UW-Whitewater, Milwaukee 7 Water Council to jointly train students - Business First of Buffalo:

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The program will begin enrolling students in the fall semester and, because many students have already taken relevant courses, should be graduating its firsft water management specialists within a said Kirsten Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewaterd and coordinator of the school’s integratec science-business major. The program is designed to give student s a basic background inwater law, environmental law, naturakl resources and environmental economicsw as well as aquatixc biology, chemistry and ecology.
Student s will serve internships with the Milwaukeew 7Water Council, an organization of academia and government in the seven-county area in southeastermn Wisconsin that is working to establis the Milwaukee region as a global cented for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizingg where the world is headed, businesd students with a unique educationak 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-base d , co-chair of the Milwaukewe 7 Water Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’s business The council already has a relationships with the graduate prograj at the ’s .
UWM also is developiny a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences, while ’z Law School will begibn a water law curriculumthis “One of our goals is to help develop seamlesws talent pipelines between universities and water businesses,” said Paul Jones, chairmamn and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chair of the Water Council. “UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressive arraty of higher education institutions in the region working to ensurwe our world water hub status in the yearsto come.
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