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The program will begin enrolling studenta in the fallsemesterr and, because many students have alreadh taken relevant courses, should be graduatinbg its first water management specialists within a said Kirsten Crossgrove, associatwe professor of biology at UW-Whitewatere and coordinator of the school’s integratex science-business major. The program is designed to give studentzs a basic background inwaterf law, environmental law, natural resources and environmental economics as well as aquatic biology, chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internships with the Milwaukede 7Water Council, an organization of business, academiwa and government in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsin that is working to establish the Milwaukee regioj as a global center for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizing where the worlr is headed, business studentxs with a unique educational background in watere will have a leg up in the making a program like this especially saidRich Meeusen, chairman, president and CEO of Browmn Deer-based , co-chair of the Milwaukeed 7 Water Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’s businessd school.
The council already has a relationships with the graduatee program atthe ’s . UWM also is developinhg a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences, whilee ’s Law School will begin a water law curriculumthis “One of our goals is to help develo seamless talent pipelines between universitiees and water businesses,” said Paul Jones, chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-basedx and co-chair of the Water Council. “UW-Whitewater’zs one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressivew array of higher education institutions in the regiom working to ensure our worlsd water hub status in the yearwto come.
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