UW Colleges

September 20, 2018

Eyes sparkle and small hands clap in delight after moving the ball across a board to successfully make a series of lights turn on. There is pride in comprehension and completion for this young child as she learns through play at the Children’s Museum of Fond du Lac. Her learning is both personal and broadly significant: […]

June 30, 2016

In its third trip in as many years, the University of Wisconsin-Barron County’s (UW-BC) Future Engineers Rube Goldberg team walked away with the Division III National Title and the Best Presentation Award at the 2016 Rube Goldberg Contest on April 9 in Columbus, Ohio. The team finished fourth in last year’s contest and earned a […]

October 23, 2013

Student volunteers built more than a house on Saturday, October 19. They also developed camaraderie, community connections, and an appreciation for service. A crew of 15 students from two University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County groups – the men’s basketball team and the Rotaract Club – spent the day on a Habitat for Humanity construction site in […]

August 13, 2013

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a trio of new and collaborative engineering technology degrees July 12 designed to make a high-demand field more easily accessible to students in the New North region while also addressing manufacturers’ demands for new infusions of well-prepared engineering graduates. Students entering the new Leadership in Engineering […]

November 28, 2012

Students will demonstrate competency based on variety of learning experiences MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin System announced today the first degree programs that will be offered under its innovative UW Flexible Option starting in Fall 2013. The UW System is expected to be the first public university system in the nation to offer […]

November 6, 2012

Home and community resonate deeply for Ger Xiong. She relishes her roots in Fond du Lac – perhaps because her connections have blossomed so fully after transplantation. You wouldn’t know it when meeting the vivacious and articulate Xiong, but she wasn’t born in this country and English is not her first language. She was born […]

November 6, 2012

At the bottom of a reservoir at an abandoned Army base, local researchers just may have found a fountain of youth. Living in a cement holding pond at Badger Army Ammunition Plant are adult tiger salamanders that still look like juveniles – they age, but don’t undergo metamorphosis. A University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County research project […]

November 5, 2012

Osama Abdl Haleem describes himself as “a farmer from Boaz,” a Richland County village just 10 miles from one of the UW Colleges campuses. He is one of nine children. Because of the size of his family, he said, many of them probably could not have gone to college without an affordable entry point like […]