Campus Stories

March 31, 2023

University collaboration is part of club’s grant to engage children through hands-on learning Middle school students from the Menomonie’s Boys & Girls Club will learn about cool technology and eating healthy thanks to a new collaborative grant with University of Wisconsin-Stout. To help engage children in Menomonie, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Greater Chippewa […]

March 30, 2023

With a passion for helping people, Annabelle Howat knows the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s health care administration program — with its “a head for business and a heart for caring” slogan — is perfect for her. “I want to help people but in more of a business manner,” says Howat of Aurora, Illinois. “It’s the […]

March 29, 2023

Research in the Rotunda includes food science major explaining work on consumer and commercial test kits for E.coli and coliforms A research spotlight shone on nine UW-Stout students on Wednesday, March 8, at the state Capitol, including one whose efforts could help make water safer to drink and food safer to eat. Dozens of UW […]

March 28, 2023

National audience hears about UWRF through television series Season seven of a popular streaming television series will feature all that makes the University of Wisconsin-River Falls a special institution in western Wisconsin. Production has concluded for the UWRF episode to be shown on the show “The College Tour,” a television series streamed on Amazon Prime […]

March 27, 2023

The finest wheelchair basketball athletes from around the nation traveled to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on March 16-18 for the National Wheelchair Basketball Association men’s intercollegiate championships. Eleven universities participated, including UW-Whitewater: University of Alabama, University of Arizona, Auburn University, City University of New York, Eastern Washington University, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois, […]

March 24, 2023

One University of Wisconsin-Platteville student spent her summer learning about bats and researching whether the species of bat Nycticeius humeralis, commonly referred to as the evening bat—which has historically stayed south of Wisconsin—may now be found in the Platteville area. Kirsten Magedanz’s research, titled “A New Horizon for the Evening Bat?” will be showcased at the […]

March 23, 2023

For years, Chiamaka Daniella Obinna just wanted to fit in. Then, she discovered what she really wanted: to be taken seriously. The journey between these two goals took center stage while Obinna was at UW-Stevens Point. Now the senior majoring in sociology is president of the Black Student Union, co-president of the UWSP chapter of […]

March 22, 2023

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is one of 121 colleges and universities recognized for their commitment to increasing nonpartisan democratic engagement in 2022. The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) announced that the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has been awarded a Highly Established Action Plan Seal. This seal is awarded to campuses that have worked to increase […]

March 20, 2023

Nine from UW-River Falls will join others to present their work at state Capitol March 8 March 2, 2023 – When Yihong Deng decided to get involved with a high-level research project to develop a biodegradable film used in packaging, she feared she might be getting in over her head when she agreed to participate in […]

March 17, 2023

Often, children don’t get too excited about green vegetables. But Gianni Vaccaro found that the students she worked with at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee at Siefert School got really excited about salad. The youngsters often ate three meals a day at the club, said Vaccaro, who was then a film major […]