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This summer, 24 high school students from across Wisconsin came together at UW- La Crosse for a five-day residential freshwater science camp. They deepened their understanding of freshwater ecosystems and made connections between environmental health and human health. The annual My River Adventures Camp is supported by the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin and open to […]

Physical therapy is about more than restoring movement. It is about restoring possibilities.   Possibilities like taking a first step on a new prosthetic leg, returning to the basketball court after a serious injury, or regaining balance after a Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis.   For nearly 50 years, UW-La Crosse’s Physical Therapy program has prepared graduates to help […]

Sadie Hickey is spending her summer trekking through Wisconsin’s wetlands and forests—through poison sumac, towering sedges and other rugged terrain. The College of Science and Health Graduate Research Fellow is in search of an elusive native wildflower: the pink lady’s slipper orchid. It’s a long way from the sunny, dry climate of her native California. But Hickey […]

Every day this summer, Dylan McCathie feeds his yeast.  The UWL junior is not baking bread. He is growing proteins in the lab to better understand gut health and inflammation.  McCathie is studying alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme that plays an important role in the human digestive system. His research explores why this enzyme in humans […]

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 […]

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 […]

It had been a rough day. They were burned out. They needed someone to listen.  At Logan High School, freshmen knew Ms. Brunkow’s classroom was a place where they could exhale.  As a student teacher in physical education and health, Jada Brunkow spoke candidly about her own past struggles with anxiety, depression and an eating […]

Not many students get the chance to travel to class by airboat, but a group of UWL students are among the few who can say they have.  Students in Professor Laurie Harmon’s Environmental Interpretation course got that once-in-a-lifetime experience through a Community Engaged Learning (CEL) partnership with the Upper Mississippi River Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America.  The class is […]

While about 20% of Americans live in rural areas, only about 9% of the nation’s physicians practice in those regions, according to the National Rural Health Association.  At UW-La Crosse, programs and partnerships through Graduate & Extended Learning (GEL) are helping address rural healthcare challenges like these. From promoting scholarship opportunities that create workforce pathways in rural communities, […]

It started, as many good ideas do, with a fresh perspective.  In the mid-1990s, a new generation of faculty arrived at UW–La Crosse. They were energetic, innovative and not especially interested in teaching the way it had always been done — a lecture hall, a piece of chalk and rows of students watching.   They […]