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A $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant will eliminate barriers for low-income students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, leading them to in-demand careers in the sciences. Providing scholarships of up to $10,000 per year as well as academic and career preparation support, the S-STEM (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) grant will provide […]

Students in biology courses with assistant professor Sarah Orlofske learn critical thinking skills and the types of questions to ask in order to gain a better understanding of anything they are learning.  “I hope they all learn how to ask good questions about what they are learning and can be critical of data,” Orlofske said.  […]

Current and former UW-Stevens Point students are working to improve access to nutritious food at farmers markets in central Wisconsin. Thanks to a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant of $200,000, they are studying farmers markets in Adams, Marshfield, town of Rome, Stevens Point, Waupaca, Wausau and Wisconsin Rapids. The project aims to establish a Central Wisconsin […]

UW-Stevens Point sophomore Lexi Kandziora has been keenly interested in ocean life since she was a young child. After three weeks interning with Florida’s Coastal Marine Education and Research Academy, her drive to someday work in marine biology is stronger than ever.  Kandziora was part of an intern team catching sharks and sting rays, recording […]

Since 1894, UW-Stevens Point has been at the forefront of preparing future teachers. Today, there are growing enrollment numbers in both the School of Education undergraduate and master’s in education programs, and a 96 percent rate of immediate employment and job advancement among graduates. But teachers know it’s not about numbers—it’s about the students. That’s […]

A commitment to serving students and her community has been a driving force for Laurie Petri during her 20 years as a librarian at the UWSP at Marshfield campus. From serving as adviser of several student organizations and on numerous university committees to creating educational exhibits in the library and presenting lectures to students in […]

Assistant Professor of English Erica Ringelspaugh is described often as an extremely supportive, dedicated educator. Teaching is second nature to her, having eavesdropped on the conversations between her parents. Her mother, Betty, taught family and consumer economics and her father, John, taught auto mechanics and drafting. While her parents were finishing work in the Tomah […]

Incoming UW-Stevens Point student Connor Schaefer (above) says he fell in love with the game of golf as a way to pass time during the COVID-19 pandemic, as golf courses were among the few places open. The Hortonville native began playing for his high school team, serving as captain his senior year when the team […]

Communication between Ukrainian refugees, their host families and agencies in European countries such as the Netherlands was helped by an unlikely source – the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Two graduate students in speech-language pathology and a professor helped create a “Refugee Dictionary.” It is a compilation of 124 […]

First year DPT students Crisma Benny and Eric Bromeisl work with a patient (or client) under the supervision of Dennis Kaster PT at Advanced Physical Therapy Associates. Personal experiences often propel people to certain career paths. That is true for several students in the inaugural doctor of physical therapy program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens […]

Sheila Bannister-Gross has spent more than 37 years with the Continuing Education (CE) program at UW-Stevens Point, helping people “grow and go,” she said. “I’ve been involved in every aspect of that process,” she said. “That is what Continuing Education is about. Continually educating, continually growing, continually building relationships. That has always been a value […]

As an undergraduate student, Rebecca Franzen realized the importance of building relationships between people and between people and the environment. She carried this belief in creating community through the rest of her education and into her classrooms today as an Associate Professor within the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Management discipline within the College of […]