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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Language learning is often stereotyped as memorizing vocabulary and completing grammar worksheets. But at UW-La Crosse language learning is designed to be far more immersive.   Students in the Department of Global Cultures and Languages practice real conversations with partners across the globe, travel abroad with faculty mentors, work with local communities, and even teach younger students […]

Nearly a quarter million dollars in federal funding will be managed by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to create a technologically advanced and sustainable Emergency Operations Center for the region. U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin secured $225,000 as part of Department of Homeland Security annual funding legislation that was passed into law recently. “Wisconsin families need to […]

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire undergraduate elementary teacher preparation program has earned an “A” grade from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) for its preparation of future teachers to teach elementary students to read. The June 9 report from NCTQ spotlights UW-Eau Claire for excellence in meeting the standards set by literacy experts for coverage of the most […]

For most people, parking is something they barely think about—until there’s nowhere to park.  For Hilary Pattermann, making those logistics work has become both a career and a passion. As parking manager for Park Appleton, the City of Appleton’s Parking Utility Division, the 2013 UW-Oshkosh finance graduate oversees three parking ramps, a surface lot, enforcement operations, permits, […]

A former University of Wisconsin-River Falls two-sport athlete who has been an engaged and generous supporter of the university for more than four decades has established the largest individual-funded program endowment in UWRF history. Paul Dykstra, who was a four-year letter winner in golf and hockey and a key member of the Falcons’ 1983 NAIA […]

When Iris Xie gives presentations on her latest research, she invites her audience to close their eyes and listen. The listeners hear a rapid-fire robotic voice rattle through a string of words: “Library of Congress, visited link…” and so on. The audio narration demonstrates a screen reader – in this case, reading a landing page […]