Monthly Archives: April 2012

Brown designs new bell tower at historic firehouse

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The Historic Fire Station No. 2 was topped off with a new bell tower, designed by Tom Brown, a senior lecturer  in the Division of Interior Architecture at UW-Stevens Point. Now a museum operated by the Portage County Historical Society, the fire station was built in 1885 and is the oldest municipal building in Stevens […]

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Bring a faculty to PT

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Faculty and administrators at UW-Stevens Point traded in their exams and projects for running shoes and medicine balls as the ROTC program hosted “Bring a faculty to PT” on April 18-19. Photo Gallery Al Thompson (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs), Marty Loy (Dean of the College of Professional Studies), Daron Montgomery (Director of Athletics), Prof. […]

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Classified Staff Appreciation Week 2012

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Several College of Professional Studies staff members were honored for their service to UW-Stevens Point at the Classified Staff Spring Awards Ceremony in the Dreyfus University Center Alumni Room on Tuesday, April 17. Thank you for all the hard work and dedication to UWSP! Outstanding Work Performance Award The Outstanding Work Performance Award recognizes performance […]

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Weaving Hmong culture through literacy

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Every culture has a different story to tell that builds America into the melting pot it is today. Students throughout Stevens Point elementary schools are getting a unique taste of these tales that promote literacy and culture. The UW-Stevens Point Student Education Association (StWEA) received a $1,000 Community Learning Through America’s Schools (CLASS) Grant, which […]

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Scheduling!

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It’s April 16, and  it’s hard to believe that people are already scheduling their classes for fall 2012! Wow, where has the time gone? For those who have gotten into the classes they wanted, congratulations. I bet you remember the days of hoping and praying that you didn’t wind up having to schedule a class […]

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Interior Architecture students experience the designs of Chicago

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A group of second-year interior architecture students from UW-Stevens Point participated in a three-day study tour in Chicago with Prof. Nisha Fernando and Prof. Aaron Kadoch April 12-14. The trip included tours of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Studio and Home in Oak Park, Unity Temple by FLW, Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe, Ford Residence […]

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Students and professionals connect at family relations conference

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Offering an opportunity to bring together professionals and students in the wide variety of family life fields, the International Student Conference on Family Life Education and Wisconsin Council on Family Relations (WICFR) Annual Conference was held Thursday-Saturday at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells. The event was organized by Sterling Wall, Ph.D., an associate professor from […]

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Athletes at risk of Vocal Cord Dysfunction

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Yelling for an entire game, coaches are usually the ones hoarse in the post-game press conference, but athletes are also at risk for vocal cord problems as Mary Day, MS, CCC-SLP, clinical associate professor of communicative disorders at UW-Stevens Point, explained in her free presentation “Vocal Cord Dysfunction in Student-Athletes” at Ministry Health Care on Wednesday, […]

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Cozzolino earns Heroes Award for sustainable food system efforts

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A passion for making sustainable foods available to all has earned a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point the College of Professional Studies Heroes Award. Layne Cozzolino, a candidate for a master’s degree in nutritional sciences, was honored for demonstrating courage, bravery or noble qualities to help others. As the executive director of […]

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UWSP Economics attends MBAA International in Chicago

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UW-Stevens Point was well represented at the 2012 Academy of Business Economics (ABE) 48th Annual Meeting, in conjunction with MBAA International, on Friday, March 30 at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Aaron Konichek, an economics major, presented his paper “The Effects of Attraction on the Rational Consumer” in the Undergraduate Research Symposium on Empirical Economics. Professor […]

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