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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 […]

The third segment of a lecture series about the sustainability and resiliency impacting Wisconsin communities will be offered in March through the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The lecture, “Navigating Solar Energy Deployment in the Urban/Rural Divide,” presented by Brian Ross, vice president of renewable energy at Great Plains Institute, will be held at 6:30 p.m., […]

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 […]

Last September, a film crew came to spend a week at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with the goal of highlighting current students, programs and locations to create a comprehensive guide to the university to share with prospective students across the globe. The College Tour, an award-winning TV series that offers an insider view of […]

A gift from an alumni couple will help reestablish the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s natural history museum in a new location inside the university’s Science Building. Don and Judi Olson of Stevens Point gave a donation valued at $450,000 to the museum, which has been renamed the Olson Museum of Natural History in their honor. […]

A new partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Northcentral Technical College (NTC) offers students a degree completion program in technology management through both institutions. Administrators from the schools met today at Greenheck in Wausau to sign an agreement that awards equivalent credits to those who complete four different technology associate degrees at NTC […]

A senior adviser to the president for democracy initiatives will give a talk at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point next month. Nancy Thomas will present “Discourse, Speech, Inclusion and the Future of our Democracy” at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the Alumni Room of the Dreyfus University Center, 1015 Reserve St., Stevens Point. The […]

Chemistry students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point are conducting ambitious organic chemistry research with the help of their professor and a competitive grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Last year, Chemistry Professor Nate Bowling secured nearly $380,000 in funding from the NSF, keeping ongoing research possible and helping his students get experience with […]

A lecture about the resilience and sustainability issues facing Wisconsin communities will be offered through the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point this spring semester. “Sustainable and Resilient Communities” is the UW-Stevens Point College of Letters and Science community engagement series offered free of charge and open to the public. It welcomes anyone interested in urban planning, […]

Peer into the universe at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Allen F. Blocher Planetarium this January and February. Planetarium shows will be offered on the Sundays of Jan. 28 – Feb. 25. All events are free and open to the public, but donations are appreciated and help continue these programs: Planetarium seating is first come, […]

Five faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a collaborator at UW-Madison were awarded one of three 2023 Universities of Wisconsin Innovation Grants for research on phytoremediation, the removal of synthetic materials from soil using living plants. The group’s proposal, Phytoremediation of PFAS in Wisconsin Soils using Hemp and Alfalfa, was funded $175,000, […]

During the fall semester, local families dug deeper into science, using hands-on activities and story time sessions to discover the changes of the seasons, how animals use teamwork in the wild and how some animals use night vision. These opportunities were possible through the relaunching of educational community programming through the Museum of Natural History […]