1. Supporting the whole child: School psychology program aims to fill nationwide shortage

    Photo of UW-Stout graduate students visiting Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School; learning how language, culture directly impact students

    Graduate students visit Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School; learn how language, culture directly impact students The shortage of school staff in Wisconsin extends beyond teachers in the classroom. The shortage of school psychologists, who advocate for students’ behavioral, mental and emotional needs, has a significant impact on schools and students. “When school psychologists are stretched too thin, […]

  2. Varsho becomes first UWM alum to make it to the World Series

    Photo: Daulton Varsho played for three seasons at UWM before being drafted in 2017 by the Arizona Diamondbacks. He played three years for Arizona before being traded to the Toronto Blue Jays before the 2023 season. (Milwaukee Athletics photo)

    For the first time in 32 years, the Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series. And a UWM alum, Daulton Varsho, played an important part in making that happen. Varsho collected two hits Monday in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, including a single to drive in Toronto’s first run in the first inning […]

  3. 30 years of UW-Eau Claire social work interns in South Africa

    Photo of UWEC internships in South Africa

    Many students at UW-Eau Claire cap off their senior year with an internship — paid or unpaid, full time or part time, required or elective. The options vary widely but always deliver unique learning and networking opportunities. Very few internships, however, offer an immersive international experience that fulfills a full-time supervised internship required for certain […]

  4. Consider the zombie: Imaginative scenarios help high school students tackle college-level academics

    Some 140 Milwaukee area high school students got a glimpse of college-level intellectual pursuit last week – with the help of zombies. UW-Milwaukee (UWM) hosted students from six high schools at the annual “UWM Rhetoric & _____ Conference: Practicing Rhetoric in New Contexts.” The half-day event brought together students who are enrolled in UWM English […]

  5. With milk testing and new tools, UW-Madison scientists are helping prevent bird flu outbreaks in Wisconsin and beyond

    Photo: With the help of a robotic liquid handler, UW–Madison researchers at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL) are testing some 5,000 milk samples per month to monitor and prevent H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in the state’s dairy cattle. Photo: Taylor Wolfram / UW–Madison

    On a recent Thursday morning, Becky was hard at work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL). A few test tubes at a time, hundreds of milk samples were carefully poured, measured and prepared for testing. Becky doesn’t wear a typical lab coat or safety glasses. Why? Because Becky is a Biomek […]

  6. UW-Whitewater adds degree program to elevate health professionals

    Photo: Students in Communication 328: Managing Conflict, a class taught by Assistant Professor Courtney Powers that is part of the Health and Leadership Studies curriculum, worked on a team-building classroom exercise on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, using paper, string, tape and lengths of dried spaghetti to devise and build bridges to support weight placed on them. Powers, center, and entrepreneurship major Nazier Jones, right, react as his team's bridge between two desktops sustains a cell phone and deck of cards. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)

    Students in Communication 328: Managing Conflict, a class taught by Assistant Professor Courtney Powers that is part of the Health and Leadership Studies curriculum, worked on a team-building classroom exercise on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, using paper, string, tape and lengths of dried spaghetti to devise and build bridges to support weight placed on them. […]

  7. Bachelor’s degree awarded posthumously, fulfilling dream of UWO student who died last year

    Photo: UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Manohar Singh hands a diploma to Barry Moodie, as his children Emmett and Kate and his late wife’s mother, Mary Altenburg, look on.

    Mary “Christina” Moodie had a simple but powerful goal: to finish her college degree so her children could see the value of higher education. On Aug. 1, in an intimate ceremony inside the Chancellor’s Office at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, her dream was fulfilled. Chancellor Manohar Singh handed Christina’s diploma to her family, which included […]

  8. UW-Milwaukee engineer discovers a way to turn used EV batteries into fertilizer

    Photo of Deyang Qu, professor of mechanical engineering at UWM, holding a lithium iron phosphate battery, one of many needed to power electric vehicles. He has developed a strategy to recycle the retired batteries to create an economic opportunity. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)

    As electric vehicle batteries age out – typically after about 10 years – the world is bracing for a wave of expired lithium-ion batteries with no affordable way to recycle them. The problem is especially pressing with lithium iron phosphate batteries, the kind most commonly used in EVs, E-delivery vans and E-buses. Traditional disposal of […]

  9. UW-Stout women’s golf outpaces field to win conference crown, sets eyes on national tourney

    Photo: The UW-Stout women's golf team celebrates their victory at the WIAC Championship. / Photo by Steve Frommell

    Blue Devils win first WIAC title since 2016, earn NCAA bid The UW-Stout women’s golf team’s victory this month at the conference championship, where they triumphed by a near-record margin, isn’t the culmination of a season: It’s a sign of things to come for a young, focused and talented Blue Devils team. Sophomore Julia Imai and junior Brin Neumann placed […]

  10. UW-Eau Claire, Chippewa Valley Technical College collaborate to remove barriers for transfer students

    Aerial photo of UW-Eau Claire

    Removing barriers and creating new pathways to empower students was the driving force behind six new articulation agreements the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire signed with Chippewa Valley Technical College this fall. Building on the longstanding collaboration between the two institutions, the new articulation agreements will help students more easily transfer credits earned at CVTC to […]