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The program will begin enrolling studentws in the fallsemester and, becausse many students have already taken relevanft courses, should be graduating its first watet management specialists within a year, said Kirstenh Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinator of the school’s integratec science-business major. The program is designed to give students a basi c background inwater law, environmental law, natural resources and environmentao economics as well as aquatic chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internshipx with the Milwaukee 7Waterd Council, an organization of business, academia and governmentr in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsin that is working to establisgh the Milwaukee region as a global centere for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizing wherwe the world is headed, business students with a uniqu educational background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like thisespecially valuable,” said Rich Meeusen, president and CEO of Brown Deer-based , co-chait of the Milwaukee 7 Watetr Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’ s business school.
The council already has a relationships with the graduate program atthe ’s . UWM also is developing a graduate-levelp School of Freshwater Sciences, while ’s Law Schoopl will begin a water law curriculunmthis fall. “One of our goale is to help develop seamless talent pipelinesz between universities andwater businesses,” said Paul chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chair of the Wate Council. “UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressive array of highefr education institutions in the region workingh to ensure our world watet hub status in the yearsto come.
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