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Group creates Make-A-Wish film segment for Minnesota teen Ten University of Wisconsin-Stout students, as part of their field experiences last summer, are helping make a Minnesota teen’s wish come true. The students helped animate a portion of a “Star Wars” fan film “The Legend of Lex Zander” starring Alexander Knutson, 14, and his family. Knutson, […]

Fifty years ago, the Children’s Learning Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee opened its doors to serve students who needed child care. Since then, thousands of children have gotten an educational foundation as well as care through the center, which serves children from six weeks old to 12 years. The center kicked off its 50th anniversary […]

Paclitaxel, or Taxol, is an old standby drug in the oncologist’s tool belt. Yet only about half of breast cancer patients treated with the drug see their tumors shrink or disappear, and doctors and researchers have no way of knowing which patients will benefit. But that may soon change. Published Sept. 8 in Science Translational […]

A University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire-led project that captures and preserves COVID-19 stories and artifacts from the campus and surrounding communities is being honored by the Wisconsin Historical Society for its innovation and value to the region. The “Chippewa Valley COVID-19 Archiving Project,” a collaboration among the UW-Eau Claire public history program, McIntyre Library and the […]

Sean Mobley came to UWL to study engineering — his first step toward a career designing roller coasters for Walt Disney World.    But there was one problem: Mobley hated calculus.  His struggles put him on a personal roller coaster, which bottomed out when he was declared academically ineligible. He then shot skyward when he found a new major […]

A Freshwater Collaborative for Wisconsin grant helped students from six UW campuses train at one of three locations of  UW Oshkosh’s Environmental Research and Innovation Center When Amanda Stickney learned about chemistry in sixth grade, her love of math and science clicked.   “In high school, I went to a semester boarding school that focused on environmental science and stewardship,” says the […]

Rachel Comande spent last year at UWM caught in a two-step dance between attending classes in her suite in Sandburg Residence Hall and her bedroom back home. Gone were the crowded lecture halls and bustling student union she remembered from her first fall semester. As the COVID-19 pandemic pushed social events and classes online, Comande […]

“The stars must be aligned because this is all coming together.” Michael Czerwinski remembers that line well. It was written to him in an email by Tammy Ladwig, then the director of the Alternative Careers in Teaching (ACT) program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, back in January. It came as part of an exchange […]

Building on the strength of a popular cybersecurity minor within the College of Letters and Sciences, the new undergraduate cybersecurity program will offer both a major and a minor as well as three emphases, including a cyber-operations emphasis that is designed to offer a seamless transfer pathway for two-year technical college graduates. Provost John Chenoweth, who […]

Sarah Parker is studying what’s happening inside large blood vessels to find better ways to diagnose and treat threatening conditions like atherosclerosis and aneurysms. A UW-Milwaukee (UWM) alumna who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in kinesiology and psychology at UWM, Parker is a researcher at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars Sinai in Los […]