Thursday, July 14, 2011

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

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The program will begin enrolling students in the fallsemester and, because many students have already taken relevantr courses, should be graduating its first watetr management specialists within a year, said Kirsten Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinatoe of the school’s integrated science-business major. The progra is designed to give students a basicv background inwater law, environmental law, naturaol resources and environmental economics as well as aquaticv biology, chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internshipd with the Milwaukee 7 Water an organizationof business, academia and governmenty in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsin that is workint to establish the Milwaukee region as a globalo center for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizin g where the world is headed, business students with a uniqud educational background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like this especially saidRich Meeusen, chairman, president and CEO of Brownm Deer-based , co-chair of the Milwaukee 7 Waterr Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’e business school.
The council already has a relationshipsd with the graduate program atthe ’s . UWM also is developintg a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences, whiles ’s Law School will begin a watetr law curriculumthis fall. “One of our goals is to help develop seamless talent pipelinesd between universities andwater businesses,” said Paul chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chair of the Wate r Council. “UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressivew array of higher education institutions in the region working to ensure our world water hub statuss in the yearsto come.

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