Category Archives: Health Sciences and Wellness

CPS students earn 2025 UWSP Chancellor’s Leadership Award

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Each semester, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s best and brightest student leaders are presented with the Chancellor’s Leadership Award. This semester, 24 students from the College of Professional Studies have been selected for this honor. These students are a select group of graduating seniors who throughout their careers at UW-Stevens Point have contributed significant leadership, demonstrated […]

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Child Life advocate earns 2025 CPS Student Heroes Award

Tessa Wheat

Tessa Wheat, a family and consumer sciences student at UW-Stevens Point, turned her personal journey with the rare Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome into a passion for helping others as an advocate for children facing health challenges. As a leader in the Child Life Association of Stevens Point (CLASP), she has organized outreach efforts like teddy bear […]

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2025 School of Health Sciences and Wellness Scholarship Banquet

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Banquet

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point School of Health Sciences and Wellness celebrated students and donors in an awards ceremony on Friday, April 18. The school presented 93 scholarships totaling $111,551 in the Laird Room of the Dreyfus University Center. Slideshow

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Community physical therapy clinic offered through UW-Stevens Point

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DPT Clinic

A space at the nearby Stevens Point Area YMCA serves as a community physical therapy clinic, offering free consultations and services for the public and hands-on experience for students within the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program. The graduate students work at the UW-Stevens Point Physical Therapy Clinic as part of […]

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Top 5: Reasons to apply to the online medical laboratory technician to medical laboratory scientist program at UW-Stevens Point

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If you are a medical laboratory technician (MLT) interested in earning a bachelor’s degree in medical laboratory science to advance your career, we’ve compiled a top 5 reasons you should apply to the online program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Students who complete the MLT to MLS program can earn their bachelor’s degree in […]

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CPS Dean’s List reaches 700 for fall 2024

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Dean's List

For the first time ever, the College of Professional Studies Dean’s List at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has reached the 700 mark as a total of 706 undergraduate students recorded a GPA over 3.75–including 303 with a perfect 4.0–to earn CPS Dean’s List honors for the 2024 fall semester. Congratulations to all! CPS Dean’s […]

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CPS students earn Chancellor’s Leadership Award

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Chancellor's Leadership Award

Each semester, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s best and brightest student leaders are presented with the Chancellor’s Leadership Award. This semester, 11 students from the College of Professional Studies have been selected for this honor. These students are a select group of graduating seniors who throughout their careers at UW-Stevens Point have contributed significant leadership, demonstrated […]

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First class graduates from Doctor of Physical Therapy program at UW-Stevens Point

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DPT Pinning

For the first time ever, the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point celebrated its graduates as 31 student physical therapists received their degrees on Dec. 14, 2024. In addition to the university’s commencement, the DPT program held a special pinning ceremony to mark this historic achievement. The program’s first […]

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Health sciences and wellness professor helping business leaders to reset and reconnect

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Brian Krolczyk

A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point faculty member is helping people to achieve the reset they need to reconnect and rediscover their purpose. Associate Professor Brian Krolczyk, health sciences and wellness and business administration, traveled to Tuscany, Italy, in October 2024 to lead a five-day wellness retreat. Sponsored by the Conscious Workplace, a consulting firm based […]

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Week 3 at APTA

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Cortney Meunier

Another busy week ahead, this time I was prepared! Monday started off productively, I had a meeting with my House of Representative’s staff member. This went great! I felt I competently summarized the legislation APTA is working on and was able to clarify what the legislation meant to a practicing physical therapy professional. One of […]

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