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As senior Chris Blackmon reflects on his time at UW-Stevens Point, several people influenced who he’s become. The two who had the biggest impact are his mother and his grandmother. His mom signed him up for the Learning Enrichment and Achievement Program (LEAP). Even though he didn’t initially want to participate, this program of UW-Stevens […]

From a young age, Heather Berklund ‘00 had gravitated toward jobs and volunteer opportunities that involved working with people while allowing her to enjoy time in the natural world. Her first job out of college was as a forester with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Recently, Heather was appointed chief state forester for the […]

Highest peaks, hidden depths are no match for Corey Jaskolski and his imaging tech “As a kid, my adventures were pretty limited to what we could fine in the neighborhood,” says National Geographic fellow Corey Jaskolski, a ’00 alumnus. These days, the world is Jaskolski’s neighborhood as he explores the four corners of the earth […]

Even though Brianna Tucker just completed her first year in May 2020 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, she already knows she will run for Congress. Anyone tempted to dismiss this aspiration of an 18-year-old would do well to note: Tucker was invited by the governor’s office to interview for the student position on the […]

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 […]

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point bachelor’s degree programs in paper science and engineering and chemical engineering have both been accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, the global accreditor of college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology.   ABET accreditation assures that programs meet standards to produce […]

For U.S. Army veteran and University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point senior Julian Phan and other veterans on campus, the university’s Veterans Club office in the Dreyfus University Center is a safe zone. “When we are there, we can joke, we can vent, we can be real with each other,” he said. “I’m grateful that Point has […]

Cornerstone Press, the student-staffed publishing company at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, will launch three new books, all collections of poetry, on Thursday, Nov. 18. “Sparks and Disperses” by Pennsylvania author Cathleen Cohen, “Broken On the Wheel” by Ohio author Barbara Costas-Biggs, and “Careful Cartography” by Connecticut author Devon Bohm will be released through a […]

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 […]

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student interns for a local edtech software company have a new, convenient way to complete their work right on campus. The Skyward Internship Center, located in the university Science Building, is now open during the week to provide Skyward interns with office space and a direct Skyward internship manager for guidance […]

Young students at the Tomorrow River Community Charter Schools brought Native American stories to life last w Education majors at UW-Stevens Point had an opportunity to teach elementary students about Indigenous cultures through performance art, which recently debuted on a new outdoor stage. Students in grades 4-7 at Tomorrow River Community Charter School performed several […]

The educational legacy of a retired University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point professor goes further than his thirty-one years of teaching and mentoring soil and waste resources students in the College of Natural Resources. Last year, Professor Emeritus Milo Harpstead donated 22 acres of his land in nearby Polonia to the UWSP Foundation, continuing its use as […]