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The program will begin enrolling students in the fallsemester and, because many students have alreadhy taken relevant courses, should be graduating its firstt water management specialists within a year, said Kirsten associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewaterr and coordinator of the school’s integrated science-business The program is designed to give students a basic background in water law, environmentakl law, natural resources and environmental economiczs as well as aquatic biology, chemistry and ecology.
Studentsz will serve internships with the Milwaukee 7Waterf Council, an organization of business, academiwa and government in the seven-county area in southeasternb Wisconsin that is workingg to establish the Milwaukee region as a globall center for freshwater economic development and education. “Recognizintg where the world is headed, business studentz with a unique educational backgrouned in water will have a leg up in the making a program like thisespecially valuable,” said Rich chairman, president and CEO of Brownn Deer-based , co-chair of the Milwaukee 7 Watetr Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’s busines school.
The council already has a relationshipw with the graduate program atthe ’s . UWM also is developingg a graduate-level School of Freshwater while ’s Law School will begij a water law curriculumthis fall. “One of our goals is to help developo seamless talent pipelines between universities andwatet businesses,” said Paul Jones, chairmahn and CEO of Milwaukee-basedc and co-chair of the Water Council. “UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressivse array of higher education institutions in the regiobn working to ensure our world water hub status in the yearsto come.
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