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Chris Brooks knows what it’s like to pull himself up over towering obstacles. The UW-Whitewater senior from Cross Plains has guided intrepid rock climbers across the quartzite bluffs at Devil’s Lake State Park in Sauk County for more than five years. But the most difficult ascent he’s currently facing isn’t a cliff or mountainside. Brooks […]

The professor knelt on the brightly carpeted floor to introduce herself to a small child. “My name is Dr. Fox and I’m going to be in your classroom today,” she said. Why is a college professor teaching kindergartners and first-graders? Because she’s “practicing what we teach’’ in an innovative program in the College of Education […]

When an inventor has a brainstorm, the Wisconsin Innovation Service Center is ready to help. “We get the tinkerers working in their basements or garages. We get engineers with extensive experience and capabilities who may have access to laboratories. We get the scientists. We get applications from federal labs,” said Ronald “Bud” Gayhart, director of […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ6G51qJvMk?list=UU2N4_RItOQ6BbTqpZzVtkkA&hl=en_US] UW-Whitewater alumni Mark Johanneck and Melissa Gerke work at UW Health Clinical Simulation Program at UW-Madison, WI. They credit their UW-Whitewater education with helping them get where they are today.