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UW-Milwaukee develops smart buoy to monitor area beaches

A new buoy built by UW-Milwaukee researchers will improve water-quality warnings and help Milwaukee’s health department better monitor conditions at city beaches. Faculty members Todd Miller and Matthew Smith, along with post-doctoral fellow Lucas Beversdorf, constructed the buoy at the School of Freshwater Sciences to gather minute-by-minute information about conditions around Bradford Beach and transmit [...]

UW Sustainable Management Student Helps “Green” the Green Bay Packers

The online Sustainable Management master’s program is a collaborative effort of five UW System institutions: UW-Green Bay, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Parkside, UW-Stout, and UW-Superior. Launched in 2013, the master’s degree program is designed for working adults with real-world experience and offers flexibility to students who balance family, a job, and other commitments. A veteran, his family, and a [...]

UW-Madison spinoff releases latest educational game – aimed at teaching fractions

A Madison maker of educational games has just published Diffission, a visual game to teach fractions to middle schoolers without the pain of the traditional “skill and drill.” The software will generate up to one billion shapes, and users will have to build fractions from them, says Filament Games CEO Dan White. “It’s very tactile, and imparts [...]

UW-Stout PreCollege programs help young students plan their futures

Menomonie, Wis. — As Tamara Brantmeier looked out at approximately 40 faces, she saw limitless possibilities. The young people, middle school and high school students, were at University of Wisconsin-Stout for a summer PreCollege program, a chance to see what college life is like and to start thinking about if, how and where they could [...]

UW-Eau Claire: Increasing K-12 student literacy is goal of collaborative program

Two regional school districts will work to boost students’ literacy skills, thanks to a recent event at UW-Eau Claire. The university recently hosted 100 teachers, principals, and other education professionals from the Augusta and Cornell school districts for a workshop led by education studies faculty members Janine Fisk and Deb Pattee, and music education faculty [...]

UW-Oshkosh nursing grads complete scholarly projects, put learning into practice

Fourteen University of Wisconsin Oshkosh graduate students recently put their nursing knowledge to work, translating best evidence into practice as part of a Doctor of Nursing Practice scholarly project. Bonnie Nickasch, assistant director of advanced practice nursing at UW Oshkosh, said the scholarly projects give students the opportunity to synthesize the knowledge they have learned [...]

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UW-Milwaukee develops smart buoy to monitor area beaches

UW Sustainable Management Student Helps “Green” the Green Bay Packers

UW-Madison spinoff releases latest educational game – aimed at teaching fractions

UW-Stout PreCollege programs help young students plan their futures

UW-Eau Claire: Increasing K-12 student literacy is goal of collaborative program

UW-Oshkosh nursing grads complete scholarly projects, put learning into practice

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