Campus Stories

May 5, 2021

A group of University of Wisconsin-Platteville students are gaining a valuable experience in the health care field, while making an impact in local communities’ response against the COVID-19 pandemic. Travis Clary, a senior biology major from Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, is one of four students interning with the Grant County or Lafayette County health departments […]

May 4, 2021

Cold milk has long been offered alongside a lunch or snack in elementary schools. Over the years, the vessel for that milk has remained the same – a traditional paper carton. Since those milk cartons require refrigerated storage and are far from beloved by students, both schools and the dairy industry have identified the need […]

May 3, 2021

The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh pre-nursing program requires students to complete volunteer hours as part of the application into the College of Nursing. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the usual volunteer opportunities were unavailable, causing students to get creative in order to meet the program requirements safely. Like many other pre-nursing students, Kaitlyn […]

April 30, 2021

Thomas “TC” Hamilton has had the kind of college experience that many students dream about. A senior psychology major at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, he’s studied abroad, he’s been a Warhawk Ambassador, he’s received a college scholarship, he’s held an on-campus job related to his major, and he’s participated in the kinds of off-campus internships and employment […]

April 29, 2021

Students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire can engage in more high-performance, data-driven research thanks to a new public-private collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise that dramatically increases the university’s supercomputing processing power. Contributions totaling more than $700,000 from HPE, the National Science Foundation and UW-Eau Claire are enabling the university to purchase a […]

April 28, 2021

As vaccine eligibility opens across Wisconsin and the nation, people finally have hope for a return to normalcy. Still, the road to herd immunity requires people to sign up and get their shots. To help eliminate misconceptions surrounding vaccinations, UW-La Crosse infectious disease expert Peter Wilker addresses some common questions and concerns about getting vaccinated. Wilker, an […]

April 27, 2021

Between 35,000 and 40,000 years ago, Lake Michigan’s geography looked drastically different. Much of its present-day shoreline was made up of marshes and bogs. Student researchers are studying fossils deposited during that time to learn more about the area’s ecosystems. “It’s like stepping back in time,” Mikayla Walker, a junior majoring in geology, said of […]

April 26, 2021

As Trevor Wavrunek, a senior engineering physics major, prepares for graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville this May, he credits his experience as an undergraduate researcher with helping him with his next academic goal. “I’m planning to go to grad school and earn a Ph.D. in material science engineering,” he said. “The skills I have learned […]

April 23, 2021

Earth Week activities April 16-22 include campus clean-up, hike and plastics discussion University of Wisconsin-Stout’s shredded office paper is finding new life at Cascades in Eau Claire as tissue paper. When the Dunn County Solid Waste and Recycling closed at the end of last year, UW-Stout no longer had an avenue to recycle shredded office […]

April 22, 2021

While studying abroad in Singapore as a University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineering undergraduate student in 2013, Max Bock-Aronson experienced heightened levels of air pollution firsthand. He also happened to be taking an engineering course on air pollution, where he was learning, among other things, about the mechanics of filtration. “I was learning that the masks that people […]