The Universities of Wisconsin News Service is a free news and information service for Wisconsin media. Each week, the UW News Service provides up to three text and visual content packages about public higher education in Wisconsin for publication online and in print.
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News Packages for September 15, 2025
The Ethan Effect: Engineering student and gifted pianist inspires Steinway piano campaign
Ethan Squires was a busy mechanical engineering major and computer science minor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, holding down a campus job and routinely taking over eighteen credits a semester. He was also a gifted pianist and trombone player who performed in multiple ensembles, composed and arranged music and played for guest artists.
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Through the Fog: Project seeks best way to measure one long-term effect of COVID-19
The findings of a collaborative UW-Madison study could inform the development of more targeted therapies to combat the effects of Long COVID and brain fog that make it hard to complete the tasks of daily life.
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UW-River Falls staff, recent grad join trip to Thailand to explore Wisconsin dairy export opportunities
University of Wisconsin-River Falls faculty and staff, along with a recent UWRF graduate traveled to Thailand as part of a larger group this summer learn about the country’s growing dairy industry and explore opportunities to collaborate.
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News Packages for September 8, 2025
Art & design students, faculty bring a new view of trees to McIntyre Library
The art & design department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is once again making the scene around campus just a little more beautiful and meaningful through public art. Jyl Kelley, professor of art & design, has designed a stained-glass mosaic window display in McIntyre Library with several student assistants and volunteers.
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An Esports edge?: UWL study reveals cognitive gains from competitive gaming
With the rapid growth of Esports, UW-La Crosse opened its own “EZONE,” a recreational esports and gaming space inside the Recreational Eagle Center in 2022 to meet the demand from gamers.
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Undergrad students study AI outsourcing and what it means for human jobs
American companies are at the beginning of another wave of outsourcing. This time, the jobs aren’t heading overseas. Instead, they’re being turned over to artificial intelligence. UW-Milwaukee students are studying this new trend of AI outsourcing under the mentorship of Avik Chakrabarti, associate professor of economics.
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News Packages for September 1, 2025
UW-Stout graduate students’ protein-packed candy, cottage cheese creations earn accolades
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UW–Madison virologists are at the forefront of efforts to keep tabs on avian influenza in dairy milk
Led by a team of virologists at the Influenza Research Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers and their collaborators immediately got to work to answer questions about avian influenza with important public health and food-safety implications.
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UW-Stevens Point’s DPT program finds success with community engagement
Since its creation in 2022, the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point grew to 133 students in four cohorts, with its first class of 31 graduating in December 2024, and 36 students joining the program this June. “Since the beginning, our vision has stayed the same,” said Kathy Zalewski, director. “We remain deeply committed to engage with our community and look to how we can improve that every day.”
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News Packages for August 25, 2025
UW-Eau Claire student helps preserve supercomputing history
Dylan Helwig, a senior history major at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, is researching the history of Cray Inc., a company credited with building the first true supercomputer.
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A full-circle solution: Math alumna returns to campus to teach this fall
Every couple years, a teacher meets a student who reminds them why they love the job. For UW-La Crosse Mathematics faculty members Eddie Kim and Whitney George, that student was Kelly (Emmrich) O’Connor.
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Future healthcare data leaders empowered with new online Master of Science in healthcare analytics
The University of Wisconsin-River Falls is launching a new fully online Master of Science in healthcare analytics (MSHA) graduate program.
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