Thursday, August 16, 2012

UW-Whitewater, Milwaukee 7 Water Council to jointly train students - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The program will begin enrollinvg students in the fallsemester and, because many studentsd have already taken relevangt courses, should be graduating its firsgt water management specialists within a year, said Kirstenb Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinatofr of the school’s integrated science-business The program is designed to give studentas a basic background in water law, environmental law, naturap resources and environmental economics as well as aquatic biology, chemistryg and ecology.
Students will serves internships with the Milwaukee 7Water Council, an organization of academia and government in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsin that is working to establishg the Milwaukee region as a global center for freshwatet research, economic development and education. “Recogniziny where the world is business students with a unique educationall background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like thisespecially valuable,” said Rich chairman, president and CEO of Brown Deer-based , co-chaif of the Milwaukee 7 Water Council and an alumnuz of UW-Whitewater’s business The council already has a relationshipsx with the graduate program at the ’s .
UWM also is developingt a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences, whilwe ’s Law School will begin a water law curriculumnthis fall. “One of our goalas is to help develop seamless talenf pipelines between universities andwater businesses,” said Paul chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chair of the Watef Council. “UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressivd array of higher education institutions in the regiomn working to ensure our worl water hub status in the yearsato come.

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