ALT A group of high school students and UWM educator smile for a photo aboard the research vessel Neeskay.

ALT A high school student collects a lake sample aboard UWM's research vessel.

ALT A UWM School of Freshwater Sciences educator helps a high school student collect a lake sample aboard the research vessel.

ALT A high school student helps collect a water sample from UWM's research vessel Neeskay.

ALT UWM grad Brennan Dow helps lead Milwaukee-area river restoration, coordinating agencies and funding to remove decades-old pollution.

ALT Jena Choi, a UWM freshwater sciences major, works alongside faculty mentor Laodong Guo to analyze the chemical properties of wastewater that collects in oil fields.

ALT Harvey Bootsma examines a tank of tropical fish from Africa. The associate dean of UWM's School of Freshwater Sciences first began studying lake ecosystems as director of Lake Malawi National Park in Africa in the early 1990s.

ALT UWM Business student Theodore Adam is sitting at a desk and writing.

ALT UWM Engineering student Adam Kovacs is using a machine.

ALT UWM Education student Sara Dharani is teaching her class.

ALT UWM Arts student Ariel Marks is singing on a dimly lit stage.

ALT Two UWM students sit outside on campus, conversing and holding a laptop.

ALT UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena filled with graduates and their supporters at a UWM commencement ceremony.

ALT A UWM student studying freshwater sciences observes a water sample in a test tube, alongside her undergraduate research mentor.