Campus Stories
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UW-Milwaukee alum & teacher of the year stresses value of language
June 24, 2021
When Susan Richardson’s students take a test and come across the word perpendicular, they’re not fazed, even though they’ve learned the concept in German as “senkrecht auf einander.” “We have kids who never learned math in English, and they’ve never heard the word perpendicular in class, yet when they take standardized tests they score as […]
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UW-Whitewater grad students boost the morale, academics of school children
June 23, 2021
Affirmation comes in many forms. For Remi Larson, a graduate student in school psychology at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, it came when the fourth grader she was working with called out to his teacher, “Come here! Come here!” to show off the plus marks and a graph that told the story of his success. Larson watched the scene […]
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UW-Green Bay nursing faculty train with new manikins that will offer nursing students realistic patient healthcare scenarios
June 22, 2021
Nursing instructors in UW-Green Bay’s College of Health, Education and Social Welfare, trained recently on the new high-tech patient simulators (or manikins) inside the Aurora BayCare Nursing Skills Center on the Green Bay Campus. Working with a trainer from the Laerdal company, faculty including Christine Vandenhouten, Susan Hopkinson, Sharon Gajeski, Nicole Gouin, Myunghee Jun and […]
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UWM engineering alumna builds a business in sustainable stormwater management
June 21, 2021
Wisconsin is blessed with an abundance of water. We have so much water, we often end up with too much in the wrong places at the wrong time. This water picks up undesirable elements and flows over a multitude of contaminated surfaces. A UWM alumna and local engineering guru noticed the lack of proper stormwater […]
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Mission to Mars: UW-La Crosse alum to talk June 23 about working with Mars rover
June 18, 2021
How to watch Andrea Connell will discuss her work on the Mars Perseverance rover at 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, 2021, during the UWL Alumni Associations’ What’s New Wednesdays series. The program is free. Register. Mission to Mars A UW-La Crosse alum is helping NASA uncover the mysteries of Mars. Andrea Connell, ’08, is part […]
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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 […]