UW-La Crosse

May 14, 2025

Over the past four years, UW-La Crosse’s Win-Win program has helped 126 former students turn unfinished college business into a proud accomplishment. The annual outreach initiative reconnects with students who were close to completing their degrees but left before finishing — giving them a clear, supported path to graduation. The results speak for themselves: Since […]

April 18, 2025

Step by step, rep by rep, students in the occupational therapy master’s program at UW-La Crosse are serving the community and gaining valuable hands-on experience. During the spring semester, students in Kim Servais’ Community Mental Health Promotion course have been working with employees at ORC Industries in La Crosse, offering them personalized training exercises designed to promote wellness in their lives […]

April 7, 2025

The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries from healthcare to banking, offering new opportunities to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate research. However, as AI’s influence grows, so too do the ethical dilemmas it presents for businesses, governments and society at large. To help students navigate these challenges, UW-La Crosse is launching […]

March 17, 2025

An initiative at UWL has redefined campus dining while saving 100,000 containers from the landfill — and counting.  The OZZI reusable container program at UWL was introduced in 2020, initially funded through a $40,000 grant from UWL’s Green Fund, a student-led organization, and a subsequent $25,000 Green Fund grant.  The program provides students, faculty and staff with durable, […]

March 11, 2025

The University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium, managed by UW-Eau Claire, has been ranked among the top 20 online MBA programs in the nation for more than a decade, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Online MBA Programs rankings. The UW MBA Consortium, consisting of UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, and UW Oshkosh, is the […]

March 6, 2025

Student teaching is often the most transformative experience in an education major’s college career — putting lessons taught in the classroom to work in a real-life setting, while having an experienced educator as a mentor.  The collaboration between the UW-La Crosse and the Notre Dame School of Milwaukee has become a model for meaningful professional development, […]

February 21, 2025

J.F. Brennan, a fourth-generation, family-owned marine construction firm based in La Crosse, specializes in environmental remediation, dam construction, commercial diving, harbor management and submarine cable services. It is also a top employer of UW-La Crosse students.  Students in Colin Belby’s Geospatial Field Methods course (GEO 410) recently gained hands-on experience in hydrographic surveying through a unique […]

January 30, 2025

Rarely does opening an email spark genuine excitement.  But Alissa St. Louis remembers how it felt receiving that message four years ago, telling her she had been selected as a recipient of the Eric & Kristin Jungbluth Scholarship in the College of Business Administration.  “It felt surreal that someone who hardly knew me believed I was […]

January 6, 2025

With determination and a strong support network, Verena Hayes is proving that no dream is out of reach.   This December, Hayes will graduate with dual certification in elementary/middle education and special education. Her journey as a nontraditional student, full-time mom, student teacher, and active member of campus organizations has been marked by her passion for the […]

December 23, 2024

A new program in UWL’s Mathematics & Statistics Department is helping to mold the next generation of math educators. During a curriculum redesign in 2020-21, several instructors came together to brainstorm a better way to prepare students interested in teaching middle and high school math after college. The result was the Math Education Teaching Assistant Program, which allows aspiring educators to gain experience co-leading a […]