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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Office of Sustainability was founded in 2008, and oversees all of UWM’s recycling, composting, and surplus.

In this episode, we toured the UWM University Services and Research Building at 4090 N. First St. and got an exclusive look at how they process UWM’s recycling.

We also toured the Surplus Store where UWM students and members of the community can visit to purchase surplus items at a discounted price. The most common items according to Sustainability...

Professor Thomas Haigh manages the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee History Department’s Retrocomputing Lab which holds a growing collection of fully functional personal computer hardware.

The RetroLab holds around 50 fully-functioning machines including 8-bit, 16-bit, Desktop PCs, Apple Macs, Laptops, Handheld Devices, and Gaming Consoles from different decades.

There are only four Retrocomputing Labs in the U.S. at UWM, the University of Victoria, the University of Colorado and Washington State University. UWM Students can visit by appointment or during open house sessions which are announced on their mailing list.

UWM Urban Spelunking is a docuseries that explores several of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s most historic buildings and locations.

Emeritus Professor Laurie Glass manages the Center for Nursing History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Founded in 1973, the Center for Nursing History is the largest collection of nursing memorabilia in the United States.

The Center for Nursing History has a three-pronged approach for collecting. Photographs and documents are sent to UWM’s Golda Meir Library Archives Department. Rare historical nursing books are sent to the library’s Special Collections department, which currently hou...

Cunningham Hall houses the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Nursing. To learn more about the building, we talked to Laurie Glass, professor emerita and manager of the UWM’s center for nursing history.

In this episode, we will explore the new UWM Marketing, Communications and University Relations studio and what’s left of the old TV studio that was in the building when it was built in 1973.

UWM Urban Spelunking is a docuseries that explores several of University of Wisconsin-Milwau...

Bobby Tanzilo is a senior editor and writer for OnMilwaukee.com who writes about Milwaukee’s history and architecture. Bobby Tanzilo writes a column at OnMilwaukee called Urban Spelunking where he gets to explore historic buildings in Milwaukee and learn about their history.

This column inspired us to make UWM Urban Spelunking, so we were thrilled when Bobby agreed to let us pick his brain. In this interview, we talked about how Urban Spelunking began, some of his favorite places he’s explored,...

American Science and Surplus (AS&S) is a local novelty store that has been in business for nearly nine decades. However, rising operational costs, increased pressure from online retail giants, and soaring shipping rates have led the retailer to seek help from its customers.