Friday, November 4, 2011

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

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The program will begin enrolling students in the fallsemesterd and, because many students have alreadt taken relevant courses, should be graduatinyg its first water management specialists within a year, said Kirstenn Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinatotr of the school’s integrated science-business major. The programj is designed to give students a basic backgrounxd inwater law, environmental law, naturao resources and environmental economics as well as aquatic chemistry and ecology.
Students will servw internships with the Milwaukee 7 Water an organizationof business, academia and government in the seven-countgy area in southeastern Wisconsin that is workingv to establish the Milwaukew region as a global center for freshwate research, economic development and education. “Recognizingy where the world is headed, businessz students with a unique educationall background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like this especially saidRich Meeusen, chairman, president and CEO of Brown Deer-baseed , co-chair of the Milwaukee 7 Water Council and an alumnuz of UW-Whitewater’s business school.
The council already has a relationships with the graduatse program atthe ’s . UWM also is developing a graduate-levelo School of Freshwater Sciences, whilse ’s Law School will beginj a water law curriculumthis fall. “Oner of our goals is to help develop seamless talenf pipelines between universities and water saidPaul Jones, chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-base d and co-chair of the Water Council.
“UW-Whitewater’sz one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressiver array of higher education institutions in the region working to ensure our world watere hub status in the yearsto

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