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News Packages for August 17, 2026
UW-Milwaukee neuroscience professor works to combat memory loss and dementia
Karyn Frick likes to think big. In college, she spent the summer after her junior year studying the neurobiology of memory in a lab at Johns Hopkins University. For hours at a time, Frick would watch rats scurry through mazes, entranced by their behavior. For Frick, that early experience sparked an interest in memory that would ripple throughout her career
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Green Bay Women’s Basketball Earns Nation’s Top GPA for Second Straight Year
Green Bay Women’s Basketball continues to set the standard for academic excellence. The Phoenix finished the 2025-26 season with a 3.965 team GPA, earning the top spot on the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll.
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UW-Platteville undergrads use summer stipends to research history, social media, ag, sports gambling
Civil War veterans. Sports betting. Bovine fertility. UW-Platteville’s 2026 Summer Undergraduate Scholars walked family, friends and mentors through a breadth of research in capstone presentations Monday in the Markee Pioneer Student Center, showcasing how they spent the last eight weeks honing skills they’ll need to excel in graduate school and beyond.
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News Packages for August 10, 2026
UW-Stout Polytechnic students support Sierra Space’s lunar testing system
Through a collaboration with Sierra Space, a leading defense-tech space company, UW-Stout Polytechnic students are validating critical systems that may be part of missions that return humanity to the moon.
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UW-Eau Claire research uncovering new information about cranberry production
Wisconsin is known as the nation’s leading producer of cranberries, but details about the soils they grow in are still relatively unknown. Research this summer at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is working to change that as Dr. Bridget McGivern, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and her team uncover new information about the microorganisms present in the rich, moist dirt and sand beneath cranberry plants.
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Work that ages like wine: Grad’s career takes tasty turn in Washington grape country
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News Packages for August 3, 2026
From the Shop Floor to the Shoreline: UW-Superior nontraditional student Joe Wallace finds his calling in environmental science
Nontraditional student Joe Wallace graduated in May from UW-Superior with a double major in biology and environmental science. Joe Wallace was not your typical college student. At 46, the University of Wisconsin–Superior graduate is a parent and a longtime blue-collar worker, and, until his recent graduation, he was something of an “elder statesman” in his academic program.
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For father and daughter, supporting firefighters is a family affair
Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski says emergency medical responders face increasingly high levels of psychological difficulty in doing their jobs. So he was thrilled when his daughter, Bella, began working with Bhagwant Sindhu on a project at UW-Milwaukee to find ways to manage that stress.
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UW-Platteville students examine Midwest infrastructure projects
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