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A drama that navigates the challenges of growing up and working as a team will be staged in a Pulitzer Prize-nominated play at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Oct. 14-16 and 20-22. “The Wolves,” a drama about nine girls on a high school soccer team, will be staged in the Studio Theatre of the Noel […]

Cornerstone Press, the student-staffed teaching press at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, recently launched four new books of poetry. Cornerstone Press released “Naming the Ghost” by Emily Hockaday (New York), “Mourning” by Dokubo Goodhead (Georgia and Nigeria), “The Found Object Imagines a Life” by Mary Catherine Harper (Ohio), and “The Walk to Cefalu” by Lynne […]

Genesis Santos describes herself as “the kid who sat with the adults.” She listened and learned. Her curiosity turned toward history, guided in part by her history-buff grandfather. The more she learned of various perspectives, the more she challenged herself to question what she thought she knew. And that inspired her to want to learn […]

A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student’s internship at a local compost and soil company this summer turned into a way to help area restaurants and residents divert food waste from landfills. Maya Desai of Wausau, a soil and waste resources major, heard about an internship with Hsu Growing Supply from Professor Rob Michitsch. Hsu’s has […]

Students, faculty and staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have been recognized for excellence and achievement: Voice students were honored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, with seven students advancing to the national preliminary rounds and one advancing to the national semi-formal round. Chris Eaton, a second-year baritone studying with Professor […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hannah Lukasik is passionate about the environment, recycling, clean water, social justice and “all things green.” “Clean drinking water should be a right, so knowing what is in water is really important,” said the senior majoring in fisheries and water resources-hydrology and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. That passion helped Lukasik win a […]