Archives - 2026

Three UW-Green Bay students are gaining recognition for turning bold ideas into real-world impact after earning top honors at the at-large WiSys Quick Pitch competition on May 12. Eight students from across Wisconsin competed overall, presenting research-driven innovations in front of judges for a chance at cash prizes and advancement to the WiSys SPARK Symposium this July in Eau […]

Samantha Brown arrived at UW-La Crosse as a proud first-generation student, but without a clear roadmap for what college life would look like.   That sense of uncertainty transformed into confidence when she found her place at the Recreational Eagle Center (REC).  Through her role in Rec Sports, Brown not only found a job, but also a community that helped her […]

A cybersecurity training platform developed by University of Wisconsin-Stout Polytechnic faculty has won a high-stakes, Pentagon-sponsored competition and will now serve as a blueprint for scalable cybersecurity learning nationwide.  The Department of War’s Aligned Skills Curriculum and Experiential Network Design (ASCEND) Challenge received innovative entries from a pool of more than 60 applicants, all of […]

Associate professor Ashley Lemke has long been familiar with the Great Lakes region. She’s spent many summers visiting Lake Huron — but not to hike along the shore or relax on its beaches. Lemke was exploring prehistoric hunter-gatherer sites long submerged in the depths of the Great Lakes. Underwater archaeology — especially with a focus on […]

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to create new content in imitation of previous human-generated content. But what happens as more and more of that online content used to train AI models has already been generated by AI? That was the question posed in a recent mathematics modeling competition and three University of Wisconsin-River […]

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville announced that its Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Investigation has earned accreditation from the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC), a body of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). The accreditation covers all three emphases of the Forensic Investigation major: Crime Scene Investigation, Medicolegal Death Investigation and Laboratory. UW-Platteville is among […]

The Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology (WIST) at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point held a grand opening of its new, state-of-the-art Compostability Testing Laboratory on May 20. The new facility marks a significant milestone in WIST’s mission to help businesses and organizations meet their goals in ways that make more sustainable use of natural resources. The lab enables researchers […]

A group of University of Wisconsin-Superior students from the Transportation and Logistics Management Club, along with their adviser, Daniel Rust, professor and chair of the School of Business and Economics, recently traveled to central and eastern Wisconsin for a series of industry tours and transportation museum visits. The first stop on the three-day trip was the Menards […]

Before becoming Appleton’s first female police chief, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh alumna Polly (Reinke) Olson,’95, spent time assisting pathologists in a hospital morgue, helping with autopsies and responding to death scenes as a deputy coroner.  It was not exactly the career path she imagined while studying biology at UW-Oshkosh in the early 1990s.  “I’d like to say that life intervened a little […]

Marquise Mays traces his roots as a filmmaker to his childhood in Milwaukee. He regularly went to the movie theater with his cousins — and often spent the entire day there. When the lights dimmed, Mays found himself transported to new worlds that unfolded on screen. “There was a lack of things for Black kids […]