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• George Kung, professor emeritus, will give a presentation on Aug. 7 on a trip to China he will lead this December.

• Drawing and Illustration will be offered this fall for both credit and non-credit.

• US News and World Report has again ranked UWSP highly among public Midwestern master's universities.

• An art class for teachers will be offered in Westfield this fall.

• Arts and Culture Outreach is offering classes for youth and adults this fall.

• Todd Huspeni, biology, co-authored an article on parasites in a prestigious scientific journal.

• Don Guay, paper science and engineering, earned a grant to continue his biofuel research.

• UWSP introduces live mascot, McKenzie the Pointer.

• UWSP freshmen volunteer as part of annual Labor of Love.

July 08

• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will perform in Stevens Point this October.

• UWSP residence hall energy is is now 53 percent from green, renewable sources.

• Lance Grahn, dean of the College of Letters and Science, has taken a position as provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at the University of Central Arkansas.

• Nathan Bowling, chemistry, has received a $32,000 Cottrell College Science Award.

• Students are gaining international experience as GEM ambassadors in Kenya and India.

• A Hmong UWSP alumni and Iraq combat veteran will teach history at his former school in Wausau this fall.

• Outstanding faculty and staff were recognized for excellence during the 2007-08 academic year. 

June 08

• WWSP 90FM has increased its coverage with upgrades to its transmitter.

• The Wisconsin Environmental Education Board at UWSP has awarded more than $495,000 in grants.

• UWSP's Sustainability Task Force provides direction for the campus' sustainability efforts.

• Host families are sought for German exchange students this summer.

• An intermediate dance class is being offered this summer.

• UWSP Continuing Education is offering a tribal governments workshop in July.

• UWSP's Arts and Culture Outreach program is offering art, dance and theatre classes for youth this summer.

• A Campbellsport student was honored in a national design competition.

• UWSP planetarium offering two summer programs.

• Emeritus professors announce $50,000 endowment for UWSP's College of Letters and Science and Library.

May 08

• The NADF is sponsoring a field day June 12 in Bayfield.

• A Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant will teach Arabic at UWSP next year.

• UWSP sent seven students to the National Model United Nations conference in New York.

• The SNAP program is offering aquatic therapeutic classes at UWSP.

• Six ROTC students will be commissioned as officers after commencement ceremonies on May 18.

• UWSP commencement ceremonies will be held outdoors on Sunday, May 18, featuring speaker Kevin Reilly, president of the UW System.

• Eight UWSP physics majors were accepted into the National Science Foundation summer research program.

• UWSP Continuing Education is offering a culture study trip to China in December of this year.

• A forest management workshop offers tree identification lessons on May 24.

• Senior theatre students will go on an audition trip to New York City in May and give presentations locally this month.

• Esther Bauer, German, has been chosen for a UW System Fellowship.

• Michael Dombeck, natural resources, has co-written a book about conservation nonprofit organizations.

• UWSP Continuing Education is offering a summer ceramics class.

• Teachers may take a course on visual arts through UWSP Continuing Education this summer.

• Charles Long, emeritus biology, has published a book on the wild mammals of Wisconsin.

• The Central State Chamber Orchestra will present a spring concert May 10.

• UWSP students are helping the DNR with a deer monitoring project.

April 08

• A funny and moving musical, "Baby" will be staged by the Dept. of Theatre and Dance May 2-4 & 7-10.

• UWSP's Combined Choirs will perform a concert May 3 & 4.

• A novel by Patrick Rothfuss, English, is on The New York Times bestselling paperback list.

• The UWSP Symphony Orchestra will perform April 30.

• Create decorative mosaics for your garden at a UWSP Continuing Education class this spring.

• A professional dance company will perform their repertoire at UWSP on May 30.

• The Aber Suzuki Center will present its Spring Festival Concert on April 27.

• Becoming an Outdoors-Woman is offering a boat safety/fly fishing workshop June 7-8.

• Undergraduates from the College of Letters and Science will present a research symposium April 26.

• DancSculperscussion, a collaborative presentation by fine arts students, will be performed April 27.

• UWSP will celebrate Earth Week April 21-25.

• The Center for the Small City is offering a panel discussion on economic and social development.

• Award-winning filmmaker Martha Conboy will give a public lecture at UWSP on April 21.

• Benjamin Percy, English, won an award for his second book, Refresh, Refresh.

• Schmeeckle Reserve will celebrate 30 years on campus with a day full of activities on April 26.

• Anne-Bridget Gary, art and design, exhibiting works in the Carlsten Gallery April 9-27.

• Gay awareness advocate to speak at UWSP April 10.

• Copland's opera 'The Tender Land' will be performed at UWSP April 18-19.

• Students will have earned $1 million through off campus jobs by the end of June.

• Laird Youth Leadership Day to feature 'Flags of Our Fathers' author James Bradley.

• UWSP is one of five UW campuses participating in a campus climate assessment.

• UWSP student Danielle Lawe named 'Woman of Color" honoree.

• Clinical laboratory students will present their research in the Science Building on April 7.

• Comedian Jeff Havens will perform at UWSP April 10.

• The UWSP String Orchestra will perform a concert April 5.

• Horn Professor William Scharnberg will serve a residency at UWSP April 12-13.

• Finance and accounting is the topic of an upcoming workshop on May 8.

• Rock-funk-jam band Solution will perform at UWSP April 12.

• The Society of Physics Students will host it spring rocket launch program April 19.

• The Athletic Training program is hosting a 5K fun run/walk as a fundraiser on April 19.

• Michael Keller, music, will perform in his last faculty recital on April 6 before retirement in May.

• College of Natural Resources students will present their research at the TNR building April 11.

March 08

• Schmeeckle Reserve is hosting a variety of programs in April and May.

• The punk-rock band Sorry About Your Couch will perform at UWSP April 4.

• Trampled by Turtles, a bluegrass band, will perform April 3 at The Encore.

• UWSP is offering a workshop on proper tree selection and planting on April 12.

• A nature-inspired health certificate program will be offered at UWSP April 18.

• Becoming an Outdoors-Woman is offering a GPS navigation/geocaching workshop April 26.

• UWSP's Hmong and Southeast Asian American Club will hold its annual conference April 5.

• The world's largest trivia contest, Trivia 39: Trivia Invasion, will be played April 11-13 through 90FM WWSP at UWSP.

• 'Gods of the Solar System' playing at the Allen F. Blocher Planetarium at UWSP.

• A summer studio arts camp will be held this June.

• UWSP is offering its summer music camp this June.

• Learn to Fly through a UWSP Continuing Education class.

• A string band, Pert' Near Sandstone, will play at UWSP March 28.

• An Entrepreneurial Training Program will be held in Marshfield this spring

• The CNR/Biology colloquium series continues March 26.

• 'Danstage 2008' will be staged in the Studio Theatre April 11-13 & 17-20.

• The Eroica Trio, a female chamber music group, will perform at Sentry Theatre March 29.

• Pianist Read Gainsford will perform March 31 at Sentry Theatre.

• Theatre in London course will be offered this summer.

• A UWSP student has won a national grant to help clean up the Gulf Coast.

• Becoming an Outdoors-Woman is teaming up with a grill company to raise funds for the program.

• David Gibbs, computing and new technology, is putting his Fulbright Scholar grant to work overseas in Malta.

• The Annual Gospel Festival will be held at UWSP March 29.

• The UW Russian Folk Orchestra will perform at UWSP March 30.

• With rising food costs, UWSP experts have smart-shopping advice.

• 'Catch-22' will be staged at UWSP March 13.

• The College of Letters and Science is hosting four more Humanities Forums this semester.

• A forest management workshop will be offered March 15.

• Gerard Ring, paper science and engineering, has been named a TAPPI Fellow.

• Military science students will be recognized during the spring military ball March 8.

• Chandini Sankaran, economics, will travel to Peru to support a curriculum development project.

• UWSP students are downloading music legally through the Ruckus Network.

• Kelli Pence, music, will present a faculty saxophone recital March 9.

• Stealin' Strings, a 'bluegressive rock' band, will perform at UWSP March 6.

• Patchwork, a jazz and indie band, will perform at UWSP on March 7.

• Two discussions of Russian politics will be held in March through UWSP.

• A Painters Workshop will be held at UWSP this spring.

February 08

• The Symphony Orchestra will perform March 5.

• Aldo Leopold readings and a film about the conservationist will be held March 1.

• A basket weaving workshop will be held at UWSP March 8.

• Down the Line, an acoustic pop band, will play at UWSP March 1.

• A jazz pianist will give a presentation in honor of Women's History Month on March 6.

• Two workshops on negotiating will be held in Wausau in March.

• The Double Reed Ensemble and Concert Band will perform together on March 4.

• Schmeeckle Reserve offering March programs.

• UWSP students will share research at Capitol Rotunda March 5.

• Theatre students will now audition in New York City as part of the Senior Showcase.

• Women and Science Day will be held Feb. 29.

• The Wisconsin Aquaculture conference will be held March 14-15.

• Barbara Mihm, business administration, was part of a faculty exchange program in China.

• UWSP Fire Crew and Wis. DNR offering firefighting course.

• UWSP has a new community ombudsman in Tom Miller.

• UWSP will stage a contemporary 'Julius Caesar' Feb. 29-March 2 and March 6-8.

• The 7th annual Celebracion Hispana will be held March 1.

• Three choirs will perform in a concert on March 1 & 2.

• Marty Loy, HPHD, has been reappointed head of his school.

• The UWSP Wind Ensemble will perform Feb. 29.

• A second Ford Fellow from China will earn a master's degree at UWSP.

• The Chinese Culture Club is sponsoring the 7th annual Lantern Festival on Feb. 23.

• NPR radio host Liane Hansen will give the annual K.B. Willett Lecture on March 4.

• Sushma Iyengar will give a lecture at UWSP on March 4, sponsored by GEM.

• The Center for Leadership in Wausau has been honored for its design.

• The UWSP Performing Arts Series features the Wailin' Jennys, a contemporary folk trio, on Feb. 20.

• A lunar eclipse will be seen in the sky on Feb. 20.

• Brian Martz, music, will be featured in a faculty recital on Feb. 21.

• Laser light shows set to rock music will again be presented at the Allen F. Blocher Planetarium Feb. 27-March 8.

• Voice students of Susan Bender will give a recital Feb. 19.

• Two sales workshops are being offered through Continuing Education.

• UWSP offering a watercolor workshop focusing on the techniques of Georgia O'Keefe.

• Three digital photography classes are being offered through UWSP Continuing Education.

• Tickets for the International Dinner, March 8, go on sale on Feb. 18.

• Video narratives make up 'Truth & Lies' at the Carlsten Art Gallery.

• The World Poetry Celebration of Languages will be held at UWSP on Feb. 17.

• A showing of 'Trivia Town' at the Dreyfus Center has been cancelled.

• Two Stevens Point area students have won Nass scholarships.

• Guitarist and UWSP associate lecturer Tom McComb will perform at the Basement Brewhaus Feb. 15.

• An evening of jazz music and dance, the 2nd annual Swing Fling will be held Feb. 16.

• UWSP's SGA has passed legislation to support the use of 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper.

• Two music faculty members will give a recital Feb. 10.

• Freshman and senior students at UWSP may be chosen to partake in a student satisfaction survey.

• A two-part dance class for couples is being offered through UWSP.

• 'Make Life Sweeter,' a fundraiser for student volunteers, will be held Feb. 13.

• Treehaven will host a regional research summit on Feb. 7.

• G-Famp and Horton and August will perform at UWSP on Feb. 14.

January 08

• The Department of Theatre and Dance will stage 'The Fifth of July'
  on Feb. 8-10 and 14-17.

• Susan Bender, music, will give a faculty voice recital on Feb. 4.

• Rixey Ruffin, history, has published a book about faith in the 18th Century.

• Newsboys and three other acts will perform at Quandt Gym on April 11.

• The Horn Club will perform at the Dreyfus Center on Feb. 8.

• Barry Scott will present a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Feb. 1.

• UWSP is again offering international biking and hiking trips in 2008.

• UWSP alumna Brenda Luchsinger will give a horn recital on Jan. 30.

• The Red Cliff tribe is working with UWSP to bring herring roe and fish to market.

• Minneapolis rock band, Gold Standard, will perform at UWSP on Feb. 5.

• The 15th Annual Soul Food dinner will be held at UWSP Feb. 10.

• Susan Marshall & Company will return to Stevens Point to perform a dance concert at Sentry Theater.

• Central Wisconsin mathematics students will compete at UWSP on Jan. 22.

• Michael Dombeck, natural resources, will testify before the U.S. Senate on mining law.

• Mudshark will perform at the Dreyfus University Center on Jan. 24.

• The 2008 Arts Bash is a creative fundraiser for student scholarships on Feb. 2.

• A winter CWEStival will be held at the Central Wisconsin Environmental Station on Feb. 2.

• An aromatherapy workshop will be held on Feb. 2.

• The 2008 Jazz Festival on Feb. 2 will feature Chris Potter and the Underground.

• MarsQuest is now playing at the UWSP planetarium.

• Arts and Culture Outreach is offering a mosaics class.

• A workshop on watercolors is offered through Arts and Culture Outreach.

• Join a poetry circle through an Arts and Culture Outreach workshop.

• Veterans are a growing presence at UWSP.

• A Super Sleuth Night for Girls is planned at UWSP.

• 'Paper Your World' workshop for children offered at UWSP.

• High school writers were recognized at UWSP for the 34th year.

• A teaching specialist will speak at the 12th Annual UWSP Teaching Conference on Jan. 17.

• International Programs scholarships have been awarded to 21 UWSP students.

• Participants are needed for a research study on balance.

• Chancellor Linda Bunnell remembers the contributions of Governor and former UWSP Chancellor Lee Sherman Dreyfus.