Campus Stories
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UW-Platteville designated as official OSHA training center
June 17, 2021
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville was recently designated as an official Mid-America OSHA Education Center training site, making it one of the only universities with a construction management program to be designated as such. Hosted through the Department of Industrial Studies’ Construction Management and Construction Safety Management programs, this designation will allow industry partners to send employees to UW-Platteville to be certified […]
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All the buzz: Honey bees taking residence at UW Oshkosh
June 16, 2021
Colonies of honey bees are thriving behind the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, thanks to a push by student Mariah Parkin to add the valued pollinators to the campus’ sustainability efforts. “I was walking along the path behind the Student Recreation and Wellness building when it struck me that campus would be a great place for […]
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Listening to war: UW-La Crosse helped local veterans’ stories to be featured in statewide digital collection
June 15, 2021
On this Memorial Day, Murphy Library and the Oral History Program at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse are proud to share Listening to War: Wisconsin’s Wartime Oral Histories. The collection includes interviews with Wisconsin residents about their frontline and home front experiences during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War. […]
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UW-Milwaukee undergrad’s interest in research leads to opportunity at Harvard
June 14, 2021
Growing up in South Carolina, Seresa McDowell developed an interest in science that led to her starting a pre-med major in college. While she decided she didn’t like the hospital part of the work, she did really like working as a chemistry lab assistant. Eventually, after earning a chemical technology degree from a community college […]
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UW-Parkside undergrad wins Wisconsin Big Idea Tournament
June 10, 2021
Gabrielle Richardson, a UW-Parkside pre-med undergraduate majoring in Spanish and Criminal Justice, is the winner of the Wisconsin Big Idea Tournament. The tournament was sponsored by UW System and the Wisconsin Economic Development Council (WEDC) and part of the 2021 WiSys SPARK Symposium Virtual Series – which honors faculty, staff and student research, innovation, and […]
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UW-Platteville alumni, faculty, and student research project pays tribute to Vietnam veterans
June 10, 2021
Telling the stories of soldiers killed in war started as a small, personal project for Mac Kolar, a 1969 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. About five years ago, the retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel began researching and writing about family members and residents of his hometown of Fennimore, Wisconsin. The efforts led him […]
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UW-Green Bay Manitowoc faculty and students bring ‘Cool Chemistry’ show to the masses with a video version
June 10, 2021
For years, faculty members at UW-Green Bay’s Manitowoc and Sheboygan campuses (formerly UW-Manitowoc and UW-Sheboygan) have been putting the “cool” in chemistry with Cool Chemistry shows each year to get kids (and their parents) excited about science. The shows have been wildly popular since Prof. Kate Bichler first initiated them in 2003 at UW-Manitowoc. Later, […]
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UW-Stevens Point graduate finds passion, purpose in art
June 9, 2021
It has been a long journey to becoming an artist for Karen Drewry – one that took her to three institutions of higher education, through a military career, across several states and countries, and finally, on a path to finding art as a way to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and share her life experiences […]
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Recent UW-Green Bay Health and Wellness master’s graduate sees experience as a path to progress
June 8, 2021
What does fitness have to do with freight? Spring 2021 Master of Science in Health and Wellness Management (MSHWM) graduate Sarah McKenna Rogers has the answer. For a leadership capstone project through the UW-Green Bay program, she found a partner company (Paper Transport, Inc.) that wanted to improve the health of its truck-driving population. Rogers examined their […]
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UW-Eau Claire students work together to capture stories about life during COVID-19 for Spanish-speaking populations
June 7, 2021
A team of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire faculty and undergraduate and graduate students who are studying public history, Latin American and Latinx studies, Spanish and nursing are working together to capture stories about what life has been like during COVID-19 for western Wisconsin’s Spanish-speaking populations. Documenting and preserving their experiences through oral histories will help […]