Campus Stories

  1. UW-Green Bay students contribute to lake sturgeon conservation research

    Photo of Zach Nordstrom, part of the Lake Sturgeon conservation research at UW-Green Bay.

    August 23, 2024

    Lake sturgeon first evolved around 200 million years ago, around the same time as the dinosaurs. This unique fish species once numbered more than two million. Fish biologists estimate about 3,000 adult fish exist in the Great Lakes proper today. Wisconsin is an international leader in lake sturgeon conservation. The state’s efforts target sustaining populations that […]

  2. UW-Milwaukee athletes winning in the classroom too

    Photo of UW-Milwaukee tennis player Giorgia Cavestro, who is majoring in IT management and accounting and was honored as one of the top undergraduate students in the Lubar College of Business. She helped the team win the Horizon League’s Raise Your Sights award for 2023-2024, an honor given to the conference’s top athletic teams in academics, based on combined grade point average. (Milwaukee Athletics photo)

    August 23, 2024

    UW-Milwaukee student athletes excel even when they’re not competing. The UWM women’s tennis team recently received the Horizon League’s Raise Your Sights award for 2023-2024, an honor given to the top academic women’s and men’s teams based on combined grade point average for the academic year. The women’s tennis team led the league with a GPA of […]

  3. New camp introduces high school students to freshwater experiences

    Photo of high school students from Wisconsin and Illinois taking freshwater samples.

    August 22, 2024

    The UW Oshkosh Environmental Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) hosted 18 high school students from Wisconsin and Illinois for its inaugural residential “Freshwater High School Experience” on the UW Oshkosh campus. Along with the ERIC staff, professors from Biology, Environmental Studies, Engineering, and Geology ran sessions for the students. The goal was to introduce high school […]

  4. What is Fintech?

    Photo of students working at computers in UW-La Crosse's Kaplan Finance Lab.

    August 21, 2024

    Professor answers common questions about a growing industry Fintech, or Financial Technology, is a growing field that is transforming the banking industry by using computers to provide financial services and solutions. UW-La Crosse Computer Science & Computer Engineering Professor Kenny Hunt answers some common questions about Fintech below. UWL’s Computer Science & Computer Engineering offers graduate […]

  5. UW-Superior named International Services Partner of the Year by the Red Cross

    Photo of UW-Superior receiving Red Cross Award: The University of Wisconsin-Superior was recently named International Services Partner of the Year by the Red Cross. The award recognizes the mutually beneficial partnership of UW-Superior and the Red Cross.

    August 20, 2024

    The University of Wisconsin-Superior was recently named International Services Partner of the Year by the Red Cross. The award recognizes the mutually beneficial partnership of UW-Superior and the Red Cross. “UW-Superior is deeply committed to community engagement and public service, and we were honored to receive this meaningful recognition from the Red Cross,” said Katelyn Baumann, […]

  6. UW-Whitewater Coach Keri Carollo recognized among “Notable Women in Sports”

    Photo of Coach Keri Carollo

    August 19, 2024

    Keri Carollo, a leader in the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater athletic department for more than two decades, is one of 19 women in the state to be named among the 2024 Notable Women in Sports by BizTimes Milwaukee. “I’m so honored to be among the women recognized by the BizTimes,” said Carollo, the head coach of the Warhawk […]

  7. UWM alum honored with ESPN sports humanitarian award

    Photo of UWM alum Brice Christianson (center), honored with an ESPY for his work in making sports more accessible to the Deaf community. Flanking him are two of the first deaf broadcasters in live sports, Jason Altmann (left), COO of P-X-P, and Noah Blankenship. Behind them are (from left) Matt Celli, vice president of NHL Productions, Ray Jacobs, producer of NHL Productions, and Joshua Ayoub, ASL interpreter. (Photo illustration by ESPN Citizenship)

    August 16, 2024

    Brice Christianson, a UW-Milwaukee alumnus, was honored with the Stuart Scott ENSPIRE award as part of the ESPN 2024 Sports Humanitarian Awards. The award were presented July 10 in Hollywood and featured July 11 on ESPN programming as part of the 2024 ESPYs. Christianson earned his B.S. in Education with focus on ASL/English Interpreting. After becoming […]

  8. STEAM camps offer nearly 275 area middle, high school students hands-on preview of education at UW-Stout

    Photo of Menomonie High School student Samantha Anderson draping fabric on a 3D dress form in UW-Stout's Maker's Lab in the STEAM fashion camp

    August 15, 2024

    They discover career paths in microbiology and genetics; develop innovative patterns in fashion design For two weeks in June, 118 area high school students stepped into campus labs at UW-Stout and learned what it’s like to be a student at Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University. In hands-on learning experiences led by faculty, they discovered career paths in science, technology, […]

  9. New scholarships offered at UWSP at Wausau

    Photo of Rocket Industrial’s $25,000 gift to UWSP at Wausau, which will help qualifying students with a $1,000 scholarship towards earning their degree.

    August 14, 2024

    Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Wausau will have additional scholarship opportunities thanks to gifts from a local business and the UW Wausau Campus Foundation. These scholarships, offered in three different increments based on grade point average, will be awarded through a $25,000 gift from Rocket Industrial in Wausau and $100,000 from the […]

  10. Driftless River Initiative: New UWL library initiative aims to expand access and grow collections related to Upper Mississippi River and Driftless Area

    Photo of (from left) David Mindel and Nikki Pegarsch looking at charts from 1932 of locks and dams on Upper Mississippi River. Collections related to the Upper Mississippi River and Driftless Area have been growing organically on the UWL campus since the university's inception.

    August 13, 2024

    New library initiative aims to expand access and grow collections related to Upper Mississippi River and Driftless Area From steamboats to bird journals, river maps to agricultural research, UW-La Crosse has long been a repository for items related to the Upper Mississippi River and the Driftless Area of Wisconsin. Given its geographic location just over […]

Share Your Story

Share how you or someone you know is contributing to the inspiring work at our public university campuses throughout Wisconsin.

Share Your Story