Campus Stories

June 5, 2024

The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve have received nearly $350,000 to create a plan for the restoration and future stewardship of 10.9 acres of land regained by the Band at the western end of Lake Superior’s Gibiskising Minis (land bridge, Wisconsin Point), an extensive sand bar across the […]

June 4, 2024

Fourteen capstone movie trailers screened at School of Art and Design Senior Show in May  Traveling 1,200 miles from Menomonie to Anaconda, Mont., nine UW-Stout students recently hiked through snow-dusted mountain meadows, wooded gulches and streams to film a Western short. Loosely inspired by true events, the video production seniors’ capstone project “Ghosts of Gold Creek” is […]

June 3, 2024

Introducing yourself and learning how to order food in a foreign language are some of the basics of French language education. But Assistant Professor of French Dany Jacob wants students to finish his classes with much more than this. Jacob and Anna Keefe, Associate Professor of French, develop projects that will link students with career […]

May 31, 2024

It was a day of some serious thinking as more than 1,000 middle and high school students from 57 Wisconsin schools competed in the sixth annual UW Oshkosh Mathematical Problem-Solving Contest.  The students came from as far as Fountain City, Wisconsin, about 3.5 hours away on the western border of the state, to participate in a […]

May 30, 2024

Many pancreatic tumors are like malignant fortresses, surrounded by a dense matrix of collagen and other tissue that shields them from immune cells and immunotherapies that have been effective in treating other cancers. Employing bacteria to infiltrate that cancerous fortification and deliver these drugs could aid treatment for pancreatic cancer, according to newly published findings […]

May 29, 2024

Alejandro Solis recognized for commitment to solving public problems Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges and universities working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has named the student civic leaders from 38 states, Washington, D.C., and Mexico who will make up the 2024-2025 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows. Alejandro Solis, a student […]

May 28, 2024

An internship at the North Central Conservancy Trust (NCCT) in Stevens Point has given University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point junior Morgan Goff a variety of opportunities to learn about non-profit work. One of her special projects is updating service maps for the organization’s website, using what she has learned in the classroom as a minor in geographic information […]

May 24, 2024

Alexa has big dreams. Once she completes her Master’s of Sports, Exercise and Performance Psychology program at UW-Green Bay, her next step is working in the NCAA. Then, in professional sports. She discovered the field of sports psychology, and as a former UW-Green Bay student-athlete she knows the pressure and the feelings that student-athletes experience. With […]

May 23, 2024

Celebratory smiles lit up the faces of 1,037 graduates as they crossed the stage to receive a higher education degree on May 4 from Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University, UW-Stout. Along with their diplomas, they departed the three commencement ceremonies at Johnson Fieldhouse with inspirational advice from three alumni speakers, who have become corporate and community leaders, […]

May 22, 2024

The Kohler Trust for Clean Water has given the UWM Foundation $1.3 million toward construction of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences’ state-of-the-art Research Vessel Maggi Sue. This gift brings the university within $3.5 million of its goal of $20 million needed to begin the construction process.   “For decades, the Kohler name has […]