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 November 9, 2026
Hands-on learning, connections drive award-winning Warhawk’s passion for teaching
From a young age, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student Elizabeth Toffel knew that education was her calling. Toffel, an elementary/middle education and art education dual major with a STEAM/STEM middle level emphasis from Wilmot, Wis., earned the 2026 Wisconsin Art Education Association (WAEA) Pre-Service Art Educator of the Year Award last spring.
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Inventing possibility: UWL education helped Cassidy Sanchez turn a clinical challenge into an innovative solution
When Cassidy (Coggon) Sanchez arrived at UW-La Crosse, she knew she wanted to work with children. As a teenager, Sanchez had babysat a child with cerebral palsy and had the opportunity to observe home physical therapy sessions. The experience inspired her to pursue pediatric physical therapy, and UWL helped turn that passion into a career. More than 25 years later, that passion led Sanchez, ’00, to do something she never imagined: help invent a new adaptive mobility device for her patients.
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UW-Milwaukee support network helps bring student’s law enforcement goals to life
As a child, Ansa Joseph dreamed of working in law enforcement. She was selected for the competitive FBI Honors Internship Program and worked for a year with the Department of Justice in Milwaukee. It led to an entry-level position after Joseph graduated from UW-Milwaukee in May 2026 with a bachelor’s and accelerated master’s degree in criminal justice and criminology.
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News Packages for November 2, 2026
National art competition victory puts UW-Stout Polytechnic student’s autumn illustration on greeting card
An autumn-themed artwork by a University of Wisconsin-Stout Polytechnic student will soon be featured on a greeting card produced by the Gallery Collection, a leading national publisher of holiday and greeting cards.
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Gift creates visionary program in the UW-Stevens Point Sentry School of Business and Economics
A major gift from the McPartland Family Foundation will drive the creation of a Future Leaders Program through the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Sentry School of Business and Economics.
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UW-Platteville students engineer new on-bed exercise device for rehab patients
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News Packages for October 26, 2026
Blugold Marching Band to perform in 2027 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is proud to announce that the Blugold Marching Band has been invited to perform in the 2027 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
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‘We built a brain roadmap for each person’: New AI-driven tools help decode Alzheimer’s disease at the cellular level
New tools, designed by researchers in the lab of Daifeng Wang, a UW–Madison professor of biostatistics, medical informatics and computer sciences, and an investigator in UW–Madison’s Waisman Center, aim to help researchers decipher the molecular underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease by linking changes in brain cells to Alzheimer’s symptoms, identifying specific genes and cell populations involved in disease progression and cognitive resilience, and creating gene roadmaps for individuals with the condition.
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At UWM, student discovers a future in music
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