University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UW–Milwaukee or UWM) is a public urban research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1956 by merging the Wisconsin State College–Milwaukee with the Milwaukee division of the University of Wisconsin Extension.威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校（UW–Milwaukee 或 UWM）是威斯康星州密尔沃基市的公立城市研究型大学，1956 年由密尔沃基州立学院与威斯康星大学推广部密尔沃基分部合并而成。

It is the largest university in the Milwaukee metropolitan area and one of two doctoral-granting universities in the University of Wisconsin System, with about 23,000 students, 15 schools and colleges and more than 190 degree programmes.该校是密尔沃基都会区规模最大的大学，也是威斯康星大学系统中两所可授予博士学位的大学之一，约有 23000 名学生、15 个学院以及 190 多个学位项目。

QS placed UWM in the 1201-1400 band for 2027, Times Higher Education ranked it 1001-1200, U.S. News put it 739th in its 2026-27 global list and the 2026 ARWU placed it in the 901-1000 band.QS 将 UWM 列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，泰晤士高等教育排名为 1001-1200，U.S. News 2026-2027 年度全球榜单列第 739 位，2026 年软科排名位于 901-1000 区间。

History

• UWM's oldest predecessor, the Wisconsin State Normal School, opened in 1885 at 18th and Wells Streets in downtown Milwaukee with 76 students and John Mapel, a former Iowa school superintendent, as its first president.UWM 最早的前身威斯康星州立师范学校于 1885 年在密尔沃基市中心第 18 街与韦尔斯街开学，仅有 76 名学生，首任校长是曾任艾奥瓦州学监的约翰·马佩尔。

• Mapel modelled the curriculum on European normal schools he had observed on a tour before taking the Iowa post, and the school concentrated on elementary-teacher training, music and drawing.马佩尔参照他赴艾奥瓦任职前在欧洲考察的师范学校设计课程，学校以小学教师培养、音乐与绘画为主。

• In 1909 the school moved from downtown to its present lakefront site when Mitchell Hall, a Collegiate Gothic building still known as Old Main, was completed on Hartford Avenue.1909 年，随着仍被称作“老主楼”的学院哥特式建筑米切尔厅在哈特福德大道落成，学校从市中心迁至现址湖畔。

• The normal school was renamed Wisconsin State Teachers College–Milwaukee in 1927, when the state regents refocused it on teacher instruction after a period of expansion into liberal arts.1927 年，州立师范学校改名为密尔沃基威斯康星州立师范学院，州董事会在一段文科扩张之后重新把重心放回师资培养。

• By the 1940s the college had become one of the leading teacher-training institutions in the United States, and its graduates staffed the rapidly growing suburban school districts of Milwaukee County.到 20 世纪 40 年代，该校已成为美国领先的师资培养机构之一，毕业生进入密尔沃基县迅速扩张的郊区学区任教。

• In 1951 the Wisconsin legislature authorised state colleges to offer liberal arts degrees, and the institution became Wisconsin State College–Milwaukee while still being known locally as Milwaukee State.1951 年威斯康星州议会授权州立学院开设文科学位，学校遂改称密尔沃基威斯康星州立学院，当地人仍称其为密尔沃基州立。

• In 1955 the legislature passed a bill to create a large public university in Wisconsin's largest city, and in 1956 the state college merged with the University of Wisconsin Extension's Milwaukee graduate division.1955 年州议会通过法案，决定在威斯康星州最大城市创建一所大型公立大学，1956 年州立学院与威斯康星大学推广部密尔沃基研究生部合并。

• The new university combined the lakefront college campus with the extension building downtown, and its first commencement was held on 16 June 1957.新大学把湖畔学院校园与市中心的推广部大楼合并使用，首届毕业典礼于 1957 年 6 月 16 日举行。

• On 13 June 1958 Socialist mayor Frank P. Zeidler became the first person to receive an honorary doctorate from UWM, a sign of the university's close identification with the city government.1958 年 6 月 13 日，社会党市长弗兰克·蔡德勒成为首位获 UWM 荣誉博士学位的人，显示大学与市政府关系密切。

• In 1964 the state purchased the campus of Milwaukee-Downer College, a private women's college that had merged with Lawrence College, adding the Downer Woods site and the red-brick quadrangle to UWM.1964 年州政府购得密尔沃基-唐纳学院的校园，这所私立女子学院已与劳伦斯学院合并，UWM 由此获得唐纳森林地块与红砖方院。

• Milwaukee-Downer's Holton, Johnston, Merrill and Greene halls were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and they remain among the oldest buildings in use on campus.密尔沃基-唐纳学院的霍尔顿、约翰斯顿、梅里尔与格林四楼于 1974 年列入国家史迹名录，至今仍是校园中在用最古老的建筑之列。

• From 1956 to 1971 UWM belonged to the original University of Wisconsin System, and in 1971 the legislature merged that system with the Wisconsin State Universities to create the present unified system.1956 至 1971 年 UWM 属于原威斯康星大学系统，1971 年州议会将该系统与威斯康星州立大学系统合并，形成如今的统一系统。

• In 1988 the UW System designated eight Centers of Excellence at UWM, and in 1994 the Carnegie Foundation classified it as a Research II university, the forerunner of its current R1 status.1988 年威斯康星大学系统在 UWM 指定八个卓越中心，1994 年卡内基基金会将其列为研究型二级大学，这是其今日 R1 地位的前身。

• In 2005 UWM surpassed UW–Madison in the number of Wisconsin resident students, becoming the system's largest enrolmer of state residents, a position it still holds.2005 年 UWM 在威斯康星州本地学生人数上超过麦迪逊分校，成为系统内招收本州学生最多的大学，这一地位延续至今。

• In 2006 the New England Board of Higher Education ranked UWM ninth among its Saviors of Our Cities, and the public voted it one of the ten Gems of Milwaukee.2006 年新英格兰高等教育委员会把 UWM 列为“城市拯救者”第九名，公众还将其评为密尔沃基十大瑰宝之一。

• The Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health was established in 2008 and the School of Freshwater Sciences in 2009, two units that gave UWM distinctive professional profiles.约瑟夫·齐尔伯公共卫生学院于 2008 年设立，淡水科学学院于 2009 年设立，这两个单位赋予 UWM 独特的专业形象。

• In 2010 the university bought the neighbouring Columbia St. Mary's Hospital complex, a seven-building site that expanded the campus by about 20 percent and now houses the School of Information Studies.2010 年大学购得毗邻的哥伦比亚圣玛丽医院建筑群，这片七栋建筑使校园扩大约两成，现容纳信息研究学院。

• The Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, a 141,000-square-foot building costing $80 million, opened in October 2015 and became the university's main science research address.肯伍德跨学科研究综合体于 2015 年 10 月启用，建筑面积 14.1 万平方英尺、造价 8000 万美元，成为大学主要的科学研究场所。

• The Lubar Entrepreneurship Center and Welcome Center opened in May 2019 in an $8.3 million building south of the Kenwood complex, anchoring the university's innovation district.卢巴尔创业中心与迎新中心于 2019 年 5 月在肯伍德综合体南侧启用，造价 830 万美元，成为大学创新区的核心。

• In June 2025 UWM and Microsoft opened an AI Co-Innovation Lab on campus, the company's first such facility in Wisconsin, to connect students and regional firms with applied artificial-intelligence projects.2025 年 6 月，UWM 与微软在校园开设人工智能联合创新实验室，这是该公司在威斯康星州的首个此类设施，旨在让学生与地区企业参与应用人工智能项目。

Academics

• UWM is organised into 15 schools and colleges, including the College of Letters and Science, the Lubar School of Business, the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Peck School of the Arts.UWM 设有 15 个学院，包括文理学院、卢巴尔商学院、工程与应用科学学院以及佩克艺术学院。

• It offers 191 degree programmes, among them 94 bachelor's, 64 master's and 33 doctoral degrees, and hosts about 70 academic centres, institutes and laboratories.该校开设 191 个学位项目，其中学士 94 个、硕士 64 个、博士 33 个，并设有约 70 个学术中心、研究所与实验室。

• The School of Freshwater Sciences is the only graduate school of freshwater science in the United States and the third in the world, and it works on Lake Michigan, the Great Lakes and international water policy.淡水科学学院是美国唯一、世界第三所淡水科学研究生院，研究密歇根湖、五大湖与国际水政策。

• The Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health was the first dedicated school of public health in Wisconsin to receive CEPH accreditation, and it trains epidemiologists, health-policy analysts and community health workers.约瑟夫·齐尔伯公共卫生学院是威斯康星州第一所获得 CEPH 认证的独立公共卫生学院，培养流行病学家、卫生政策分析师与社区卫生工作者。

• The School of Architecture and Urban Planning is the only architecture school in Wisconsin, and its 1993 building on the west quad is one of the largest architecture facilities built in the United States in recent decades.建筑与城市规划学院是威斯康星州唯一的建筑学院，其 1993 年建于西区的院馆是美国近几十年兴建的最大建筑学院设施之一。

• The College of Nursing and the College of Health Sciences are the largest in Wisconsin, and they run clinical partnerships with Froedtert Hospital, Children's Wisconsin and the Milwaukee VA Medical Center.护理学院与健康科学学院是威斯康星州同类学院中规模最大的，与弗罗德特医院、威斯康星儿童医院及密尔沃基退伍军人医疗中心建立临床合作。

• The Lubar School of Business offers undergraduate, MBA and specialised master's programmes in accounting, finance, supply chain and information management, and it is housed in Lubar Hall, renamed in 2006.卢巴尔商学院开设会计、金融、供应链与信息管理的本科、MBA 与专业硕士项目，院馆卢巴尔厅于 2006 年更名。

• The Peck School of the Arts teaches music, theatre, dance, film and visual art, and it runs performance venues including the Bader Concert Hall and the Mainstage Theater.佩克艺术学院教授音乐、戏剧、舞蹈、电影与视觉艺术，运营巴德音乐厅与主舞台剧院等演出场所。

• The Honors College enrols about 690 students from all majors, offers dedicated advising and study space in the library, and graduates about 60 honours students each year.荣誉学院从各专业招收约 690 名学生，在图书馆提供专门导师与学习空间，每年约有 60 名学生以荣誉学位毕业。

• The College of Engineering and Applied Science grants degrees in civil, mechanical, electrical, computer, biomedical and industrial engineering and works closely with Milwaukee's manufacturing and water-technology firms.工程与应用科学学院授予土木、机械、电气、计算机、生物医学与工业工程学位，并与密尔沃基的制造业与水技术企业密切合作。

• The university is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, and its research expenditure reached $55 million in 2018 across engineering, health, freshwater and social science.该校被列为 R1 博士大学，具有极高研究活动，2018 年研究支出达 5500 万美元，覆盖工程、健康、淡水与社会科学。

• The UWM Research Foundation manages patents, technology transfer and corporate partnerships, while the Research Growth Initiative funds projects with a clear path to external grants.UWM 研究基金会管理专利、技术转移与企业合作，研究增长计划则资助具有明确外部经费前景的项目。

• The Golda Meir Library holds more than 5.2 million catalogued items and includes the American Geographical Society Library, a map and atlas collection of nearly two million items.果尔达·梅厄图书馆藏有 520 多万件编目资料，并包含美国地理学会图书馆，其地图与地图集收藏近 200 万件。

• UWM's student body in 2025 numbered about 23,000, including 19,217 undergraduates and 3,887 postgraduates, with a large share of first-generation and transfer students from Milwaukee.2025 年 UWM 学生约 23000 人，其中本科生 19217 人、研究生 3887 人，很大比例是来自密尔沃基的第一代大学生与转学生。

• OpenAlex records 49,360 works and 5,079,173 citations for the university, the largest citation count among the institutions in this ranking band.OpenAlex 记录该校 49360 篇成果与 5079173 次引用，是本排名区间内引用数最高的机构之一。

• The university operates WUWM, a public radio station serving south-eastern Wisconsin, and its journalism programmes place students in Milwaukee newsrooms and media organisations.大学运营面向威斯康星东南部的公共广播电台 WUWM，其新闻项目把学生送入密尔沃基的新闻编辑室与媒体机构。

• Admission is moderately selective, and about 70 percent of first-year students come from Milwaukee County and the surrounding counties of south-eastern Wisconsin.招生具有中等选择性，约七成新生来自密尔沃基县及威斯康星东南部周边各县。

Campus

• The main campus sits on Milwaukee's upper East Side, five blocks from the Lake Michigan shoreline and less than a ten-minute drive from downtown, in a residential neighbourhood of early twentieth-century houses.主校区位于密尔沃基上东区，距密歇根湖岸五个街区，驱车不到十分钟可达市中心，周边是二十世纪初住宅构成的居住区。

• The campus is divided into central, north, west and northwest quads, and the central quad runs from the Golda Meir Library in the north to the Student Union in the south.校园分为中央、北、西与西北四个区，中央区北起果尔达·梅厄图书馆，南至学生会大楼。

• The Student Union is one of the largest student centres in the United States, with more than 26,000 visitors a day in term time and a 480-space parking structure beneath Ernest Spaights Plaza.学生会大楼是美国最大的学生中心之一，学期内每天访客超过 26000 人次，欧内斯特·斯佩茨广场下方设有 480 个车位的停车楼。

• The Golda Meir Library consists of a 1967 west wing and a 1974 east wing joined by passages, and it was named in 1979 for the Israeli prime minister who graduated from Milwaukee State Normal School in 1917.果尔达·梅厄图书馆由 1967 年西翼与 1974 年东翼组成，两者以通道相连，1979 年以 1917 年毕业于密尔沃基州立师范学校的以色列总理命名。

• The north quad contains Downer Woods, a conservation area, and the four Sandburg towers, which house about 2,700 students and were built in 1970 with the east tower added in 2000.北区有唐纳森林保护区与四栋桑德堡宿舍塔楼，后者容纳约 2700 名学生，三栋建于 1970 年，东塔于 2000 年增建。

• The west quad houses engineering, nursing, architecture and the sciences, and its centrepiece is the 1993 Architecture and Urban Planning Building with exposed ducts and a glass-walled courtyard.西区聚集工程、护理、建筑与理学院系，核心是 1993 年落成的建筑与城市规划馆，暴露的管道与玻璃幕墙庭院成为教学展示。

• The former Columbia St. Mary's Hospital complex, acquired in 2010, added seven buildings and a parking structure to the north-west quad and now houses information studies and child-care facilities.2010 年购得的原哥伦比亚圣玛丽医院建筑群为西北区增添七栋建筑与一座停车楼，现容纳信息研究学院与托儿设施。

• The campus is served by Milwaukee County Transit buses and the university's BOSS shuttle, and its location gives students access to Lakefront State Park, the Milwaukee Art Museum and downtown internships.校园有密尔沃基县公交与学校 BOSS 班车服务，其位置使学生可前往湖滨州立公园、密尔沃基美术馆并在市中心实习。

Reputation

• QS ranked UWM in the 1201-1400 band for 2027, a position that reflects strong regional research output but limited international reputation relative to the university's size.QS 将 UWM 列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，这一位置反映出其研究产出较强，但相对办学规模而言国际声誉有限。

• Times Higher Education placed it in the 1001-1200 band for 2027, its strongest global ranking, while U.S. News put it 739th in the 2026-27 global universities list.泰晤士高等教育将其排在 2027 年 1001-1200 区间，这是其最好的全球排名，U.S. News 则在 2026-2027 年度全球大学榜单列第 739 位。

• The 2026 ARWU placed UWM in the 901-1000 band, and its research strengths in freshwater, health sciences and engineering are reflected in subject-level tables rather than in the overall top 500.2026 年软科把 UWM 列入 901-1000 区间，其淡水、健康科学与工程的研究优势更多体现在学科榜单而非综合前 500 名。

• OpenAlex records 49,360 works and 5,079,173 citations, a citation total that places UWM ahead of several higher-ranked universities in this band and reflects decades of health and engineering research.OpenAlex 记录 49360 篇成果与 5079173 次引用，这一引用总量使 UWM 领先本区间若干排名更高的大学，反映其数十年的健康与工程研究积累。

• The university is one of two R1 institutions in the University of Wisconsin System, alongside UW–Madison, and it carries the system's urban research mission in the state's largest city.该校是威斯康星大学系统中与麦迪逊分校并列的两所 R1 机构之一，在州内最大城市承担系统的城市研究使命。

• Its freshwater science programme is the only graduate school of its kind in the United States, and its public health school was the first dedicated CEPH-accredited school in Wisconsin.其淡水科学项目是美国同类唯一的研究生院，公共卫生学院则是威斯康星州第一所获 CEPH 认证的独立学院。

• UWM's athletics teams, the Panthers, have won 133 Horizon League titles and made 40 NCAA tournament appearances, and the university has claimed the McCafferty Trophy seven times since 2000.UWM 的“黑豹”运动队已获 133 项地平线联盟冠军与 40 次 NCAA 锦标赛参赛资格，自 2000 年以来七次夺得麦卡弗蒂杯。

• Employer recognition is concentrated in Wisconsin, where UWM supplies teachers, nurses, engineers and social workers to Milwaukee's hospitals, school districts and manufacturers.雇主认可度集中于威斯康星州，UWM 为密尔沃基的医院、学区与制造商输送教师、护士、工程师与社会工作者。

• The university does not appear among the top 500 in the major subject rankings, and its reputation rests more on professional accreditation and local impact than on global league-table position.该校未进入主要学科排名前 500，其声誉更多建立在专业认证与地方影响力之上，而非全球排行榜位次。

Student life

• UWM has no formal Latin motto, and its identity is carried by the Panther mascot, the colours of black and gold and the lakefront campus rather than by a ceremonial motto.UWM 没有正式的拉丁文校训，其身份由黑豹吉祥物、黑白金三色与湖畔校园承载，而非礼仪性校训。

• The university has about 300 student organisations, governed by the Student Association under Wisconsin's shared-governance statute, which gives students a formal role in university decisions.大学有约 300 个学生组织，由学生会在威斯康星州共同治理法规下管理，该法规赋予学生在校务决策中的正式角色。

• UWM Post is the independent student newspaper, Media Milwaukee publishes student journalism, and Prowl Radio, founded in 2022, runs an internet station from campus.《UWM Post》是独立学生报纸，Media Milwaukee 发表学生新闻作品，2022 年创办的 Prowl Radio 在校园运营网络电台。

• The Panthers compete in 15 sports in the Horizon League, which UWM joined in 1994, and men's basketball reached the NCAA tournament in 2003, 2005 and 2006, beating Boston College and Oklahoma.“黑豹”在地平线联盟参加 15 个项目，UWM 于 1994 年加入该联盟，男篮于 2003、2005 与 2006 年进入 NCAA 锦标赛，并击败波士顿学院与俄克拉何马大学。

• UWM dropped varsity football after the 1974 season, and the club football team that ran from 2003 to 2026 played Marquette in the Brew City Classic for the Golden Keg trophy.UWM 在 1974 赛季后取消校队橄榄球，2003 至 2026 年的俱乐部橄榄球队与马凯特大学争夺“金桶”奖杯，比赛称“酿酒城经典”。

• The Panther Prowl, an annual race through the campus and Upper Lake Park, raises scholarship funds and is organised by the Alumni Association.黑豹巡跑是穿过校园与上湖公园的年度赛事，由校友会组织并为奖学金筹款。

• Four university-managed residence complexes, Sandburg Halls, RiverView, Cambridge Commons and Kenilworth Square, house students in towers, LEED-certified buildings and a converted Ford factory.四组校管宿舍——桑德堡楼群、河景宿舍、剑桥公共宿舍与肯尼沃斯广场——分别以塔楼、LEED 认证建筑与改造的福特工厂为学生提供住宿。

• Milwaukee's lakefront, the Third Ward, Summerfest and the city's brewery culture give students an urban social life that is closely integrated with the campus's East Side neighbourhood.密尔沃基的湖滨、第三区、夏日音乐节与啤酒文化为学生提供与东区校园紧密相连的城市社交生活。

Notable people

• Golda Meir, the fourth Prime Minister of Israel, graduated from Milwaukee State Normal School in 1917, and the university's main library has borne her name since 1979.以色列第四任总理果尔达·梅厄 1917 年毕业于密尔沃基州立师范学校，大学主图书馆自 1979 年起以她命名。

• Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft since 2014, earned a master's degree in computer science from UWM in 1990 before joining Sun Microsystems and later Microsoft.萨提亚·纳德拉自 2014 年起任微软首席执行官，1990 年在 UWM 获得计算机科学硕士学位，随后进入太阳微系统与微软。

• Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru from 1990 to 2000, studied mathematics at UWM and received a master's degree in 1969 before returning to Peru to teach and enter politics.阿尔韦托·藤森于 1990 至 2000 年任秘鲁总统，曾在 UWM 学习数学并于 1969 年获硕士学位，之后回国任教并步入政坛。

• Alan Kulwicki, a mechanical engineering graduate, won the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup championship and was the first university-trained engineer to win the title.机械工程毕业生艾伦·库尔维茨基赢得 1992 年纳斯卡温斯顿杯冠军，是首位拥有大学工程学位的年度冠军车手。

• Dorothy Fuldheim, who studied at Milwaukee State Teachers College, became one of the first women in the United States to anchor a television news programme, at WEWS in Cleveland.多萝西·富尔海姆曾就读于密尔沃基州立师范学院，后在克利夫兰 WEWS 成为美国最早主持电视新闻节目的女性之一。

• Raquel Rutledge, a journalist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting on fraud in Wisconsin's child-care subsidy system and studied at UWM.《密尔沃基哨兵报》记者拉克尔·拉特利奇因报道威斯康星州儿童保育补贴欺诈获得 2010 年普利策地方报道奖，曾在 UWM 就读。

• Larry N. Vanderhoef, a plant biologist and chancellor of the University of California, Davis from 1994 to 2009, earned his doctorate at UWM and later led one of the largest agricultural research universities.植物生物学家拉里·范德霍夫于 1994 至 2009 年任加州大学戴维斯分校校长，在 UWM 获得博士学位，后来领导美国最大的农业研究型大学之一。

• Jeanne W. Ross, a scholar of enterprise architecture and information systems, graduated from UWM and directed research at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research.企业架构与信息系统学者珍妮·罗斯毕业于 UWM，并主持麻省理工学院信息系统研究中心的研究工作。

• Mike Reinfeldt, a safety for the Houston Oilers and later general manager of the Tennessee Titans, played football at UWM before the university dropped the varsity programme.迈克·赖因费尔特曾任休斯敦油人队安全卫、后任田纳西泰坦队总经理，在大学取消校队前于 UWM 打橄榄球。

• Robert Zuppke coached football at Milwaukee State Normal School before moving to the University of Illinois, where he won four national championships and invented the huddle.罗伯特·祖普克在前往伊利诺伊大学之前于密尔沃基州立师范学校执教橄榄球，后在伊利诺伊四夺全国冠军并发明了战术围圈。

• Frank P. Zeidler, Milwaukee's Socialist mayor from 1948 to 1960, received the university's first honorary doctorate in 1958 and championed public higher education in the city.弗兰克·蔡德勒于 1948 至 1960 年任密尔沃基社会党市长，1958 年获大学首个荣誉博士学位，并推动该市公立高等教育发展。