A group of faculty and student researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville are working to contribute solutions to the increasing threat of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. With the help of the UW System Ignite Grant Program and several industry partners, including ABB Inc., UW-Platteville will soon be home to a smart microgrid cybersecurity testbed. Microgrids typically serve […]

When students return to the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh this fall, many will have stories to tell about exciting summer adventures. Only a few, however, will be able to say they were among the first-ever group of American students to take part in an archaeological field school in Slovenia. “This was truly the best trip […]

State grants support efforts to improve water quality, help train university and high school students Gilbert Creek in Dunn County slips through marshland and oak savanna between chest-high grasses and flowering plants. It can be hard to find and reach during the glory of midsummer. Yet, one section of the slender creek — one of […]

Since its inception five years ago, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Center for Inclusive Transition, Education and Employment (CITEE), a department within the Division of Student Affairs, has been working to help people from all walks of life as they explore education and career opportunities. A new, sizable grant will help in furthering that mission. Governor Tony Evers […]

After COVID-19 shut down the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s in-person speech clinic a couple years ago, communication sciences and disorders faculty were eager to find a safe way to meet the needs of their student clinicians and the community members they serve.Thinking creatively, they began a gardening project, bringing faculty, students and community groups together […]

Like the hardiest weed, glioblastoma almost always springs back — usually within months after a patient’s initial brain tumor is surgically removed. That is why survival rates for this cancer are just 25 percent at one year and plummet to 5 percent by the five-year mark. One of the challenges of treating this disease is […]

An award-winning logroller who started at 6 years old. A school district employee supporting coffee bean farmers in his native Guatemala. These are the types of stories featured in “We live in La Crosse: Stories of belonging” — a digital storytelling project led by UW-La Crosse Professor of Educational Studies Heather Linville. “As someone who has […]

Academics plus hands-on experience make an unbeatable combination in the job market. That’s why UWM is expanding opportunities for students to incorporate experiential learning into their university education. The new focus is an outgrowth of the university’s 2030 plan. One key part of that plan is to make the university more student-centric while being responsive to local […]

Three Blugolds are helping to give a voice to individuals with speech and language difficulties through their work at Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire graduate Katie Beck is the team lead for the seven-member speech pathology department at the hospital, while Megan Viergutz is a speech-language pathologist. A third Blugold — Terah Homolka […]

Communication between Ukrainian refugees, their host families and agencies in European countries such as the Netherlands was helped by an unlikely source – the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Two graduate students in speech-language pathology and a professor helped create a “Refugee Dictionary.” It is a compilation of 124 […]