Category Archives: Academics

Prof. Leschke presents business model at Focal Point

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John Leschke

UW-Stevens Point Assistant Professor of Business-Entrepreneurship John Leschke presented at a half-day research symposium hosted by the Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology (WIST) and UWSP on Tuesday, October 4. The event, Focal Point 2011: Celebrating a year of successful collaborations, included presentations by 10 university faculty and staff engaged in research toward sustainability solutions. In […]

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International Fun!!

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One of the several aspects of UW-Stevens Point that I highly enjoy, is the activities with international students. Last Thursday, I attended the International Club’s first meeting of the year. The meeting was very interesting and exciting because of several reasons! During the meeting, two students from Ukraine talked about there country by using PowerPoint […]

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Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo!

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Flight=$330, Hotel=$215, Registration=$200, Pre-conference=$160, Network and knowledge gained=PRICELESS! I returned from my trip to San Diego, Calif., a couple days ago where I attended the Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE). Fortunately for me, I paid for less than the expenses mentioned above. The experience was AMAZING! There were over 7,000 registered dietitians, dietitian […]

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Space Adjacency in Phase One

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Hello! Today is our final work day before we have to submit phase one of our project! Right now we’re completely on schedule, with almost everything formatted. It’s always a good feeling when you don’t have to rush to meet a deadline. The past couple of weeks we have been very busy here in our […]

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Design Concepts and Mood Board

Hello Everyone! I am Joslyn Fedie. I come from the little old agricultural town of Durand, Wis,. which is only a little over two hours northwest of Stevens Point. To be completely honest, I was not planning on UW-Stevens Point until my dad came across it one night while we were looking for interior design […]

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Phase 1: Complete

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Hello, my name is Lauren and I am one of the four in our group. It’s been about two weeks of work time for our project and now the phase 1 deadline is coming up! We have a fantastic start and managed to only procrastinate a little bit. The first phase of the project (and […]

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Save Your Energy by Making Connections

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Maggie Beeber

Maggie Beeber, UWSP School of Education undergraduate advising coordinator and teacher certification officer, and April Hartjes, an early childhood education instructor at Mid-State Technical College, presented at this year’s Wisconsin Academic Advising Association (WACADA) Conference, held September 22-23 at UW-Stevens Point. They spoke about how four-year universities and two-year campuses can partner together to ensure […]

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Creating a client profile

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Our studio this year is called IA 311 and is focused on office design. This semester our class will be working in small groups to define, explore, create and present a midsize commercial design project. As part of this project we have the opportunity to choose and define who our client will be! At the […]

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And it Begins… (Dun Dun Dunnn)

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We have been assigned our studio project for this semester!!! In our previous studio classes we had been assigned two projects per semester and they were completed by ourselves (or with one partner). This semester we have one studio project and we are in a group of four. Now, this seems as though it should be no problem […]

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Introducing IA 311

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Hello! My name is Carolyn Matthews. I am originally from Peterborough, N.H., and am now 1,000+ miles away from home for the academic year. A lot of people ask me why I chose Wisconsin, and why I chose Stevens Point. The reason is simple: Stevens Point campus has a nationally accredited Interior Architecture program with […]

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