Stroke survivors, their family members, friends and caregivers learned what happens to the brain during a stroke and how it affects communication from Mary Day, clinical professor of communicative disorders at UW-Stevens Point, at the “Surviving Stroke Together” Portage County Area Stroke Support Group on Monday, Sept. 30 at the Lincoln Center. Over one million […]
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After 43 years, a local Vietnam vet was presented with the Distinguished Flying Cross for service as a Huey pilot in 1970 at a ceremony hosted by the UW-Stevens Point ROTC program on Thursday, Sept. 26. Brigadier General John E. McCoy of the Wisconsin Air National Guard presented Warrant Officer One Steven C. Ellis with […]
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Wisconsin ranks third in the nation for potato production and includes more than 35,000 jobs in the state. One of the oldest potato growers in the area shared its story with students in the UW-Stevens Point School of Business & Economics on Thursday, Sept. 26. “Exploring Careers in Agri-Business” featured a panel from Bushmans’, Inc. […]
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Kirk Booher ’86 returned to UW-Stevens Point today to listen to internship presentations and share his own accounting internship story from Clifton Gunderson (now Clifton Larson Allen) in 1986. Booher is currently a senior vice president at BB&T Bank in Chicago. Work History: BB&T Bank – BB&T Real Estate Funding, LLC, Chicago, Ill. Senior Vice President […]
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Students in Professor Tom Wetter’s First-Year Seminar course “Running and the Meaning of Life” may have found answers and inspiration from guest speakers David Chrisinger ’09 (social science history) and Brett Foley. The two childhood friends are running a 50-mile ultramarathon on October 26, 2013, to raise $10,000 for The Mission Continues, a national service organization that helps […]
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*Project GO (Global Officers) is a collaborative initiative that promotes critical language education, study abroad and intercultural dialogue opportunities for ROTC students. Project GO programs focus exclusively on the languages and countries of the Middle East, Asia, Central Asia and Africa. By Cadet David Teclaw Traveling through and studying Russia for eight weeks via Project […]
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Gluten-free eating receives a lot of coverage and media hype, but what does it really mean to eat gluten free? A UW-Stevens Point dietetics alumna and current student teamed together to provide valuable information for faculty and staff as a part of the Employee Wellness Summer Lunch and Learn Series on Tuesday, Aug. 13. Hannah […]
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Robert Booth ’89 tapped into his background as a health promotion/wellness student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point to complete a milestone in just four and a half days. Booth, age 52, of Madison, Wis., successfully completed the 1400-km London-Edinburgh-London Randonneuring bicycle ride held July 28–Aug. 2 in the United Kingdom. Held every four years, […]
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It has now been just over a week since returning home from Africa. Once again I am left with conflicting thoughts of the trip and what I left behind. There is not a day that passes where I don’t find myself thinking about the learners in Africa. My main purpose of going on the trip […]
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By Cadet Alexander Reeder, UW-Stevens Point Pointer Battalion I have spent an amazing time in the Balkan country of Montenegro. This beautiful country, known for its rolling black mountains and breathtaking valleys–both of which I have traveled through–has been my home these past days and weeks. I have made inseparable friendships with both fellow cadets […]
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