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When University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point May graduate Sara Kalkhoff is on your trivia team and the topic is geography, there is a good chance you are getting the answer right. Kalkhoff, an international studies major, plays with her team, the Crazy Rat Ladies, during Tuesday Trivia Night at the Basement Brewhaus on campus.  Kalkhoff has […]

Outstanding faculty and staff members were recently recognized at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for their work during the 2022-23 academic year.  The Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship and Service Award was given to Assistant Professor Sarah Orlofske, biology. She is a supportive teacher, working closely with students to help them think like scientists. She promotes […]

“Danstage 2022,” an evening of new dance created by faculty and guest artists, will close the spring season of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Department of Theatre and Dance on May 6-8 and 11-13. It features choreography by Assistant Professor Sarah Olson and Professor Michael Estanich as well as guests Pamela Luedtke and Aysha Upchurch. […]

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 […]

Brookelyn Heiss sets high standards for herself. The senior from Marietta, Ohio, wanted two things in a university: An accredited dietetics program and the ability to play soccer as a goalkeeper. She found both at UW-Stevens Point. “I have an internal drive that I push myself to get outside of my comfort zone. I’m always […]

Cornerstone Press, the student-staffed teaching press at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, will launch two new nonfiction books, a collection of essays and a hybrid memoir, on Thursday, April 28. Cornerstone Press will release “The In-Between State” by Minnesota author Martha Lundin and “Body Talk” by Utah author Takwa Gordon at 6 p.m. Thursday via […]

A recent morning found Kiara Menzia, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, in a classroom creating music. Using a variety of instruments – a triangle, maracas, blocks of wood, she asked kindergartners which sounded like a certain farm animal. As part of her music education major, Menzia is spending Monday mornings this semester […]

Cornerstone Press, the student-staffed teaching press at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, will launch two new books, a memoir and a collection of poetry, on April 21, 2022. Cornerstone Press will release “Messengers of the Gods” by award-winning Appleton poet Kathryn Gahl and “North Freedom” by Baraboo author Carolyn Dallmann at 6 p.m. on Thursday, […]

In March we celebrate Women’s History Month and honor the women of our past, present, and future. The UWSP Women’s and Gender Studies Advisory Committee has nominated Professor Emerita Nancy Bayne as an honoree this year on our campus in recognition of Women’s History Month. The Women’s Studies minor, now called the Women’s and Gender […]

Flexibility, adaptability and kindness. These words were a motto to Helen Luce, D.O., and her team in UW-Stevens Point Student Health Service for the past two years. They dispensed large doses of each. Five months after Dr. Luce became medical director of the Health Service, a novel coronavirus appeared that changed the world. Everyone has […]

UW-Stevens Point’s Disability Resource Center helps students succeed despite challenges Before she even entered a college classroom, sophomore art major Tessa Rudig knew she would need some accommodations to help her succeed as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Thankfully, the Chilton native found it easy to contact the university’s Disability Resource Center […]

Point businesswoman helps nontraditional students through scholarship creation Conventional wisdom holds that you can’t be all things to all people. On that point, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point MBA graduate and local small-business owner Quyen Hom begs to differ. She believes people should at least try to be “all the things”—but to satisfy themselves, not to appease other […]