Campus Stories

March 27, 2021

UW-Parkside History Department is offering a seven-week course beginning March 29 titled “Researching Kenosha’s Black History,” taught by Professor Edward Schmitt. “For us to begin learning, healing, and making progress as a community after the painful events of the last year, it is crucial to understand the essential contributions and challenges of Black Kenoshans throughout […]

March 26, 2021

If it takes beer to get people interested in history, that’s fine. That’s the view of John Harry, a history graduate student who has focused his research on beer and Black capitalism. In his early 30s, Harry decided he wanted to take his life in a different direction. He had an undergraduate degree in communications […]

March 25, 2021

Chloe McChesney loves to use color and avoid straight lines, creating soft and visually effective animation. McChesney’s animation has created quite a following. The senior majoring in entertainment design-animation, which has been renamed animation and digital media, recently created an animated video for the song “Good to Be Alive” by CG5. The video already has […]

March 24, 2021

After enduring heartbreaking news that another area veteran had taken their life, a University of Wisconsin Oshkosh team has formed to try and prevent more tragedies. The family of armed forces veterans connected to UW Oshkosh has been hit particularly hard in recent months. Timber Smith, Veterans Resource Center (VRC) coordinator and a veteran of […]

March 23, 2021

When Brittney Maehl, a veteran of the Navy, learned of the opportunity to help her dog Chester – and other cancer patients – through a clinical trial funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, she was beyond excited. “I thought I was counting down hours left with my lovely boy, but after our initial biopsy and exam […]

March 22, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic began sweeping across the world last spring, closing schools, shuttering businesses and overwhelming hospitals, Sara Patoka struggled to see how she might use her knowledge and skills to help those whose lives were being devastated by the public health crisis. A newly created economics class at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire […]

March 21, 2021

A Native American pageant that brought thousands of tourists to Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands a century ago is, again, taking the stage – this time for UW-La Crosse students. The students in last fall’s Historical Archaeology class took part in an ongoing collaborative investigation of the heritage and history of the Red Cliff Band of Lake […]

March 20, 2021

Often reserved for upperclass students at many universities, research has been a part of Kaylee Finseth’s college experience since nearly the time she first stepped foot on campus at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Now a junior, the Verona, Wisconsin native has been engaged in several research projects involving plant-microbe symbioses for the past three years. […]

March 19, 2021

Wisconsin is 700 miles from an ocean coastline, but the state is home to numerous high school students with award-winning knowledge of oceanography. That’s in part due to the efforts of the Lake Sturgeon Bowl, an academic quiz competition that was hosted by the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences March 6 and 7. In 2001, the Great […]

March 18, 2021

Renamed, refocused BFA program, ranked nationally and No. 1 in Wisconsin, follows consumer trends In the entertainment world, animation and animated characters are hot, from blockbuster big screen films to popular streaming programs to network television shows, video games and beyond. Reflecting the genre’s growth, University of Wisconsin-Stout is going mainstream with animation as well. […]