Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents to present Regents Business Partnership Award to Northwestern Mutual  

MILWAUKEE_ The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will honor Northwestern Mutual with the Regents Business Partnership Award on Thursday, June 5, at the UWM Student Union. The award recognizes Northwestern Mutual’s visionary, collaborative leadership and longstanding commitment to UWM and its students.

The event will take place during the regents meeting and will begin at approximately 3:30 p.m. Members of the media are invited to attend.

The award will be presented by Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents President Amy Bogost to Northwestern Mutual Chairman, President and CEO Tim Gerend. The presentation will be attended by UWM and other Universities of Wisconsin leaders.

Northwestern Mutual’s support for UWM began in 1976. The company is one of UWM’s most generous donors, contributing more than $16 million to various parts of the university, including the Lubar College of Business, Peck School of the Arts and the Roberto Hernández Center, among others.

In 2018, the company partnered with UWM and Marquette University to launch the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute. NMDSI advances academic data science and technology learning while propelling innovation for Northwestern Mutual in key areas, including AI, data bias and ethics, behavioral economics, financial literacy, and health and wealth inequities. Specifically, research projects within NMDSI use data science to address challenging societal issues that have a local and national impact.

About UWM
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has an ambitious mission as both a top-tier research university and an access institution, striving to ensure that students have equitable opportunities to earn a college degree. UWM educates a diverse student body of more than 23,000 students from 88 countries. About 39% of its undergraduates are first-generation college students. Its unique and top-rated programs include Wisconsin’s only accredited schools of architecture and public health, the only North American school dedicated solely to freshwater sciences and a film program ranked among the top 50 in the world. It has the largest and top-rated online education program in Wisconsin. UW-Milwaukee partners with leading companies to conduct joint research, promote entrepreneurship, provide student internships and serve as an economic engine for southeastern Wisconsin. The Princeton Review named UW-Milwaukee a 2024 “Best Midwestern” university based on overall academic excellence and student reviews.

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