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Having not been held since 2019, the American Indians Reaching for Opportunities (AIRO) Pow Wow returned for its 47th rendition Saturday at UW-Stevens Point. Wisconsin is home to eleven federally recognized American Indian tribes. The pow wow is organized and put on by UWSP students as a culmination of Native American Awareness Week. “We’re actually […]

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 […]

Tommy Thompson will step down as UW system president on Friday. He took over in 2020 during the pandemic. Before his departure, he chose to share his wisdom as UW-system president and the longest-serving governor in Wisconsin history to UWSP students. Tommy Thompson added a new role to his resume on Tuesday: college lecturer. He […]

WSAW Channel 7 Wausau – March 14, 2022 ​By Hannah Borchert UW-Stevens Point students partnered with the DNR to help boost the population of the state threatened prairie chicken species. The president of the Wildlife society leading the ‘Adopt a Wildlife Area’ project said they began the project in 2017 and just committed to another […]

 WAOW TV 9 Wausau – Feb. 9, 2022 ​By Jade Henschel With the pandemic, burnout has become a reality for some healthcare professionals, but UW-Stevens Point is trying to address that potential problem before students graduate. Rebecca Sommer, Assistant Dean of the School of Health Sciences and Wellness at UWSP, said that there is a […]

WSAW Channel 7 Wausau – Jan. 21, 2022 ​By Hannah Borchert  Students learned how to train raptors in a workshop with the River Valley Raptors non-profit sponsored by the Wisconsin Center for Wildlife. “I’ve never been more excited about something happening in a class in my life,” said Cinna Smallwood, University of Stevens Point senior. […]

Madison 365 – Dec. 25, 2021 ​By Henry Saunders We’ve published our Black Power list every year since our founding — this is our sixth annual — and it’s become the most anticipated thing we do. Every year, I’ve intended this list to highlight the beauty of the diversity across our state. I want kids […]

UW-Stevens Point is making it easier for students in the Wausau Area to continue their education beyond a 2-year associate’s degree. This fall is the first semester they offered a 4-year degree in sociology. It’s one of four bachelor’s degrees offered on the Wausau campus. Marie Bemis is a UWSP student majoring in the new […]

Like most college students, Cortez Clark is not an early riser. So when the UW-Stevens Point junior received an email last week summoning him to campus at 8:15 a.m. Friday, he thought it was a little early but he would try to make it happen. “It was well worth it,” he said about the early […]

UW-Stevens Point is the only UW campus to have compost bins in every academic building on campus. Keeping up with composting is a group effort. “We take our 73 hundred students and they all go back to their own communities and they can show their friends and their family and kind of expand this whole […]