Campus Stories
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Merrill mom earns degree “virtually” from UW Colleges
November 5, 2012
UW Colleges Online enrolls students from all 72 Wisconsin counties and nearly all 50 U.S. states. The program is seeing consistent enrollment growth, including a 15% enrollment increase for the summer 2012 semester. This increase comes on the heels of a 16% increase for the spring 2012 semester.
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New farm-to-school project aims to make it easier for public schools to serve Wisconsin vegetables
November 5, 2012
A lot of parents want their kids’ schools to serve more fresh and local food for lunch, and schools would like to oblige, but that’s no simple task. It’s enough of a scramble to be ready to serve hundreds of hungry kids when the lunch bell rings without having to stop to take a lot […]
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Class aims to birth software companies at UW-Madison
November 5, 2012
Paul Barford, a UW-Madison professor of computer science, has a proposition, and he’s got five minutes to make it. He’s consciously mimicking the “product pitch” that entrepreneurs make before venture capitalists, except his audience is undergraduates in a class on starting a software company. Time is tight, so Barford lunges ahead. “Google is earning $40 […]
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Sustainable management degree sees strong growth
November 5, 2012
Janna Rasmussen of Fort Atkinson, WI, has a confession. At age 47, she didn’t go back to college to launch a new career, or even to fulfill a desire to earn her degree. She went back to college because of a steak dinner bet with her son. Janna was a locomotive engineer when her son, […]
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UW-Whitewater grads saving lives through simulation
November 5, 2012
UW-Whitewater alumni Mark Johanneck and Melissa Gerke work at UW Health Clinical Simulation Program at UW-Madison, WI. They credit their UW-Whitewater education with helping them get where they are today.
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UW-Oshkosh students partner with Plexus Corp.
November 3, 2012
“It is the application of the skills that were learned in the classroom that really is the benefit of the class as a whole. Getting out there and applying all the skills that we have been hearing in the class room, gives the students the confidence and justification that can only build on their success in the future.”
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Biofuels patent issued to UW-Stevens Point researchers
November 2, 2012
“This gives us an economically viable way to use grass, trees or wood waste to make renewable fuels and chemicals. It also gives us a method to commercialize some of the work we’ve done at the university.”
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The Confluence Project: A bold public-private partnership
November 2, 2012
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is part of a public-private partnership project that, as the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram opined following its announcement, “if realized will be a game-changer that will transform downtown Eau Claire forever.” The Confluence Project includes construction of a new arts center to be shared by the community and UW-Eau Claire, a […]
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Innovation abounds at UW College of Engineering
November 2, 2012
The UW-Madison College of Engineering is among the nation’s top colleges of engineering.
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Innovative UWM caregiver support system going commercial
November 2, 2012
The TCARE System has been used by a number of state agencies and other organizations for several years. TCARE Navigator will bring this system to a broader audience by promoting it to private insurers, accountable care organizations, self-insured employers and U.S. government agencies.