Campus Stories

  1. 30 years of UW-Eau Claire social work interns in South Africa

    Photo of UWEC internships in South Africa

    October 29, 2025

    Many students at UW-Eau Claire cap off their senior year with an internship — paid or unpaid, full time or part time, required or elective. The options vary widely but always deliver unique learning and networking opportunities. Very few internships, however, offer an immersive international experience that fulfills a full-time supervised internship required for certain […]

  2. Consider the zombie: Imaginative scenarios help high school students tackle college-level academics

    October 28, 2025

    Some 140 Milwaukee area high school students got a glimpse of college-level intellectual pursuit last week – with the help of zombies. UW-Milwaukee (UWM) hosted students from six high schools at the annual “UWM Rhetoric & _____ Conference: Practicing Rhetoric in New Contexts.” The half-day event brought together students who are enrolled in UWM English […]

  3. With milk testing and new tools, UW-Madison scientists are helping prevent bird flu outbreaks in Wisconsin and beyond

    Photo: With the help of a robotic liquid handler, UW–Madison researchers at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL) are testing some 5,000 milk samples per month to monitor and prevent H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in the state’s dairy cattle. Photo: Taylor Wolfram / UW–Madison

    October 27, 2025

    On a recent Thursday morning, Becky was hard at work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL). A few test tubes at a time, hundreds of milk samples were carefully poured, measured and prepared for testing. Becky doesn’t wear a typical lab coat or safety glasses. Why? Because Becky is a Biomek […]

  4. UW-Whitewater adds degree program to elevate health professionals

    Photo: Students in Communication 328: Managing Conflict, a class taught by Assistant Professor Courtney Powers that is part of the Health and Leadership Studies curriculum, worked on a team-building classroom exercise on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, using paper, string, tape and lengths of dried spaghetti to devise and build bridges to support weight placed on them. Powers, center, and entrepreneurship major Nazier Jones, right, react as his team's bridge between two desktops sustains a cell phone and deck of cards. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)

    October 24, 2025

    Students in Communication 328: Managing Conflict, a class taught by Assistant Professor Courtney Powers that is part of the Health and Leadership Studies curriculum, worked on a team-building classroom exercise on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, using paper, string, tape and lengths of dried spaghetti to devise and build bridges to support weight placed on them. […]

  5. Bachelor’s degree awarded posthumously, fulfilling dream of UWO student who died last year

    Photo: UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Manohar Singh hands a diploma to Barry Moodie, as his children Emmett and Kate and his late wife’s mother, Mary Altenburg, look on.

    October 23, 2025

    Mary “Christina” Moodie had a simple but powerful goal: to finish her college degree so her children could see the value of higher education. On Aug. 1, in an intimate ceremony inside the Chancellor’s Office at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, her dream was fulfilled. Chancellor Manohar Singh handed Christina’s diploma to her family, which included […]

  6. UW-Milwaukee engineer discovers a way to turn used EV batteries into fertilizer

    Photo of Deyang Qu, professor of mechanical engineering at UWM, holding a lithium iron phosphate battery, one of many needed to power electric vehicles. He has developed a strategy to recycle the retired batteries to create an economic opportunity. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)

    October 22, 2025

    As electric vehicle batteries age out – typically after about 10 years – the world is bracing for a wave of expired lithium-ion batteries with no affordable way to recycle them. The problem is especially pressing with lithium iron phosphate batteries, the kind most commonly used in EVs, E-delivery vans and E-buses. Traditional disposal of […]

  7. UW-Stout women’s golf outpaces field to win conference crown, sets eyes on national tourney

    Photo: The UW-Stout women's golf team celebrates their victory at the WIAC Championship. / Photo by Steve Frommell

    October 21, 2025

    Blue Devils win first WIAC title since 2016, earn NCAA bid The UW-Stout women’s golf team’s victory this month at the conference championship, where they triumphed by a near-record margin, isn’t the culmination of a season: It’s a sign of things to come for a young, focused and talented Blue Devils team. Sophomore Julia Imai and junior Brin Neumann placed […]

  8. UW-Eau Claire, Chippewa Valley Technical College collaborate to remove barriers for transfer students

    Aerial photo of UW-Eau Claire

    October 20, 2025

    Removing barriers and creating new pathways to empower students was the driving force behind six new articulation agreements the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire signed with Chippewa Valley Technical College this fall. Building on the longstanding collaboration between the two institutions, the new articulation agreements will help students more easily transfer credits earned at CVTC to […]

  9. Leading in Health Professions: UWL health programs see continual growth, top-tier outcomes and direct pipelines to employment

    Photo: One of the fastest growing areas in Health Professions is Radiologic Sciences. From left, UWL student Ally Richarson, Director of Radiologic Sciences Melissa Weege, and UWL students Maddy Benson and Emma Strassburg are using VERT- radiation therapy virtual reality software.

    October 17, 2025

    From Radiologic Science to Physical Therapy, UW-La Crosse is making its mark as a leader in health professions education. UWL’s health programs are expanding, student interest is surging and growing support services on campus are helping future healthcare professionals prepare from day one on campus. Over the past several years, UWL Health Professions Department programs have added new degrees, expanded […]

  10. Bucky’s Tuition Promise boosts retention rate for lower-income students, long-term study finds

    Photo of Bascom Hall: “Overall, it’s really promising to see that new populations of students who were brought to campus through Bucky’s Tuition Promise are succeeding at such high rates,” says research analyst Amberly Dziesinski. Photo: Bryce Richter / UW–Madison

    October 16, 2025

    A flagship financial aid program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that provides generous support to in-state students from low- to moderate-income families increases student retention by several percentage points, according to new research. The study, published this month in the Peabody Journal of Education, is the first to assess the long-term outcomes of Bucky’s Tuition Promise, which […]

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