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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Manure management must be part of policy discussion, Raff says A University of Wisconsin-Stout economics assistant professor in the social science department is part of a groundbreaking research study on concentrated animal feeding operations in Wisconsin. Zach Raff co-authored “CAFOs and Surface Water Quality: Evidence from Wisconsin” that looks at 23 years of large animal […]

When Alyssa Ehlke decided she wanted to become a nurse in 2014, she had no idea of the surprises being a student in 2020 would hold. “I think that there’s always a little bit of anxiety when you know there is something that is such an unknown (like the pandemic)… it’s frightening because we’re so […]

In the 11 years that Dr. Lisa Quinn-Lee has been teaching an Introduction to Social Welfare class at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, she has yet to find a textbook that meets her needs. The course attracts large numbers of students, including freshman through fifth-year seniors, few of whom are social work majors, says Quinn-Lee, […]

Growing up in Platteville, Tyler Vargo knows firsthand the beauty and diversity of Southwest Wisconsin, but like many rural areas, the region is significantly underrepresented on digital mapping platforms, like Google Maps. Through a project sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s Undergraduate Research and Scholarly and Creative Activity program, Vargo is setting out to change this one […]

The Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship is a prestigious award given to only about 20% of applicants. Emma Jonas, a senior from UW-La Crosse, was one of those students this year. Jonas came to UWL from her hometown in Pulaski, Wisconsin, and was excited to see how campus would help spark her interest in biology. Ultimately, […]

Emma Kraco was always interested in biological sciences in elementary and high school. “I loved looking for bugs, looking at tiny things up close. It just made sense to get interested in water, especially fresh water. It’s absolutely teeming with life all the time.” In her teens, her interests led to a job in aquaculture, […]