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An undergraduate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has translated her battle with chronic illness into purpose with the help of the Stephens Family Wisconsin Black Bear Research Project.  Jena Garceau, Manitowoc, was an active kid. For a three-sport athlete who loved to fish and hunt, a career focused on the outdoors was a natural fit. “Before college, my […]

By Paul Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Our group shuffles on snowshoes through a winter wonderland in the Wisconsin North Woods. Bare, dark limbs of maple and oak trees reach to a cobalt sky; 30 inches of snow cover the forest floor. After 20 minutes of moving over the undulating landscape, our Nordic conga line comes […]

UW-Stevens Point alumni have been on the leading edge of research on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, and they are doing their work right here in central Wisconsin. The Integrated Research and Development Laboratory at Marshfield Clinic Research Institute ran more than 7,000 COVID-19 tests weekly during the height of the pandemic. As the only lab in […]

A deadly fungus has been impacting the bat population throughout the United States since 2006. White-nose syndrome (WNS) is what the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) says is to blame for the drastic decline of the state’s cave bat population. “In 2014 white-nose showed up in Wisconsin and that year we saw an 85 […]