Alverno College News

Sherry Seston has been promoted to associate professor of Biology at Alverno College.

Adekola Adedapo of Alverno College's Cultural Education Center, puts the Kente cloth around the neck of friend and Alverno graduate Michelle Smith during that schools "Bestowing of the Kente" ceremony held inside Alverno's Wehr Auditorium over the weekend.

A nurse helped Mai Kaw Xiong from her wheelchair in a rehab kitchen at Froedtert Medical Center.

The offering is a two-day session running all day Monday and Tuesday. In those two days, the students will be given the tools that allow them to "be happy." "It is much simpler than you might think," Lewis said.

Summer is the perfect time for trying something new - and Alverno College's community education program, Telesis, offers non-credit enrichment classes for both women and men.

The Bestowing of the Kente has been revived at Alverno College and will take place May 19 at 4 p.m. in the college's Wehr Auditorium immediately following the Alverno undergraduate graduation ceremony.

Optimist Theatre - founded as Milwaukee Children's Theatre in 1993 - launched its Shakespeare in the Park effort in 2010, as its "gift to Greater Milwaukee." The company prepares to take on a notorious title in its latest incarnation of Shakespeare in the Park do we dare to say the play's name? Jim Pickering will play Duncan and Tom Reed will play ... (more)

Patricia Schroeder, RN, MSN, MBA, FAAN, and Dean of the Alverno College School of Nursing, has been honored as one of the Milwaukee Business Journal's 2012 "Women of Influence." She was recognized in the "Mentor" category for enriching the lives and careers of others by sharing the benefits of her experience and knowledge.