Students at Royall High School in Elroy, Wis., who attend the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will benefit through scholarships funded by a $1 million endowment. [View Photos] Gifts from Thomas F. Davis estate created the Carol Krohn College Scholarship, which will support one or more $2,500 scholarships for Royall graduates. The award is renewable for […]
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University of Chicago professor of economics, Walmart chief economist and UW-Stevens Point Distinguished Alumnus John List ’92 returned to campus March 3-4 to speak about his experiences of scaling great ideas and shared stories from the White House and Chicago Heights schools to Uber and Lift. [View Photos] List presented “The Voltage Effect: How to […]
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The Chinese National women’s ice hockey team may not be the first team you’d cheer on at the Olympics. But this team has the strongest ties to northcentral and western Wisconsin. It is coached by Brian Idalski, and Hailey Rock is its athletic trainer. Both are University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point alumni, and Rock is from […]
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A substantial gift from a couple with careers as executives in professional sports and arena management will help support University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Athletics through five graduate assistantships. Dan Hauser, a 1977 alumnus in business education, and his wife, Marilyn, will fund five graduate assistant positions in Pointers Athletics for two years each. The positions […]
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For just the third time since 1968, a decorated military alum has taken the helm of the Army ROTC program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. MAJ Dax Burroughs returns to campus and his hometown as the new department chair and professor of military science. MAJ Burroughs, who replaces LTC Wendy Tokach, was born and […]
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A woman who devoted her career to helping children read has provided the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with the largest individual gift in its 125-year history. A gift of $4.3 million from the estate of Dorothea Harju, an alumna, has been made to the UWSP Foundation for the School of Education. This generous gift will […]
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A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point alum is one of 108 teachers in the country honored with a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Kevin Reese, a 2002 UW-Stevens Point mathematics education alum, has been a mathematics teacher at Clintonville High School for his entire 17-year teaching career, currently assigned to teach […]
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The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point celebrated teachers and future educators at the 2019 Oscar W. Neale Celebration of Teaching and Learning in the Dreyfus University Center Laird Room on Monday, April 29. [Photo Gallery] The School of Education awarded 80 awards totaling $106,530 as student award winners, alumni teachers, donors and cooperating teachers were honored […]
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Ten alumni from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point are among 100 teachers named to the 2019 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Fellowship program, chosen for their superior ability to inspire a love of learning in their students, their ability to motivate others, and for their leadership and service within and outside the classroom. Each fellow and […]
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Known around the world as the birthplace of Wellness, UW-Stevens Point was in full force at the 28th Annual Worksite Wellness Conference, presented by Wellness Council of Wisconsin at the Monona Terrace in Madison on Oct. 30, 2018. [View Photos] Spanning nearly 20 years, this group of alumni, current students and faculty members included […]
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