Campus Stories
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UW-Stout professors, students are wading in to lead water testing projects
August 26, 2022
State grants support efforts to improve water quality, help train university and high school students Gilbert Creek in Dunn County slips through marshland and oak savanna between chest-high grasses and flowering plants. It can be hard to find and reach during the glory of midsummer. Yet, one section of the slender creek — one of […]
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UW-Whitewater lands $9.1 million grant to help transform state’s behavior health system
August 25, 2022
Since its inception five years ago, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Center for Inclusive Transition, Education and Employment (CITEE), a department within the Division of Student Affairs, has been working to help people from all walks of life as they explore education and career opportunities. A new, sizable grant will help in furthering that mission. Governor Tony Evers […]
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UW-Eau Claire gardening program helps community members build speech and language skills
August 24, 2022
After COVID-19 shut down the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s in-person speech clinic a couple years ago, communication sciences and disorders faculty were eager to find a safe way to meet the needs of their student clinicians and the community members they serve.Thinking creatively, they began a gardening project, bringing faculty, students and community groups together […]
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UW-Madison: New injectable gel offers promise for tough-to-treat brain tumors
August 23, 2022
Like the hardiest weed, glioblastoma almost always springs back — usually within months after a patient’s initial brain tumor is surgically removed. That is why survival rates for this cancer are just 25 percent at one year and plummet to 5 percent by the five-year mark. One of the challenges of treating this disease is […]
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Building skills and stories: UW-La Crosse digital storytelling project amplifies diverse voices
August 22, 2022
An award-winning logroller who started at 6 years old. A school district employee supporting coffee bean farmers in his native Guatemala. These are the types of stories featured in “We live in La Crosse: Stories of belonging” — a digital storytelling project led by UW-La Crosse Professor of Educational Studies Heather Linville. “As someone who has […]
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New effort aims to make UWM a premier destination for experiential learning
August 19, 2022
Academics plus hands-on experience make an unbeatable combination in the job market. That’s why UWM is expanding opportunities for students to incorporate experiential learning into their university education. The new focus is an outgrowth of the university’s 2030 plan. One key part of that plan is to make the university more student-centric while being responsive to local […]
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Blugold alumni help patients find their voice through speech-language pathology
August 18, 2022
Three Blugolds are helping to give a voice to individuals with speech and language difficulties through their work at Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire graduate Katie Beck is the team lead for the seven-member speech pathology department at the hospital, while Megan Viergutz is a speech-language pathologist. A third Blugold — Terah Homolka […]
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UW-Stevens Point students, professor help create translation guide for refugee families
August 17, 2022
Communication between Ukrainian refugees, their host families and agencies in European countries such as the Netherlands was helped by an unlikely source – the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Two graduate students in speech-language pathology and a professor helped create a “Refugee Dictionary.” It is a compilation of 124 […]
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Recent UW-Platteville grads set to make an impact in growing field of plant breeding and biotechnology
August 16, 2022
Garrett Larsen had a passion for plant biotechnology even before he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Thanks to the Wisconsin Youth Apprenticeship Program through BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute and Promega, he had his first real exposure to research before college, which validated his decision to pursue it professionally. Larsen said that UW-Platteville’s Soil and Crop […]
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National Science Foundation-funded research project at UW-River Falls to study pinene impact on atmosphere
August 15, 2022
Three University of Wisconsin-River Falls students are honing their research skills this summer as part of a National Science Foundation grant to study the effect of pinenes, molecules released by conifer trees and other vegetation into the atmosphere. The $459,686 three-year grant was received by chemistry and biotechnology Professor Stacey Stoffregen, in collaboration with Macalester […]