It’s 2139, and Milwaukee has just been struck by a tsunami.

Appleton’s Fox River Academy may focus on the environment, conservation and sustainability, but to call the students and teachers tree-huggers would be missing the point.

There’s only so much that can be taught in an architecture classroom.

Students Katie Carr and Michael Store are putting their educations to the test.

In her job at Pricewater-houseCoopers LLP, Brenda VanHimbergen sometimes builds spreadsheets, but, until recently, she’d never built anything much larger.

A lack of technical know-how is preventing people from tapping into a great natural resource buried just below the earth’s surface.

Jordan Bower earned $10 an hour this summer. But it wasn’t at a job; it was while attending class.

Bart Kraus graduated in May from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a certificate in urban planning and a bachelor’s degree in architecture.
He wanted to start an internship right away, but that didn’t happen.
“I told myself if I could find an internship program, maybe not even directly architectural — (it) could have been planning or landscape [...]

Erik Hancock got more than he bargained for while studying at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Hancock expected to learn plenty about design during his master’s of architecture program.
But through the Merrill Park neighborhood project, he ultimately obtained invaluable experience gaining approvals, working with communities and revising plans to meet the requirements of others.
“It was a very [...]

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials discovered they had a lot to learn from engineering and science students.
The students, as part of their participation in an Environmental Protection Agency competition, designed and installed a rainwater retrieval system for the roof of the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research building. The system pipes rainwater into 500-gallon cisterns and distributes [...]