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Two University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students are waiting to learn where they will live and work in Spain next fall. Spanish undergraduate senior Kylie Newton and junior Morgan Hansen have been accepted into the RVF International program to teach English to native Spanish speakers. It won’t be their first time living in Spain. The pair […]

Unparalleled. The way that Valerie Barske, UW-Stevens Point Department of History and International Studies professor, has stepped up in various roles to serve has been characterized by her colleagues as both invaluable and unparalleled.  Whether she is deeply involved in strategic planning initiatives to benefit students at the university level or co-organizing an engaging night […]

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies lecturer Ryan O’Leary has been an instrumental part in building solutions to support students in his time at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Marshfield. His position is split between leading classes and working as an academic success associate in programming through the Tutoring/Learning Center. While students can make […]

Several faculty and staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have been recognized for excellence within their professional fields.

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Cornerstone Press, one of five publishing houses in the United States staffed by undergraduate students, will mark 40 years with a gala event next month. Open to alumni, students and community members, the free event will be held from 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the Alumni Room of the […]

For the past 40 years, a small central Wisconsin publishing house has produced more than 100 titles in various genres, from short fiction to poetry collections, which have won awards and brought authors national and international recognition. But what really makes Cornerstone Press stand out is that it is one of five publishing houses in […]

When the School of Humanities and Global Studies (SHGS) at UW-Stevens Point was restructured in 2020, Tobias Barske, a professor of German and applied linguistics, had to find a way for four previously autonomous departments to function in a shared framework. Barske was named assistant dean for the school; he had been serving as the […]

When 2023 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point English graduate Dylan Potter, Crandon, began his independent research with History Professor Rob Harper, he had no expectation where the work would take him – just a curiosity of how the Native American indigenous people made a life and left a mark around the Stevens Point area.  Two years […]

In the fall of 1971, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Professor J. Baird Callicott, whose teaching emphasis was ancient Greek philosophy, volunteered to lead an ethics course exploring human interactions with the natural environment. It was unchartered territory – no syllabus, no textbooks – just his desire to lead the first course. Five decades later, the […]

More than 50 years ago, when most textbooks were written by men, most courses were taught by men, and women’s history wasn’t discussed, the Women’s Studies program began at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Just one year prior in 1970, the first women’s studies program in the nation had begun at San Diego State University. […]

Anthony Spiegel may not be a typical College of Natural Resources student. The senior from Milwaukee, who is studying soil science and land management, is following his own path. This semester, that path led him to France on a first-ever federal scholarship awarded to a UW-Stevens Point student.   The path began in the Black […]

Fifty years of environmental ethics education at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will be marked this month with an event featuring a talk from American philosopher J. Baird Callicott. “Fifty Years of UWSP Environmental Ethics” will be held Wednesday, April 5, from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Dreyfus University Laird Room, 1015 Reserve St., Stevens Point. […]