UW-Whitewater

May 9, 2025

After an intensive three-year review process, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Police Department received accreditation from a national program considered the gold standard within the profession. The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, or CALEA, has officially recognized the UW-Whitewater Police Department with its accreditation. It is one of only four departments in Wisconsin to hold the […]

April 10, 2025

A passion for education drives one Wisconsin music teacher to extremes: playing a trumpet while experiencing zero gravity, exploring a Teacher at Sea experience on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship Bell M. Shimada off the coast of northern California, and — yes — traveling to the end of the Earth to participate in […]

March 31, 2025

The Carollo family name is synonymous with women’s basketball — and winning — at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. For more than two decades the family has been deeply associated with a team that has a strong legacy at the university and is a household name in NCAA Division III women’s basketball. Keri Carollo was hired […]

February 28, 2025

One chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater rang in the new year with a surprise. In early January, Steven Girard, an associate professor of chemistry, was announced as one of three recipients of the 2024 Universities of Wisconsin Innovation Grant for his proposal, “’Sea-Change’ Silicides: Superalloy and Biomedical Coatings from Sustainable and Recycled Feedstocks.” It was a […]

February 20, 2025

UW-Whitewater Chancellor Corey King and university mascot Willie Warhawk recently visited eight Whitewater area businesses/organizations, expressing gratitude for their support of the university and the Universities of Wisconsin. These visits — documented on video and being shared on social media this week — demonstrate the mutually beneficial relationships that exist between the university and the […]

February 17, 2025

Foster Boom traces his first memories of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater back to a field trip taken as an eighth-grade student at Mahone Middle School in Kenosha. “I think we extracted strawberry or corn DNA,” Boom said. “UW-Whitewater was always in the back of my mind.” After graduating from Libertyville High School in Illinois, Boom […]

January 24, 2025

At the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Rock County campus, construction is complete on two state-of-the-art spaces where the next generation of students will earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Edgewood College, the result of a collaborative nursing degree program. These graduates will be primed for high-paying jobs — and ready to fulfill a critical regional […]

December 10, 2024

Two students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater embraced the power of shared experiences — and a resulting fast friendship — to make the most out of their time as Warhawks. Alma Diaz-Cosme and Maribel Rodriguez met as students at UW-Whitewater at Rock County in the fall of 2021. They had each made last-minute decisions to enroll at […]

November 13, 2024

Soon after Anneke Lisberg came to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 13 years ago, she began to realize she had a front-row seat to her students every day — along with an opportunity to help make college doable, possible and meaningful for them. Lisberg, an associate professor of biology, was interested in student success beyond her […]

November 6, 2024

Already among the nation’s most successful college student organizations, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s American Marketing Association and Enactus chapters continued to build on their legacies of entrepreneurship and service over the summer in 2024. Five Warhawks traveled to Antigua, Guatemala, from July 20-27 to continue their work with ProChapina, a nonprofit organization that serves to support, educate, uplift, and empower […]