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The program will begin enrolling studentse in the fallsemestefr and, because many students have alreadg taken relevant courses, should be graduatingt its first water management specialists withib a year, said Kirstenb Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinator of the school’s integrated science-business major. The program is designes to give students a basic backgroundx inwater law, environmental law, natural resourcess and environmental economics as well as aquatic chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internships with the Milwaukew 7Water Council, an organization of business, academia and government in the seven-countyy area in southeastern Wisconsin that is workinhg to establish the Milwaukee region as a global centetr for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizing whered the world is headed, business students with a uniqude educational background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like thisespecially valuable,” said Rich chairman, president and CEO of Brown Deer-basec , co-chair of the Milwaukee 7 Waterr Council and an alumnua of UW-Whitewater’s business school.
The council alreadyt has a relationships with the graduate programn atthe ’s . UWM also is developing a graduate-levekl School of Freshwater Sciences, while ’s Law School will begi n a water law curriculumthis fall. “Onw of our goals is to help developo seamless talent pipelines between universitiesd andwater businesses,” said Paul Jones, chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chair of the Water Council.
“UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kindc new track adds to the impressive array of highee education institutions in the region workinyg to ensure our world watee hub status in the yearsto