UW-Whitewater

  1. UW-Whitewater Paralympian John Boie honored by President Biden at White House

    Photo of President Joe Biden, standing, shaking John Boie’s hand at a special ceremony at the Whitewater. (Photo courtesy of the White House)

    May 24, 2022

    Flanked by his fellow athletes from the U.S. Paralympic and Olympic teams, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater wheelchair basketball player and gold medalist John Boie was recognized by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris […]

  2. UW-Whitewater at Rock County announces the Studer Family Scholarship

    Photo of UW-Whitewater students

    April 22, 2022

    Thanks to a generous donation from the Studer Family Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Rock County campus is offering 10 full-ride scholarships to Rock County high school students who will be graduating in […]

  3. Best in the nation: UW-Whitewater student org that focuses on mental health wins Chapter of the Year

    Photo of message on heart: "Don't be too hard on yourself"

    March 25, 2022

    When Kelsey Pacetti discusses the importance of mental health — and fighting stigma around a topic that can be uncomfortable to talk about openly — she’s speaking from personal experience. […]

  4. UW-Whitewater student wins national writer’s prize with “dazzling and deeply felt” essay

    Photo of UW-Whitewater student Hannah Agustin

    March 17, 2022

    A destructive typhoon. Her mother’s delicious breakfast. Spanish, Japanese and American colonists. The Second Coming. Disney movies. Hannah Agustin reflects on all these topics and more in her essay, “Thirteen […]

  5. Making self-driving cars smarter: UW-Whitewater professor wins $200,000 NSF grant to enhance driving technology

    Photo of Haijian Sun, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, who has received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build advanced communication systems for self-driving vehicles.

    March 11, 2022

    Haijian Sun, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, has received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build advanced communication systems for self-driving vehicles. “In […]

  6. UW-Whitewater to offer an online bachelor’s in supply chain management

    Photo of person studying; UW-Whitewater to offer an online bachelor’s in supply chain management

    February 24, 2022

    The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College of Business and Economics will deliver a 100 percent online Bachelor of Business Administration in supply chain management beginning this fall. “The complexity of supply chains has become dinner […]

  7. Freshwater science: Mentorship and insecticide insight

    Photo of Austin Draper, whose love of fish led him to a career in water sciences.

    January 19, 2022

    Collaborative grant provided opportunity for faculty and students at two UW schools to study potential emerging water contaminants. Austin Draper never considered a career in freshwater science. Although he was […]

  8. UW-Whitewater accounting graduate transitions directly to the full-time MBA, a growing trend

    Photo of Nayeli Govantes Alcantar ’21, who earned a BBA in accounting and business analytics and enrolled in the MBA at UW-Whitewater.

    January 10, 2022

    In recent years, the average age of students enrolled in the Master of Business Administration program at UW-Whitewater has slowly drifted downward. While the pandemic influenced this trend in 2020, it began […]

  9. The future looks fresh: New collaboration will boost Wisconsin water research, policy, and economy

    Photo of faculty from five UW campuses who met in July at the UW-Waukesha field station for a daylong retreat to plan Freshwater Science 101, a new course to be offered to students at UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, UW-La Crosse, UW Oshkosh, and UW-Parkside. Pictured are Eric Strauss, Robert Stelzer, Jake VanderZanden, Mike Carvan, Greg Kleinheinz, Jessica Orlofske, and Marlin, who gave them a tour of the station. Taking the photo was Tracy Boyer. Photo courtesy of Heidi Jeter.

    November 30, 2021

    On a sunny afternoon in late September, a group of undergraduate students boarded Limnos II, UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology (CFL) pontoon boat, for a field trip on Lake Mendota with CFL […]

  10. UW-Whitewater: Hands-on research with an impact

    Screenshot of UW-Whitewater video showing hands-on research

    November 18, 2021

    Dale Splinter, professor of geology, geography and environmental science at UW-Whitewater, works with his students to test tributaries suspected of bringing high levels of phosphorus and other pollutants into Geneva […]

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