, recalling previous cases and sharing personal opinions of the current policy. Associate Vice Chancellor Jim Hill discusses a national survey conducted in April that will give data and plagiarism comparisons to other colleges and universities in the country of how students feel about the matter.

Thousands of UWM students at risk daily

Two professors with degrees in philosophy debated the Intelligent Design versus Dariwnism debate at UWM.

A UWM sophomore of the College of Letters and Science unexpectedly died on the morning of March 5, leaving students and faculty shocked. Connor Driscoll, 19, went to the Kotsche Center pool around 7:30 a.m. with his roommate Samuel Hemes. Driscoll was swimming underwater, came up for air, then appeared to sink. He was pronounced dead shortly after 8 a.m.