Thursday, September 13, 2012

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

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The program will begin enrolling students in the fallsemestedr and, because many students have already taken relevantr courses, should be graduating its firsrt water management specialists within a year, said Kirstemn Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinatot of the school’s integrated science-business major. The program is designes to give students a basic background inwatetr law, environmental law, natural resources and environmental economicxs as well as aquatic chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internships with the Milwaukede 7Water Council, an organization of business, academia and governmentt in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsin that is workinfg to establish the Milwaukee region as a globakl center for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizinh where the world is headed, businesz students with a unique educational backgroundc in water will have a leg up inthe future, makingv a program like this especially valuable,” said Rich chairman, president and CEO of Brownb Deer-based , co-chair of the Milwaukes 7 Water Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’sz business school.
The council already has a relationshipss with the graduate program atthe ’se . UWM also is developing a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences, while ’s Law School will begij a water law curriculumthis “One of our goal is to help develop seamleszs talent pipelines between universities and water said Paul Jones, chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chait of the Water Council.
“UW-Whitewater’zs one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressive array of highere education institutions in the region working to ensure our world watert hub status in the yearsto

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