“There’s an app for that,” was a commonly stated phrase as the UW-Stevens Point College of Professional Studies celebrated the iPad pilot program for 2011-12. Faculty and staff presented on how they used tablet technology with their students, in and outside the classroom, and shared tips and tools they found useful. Corey Huck (Health Promotion/Wellness) […]
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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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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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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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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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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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The College of Professional Studies launched a new initiative that supports its continuing effort to promote excellence in teaching in the college. Café Chats are short coffee breaks that focus on a single teaching and learning topic through the Focus on Teaching program. Faculty gathered for the first topic of “Delightful D2L” led by Director […]
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The head of the School of Health Promotion & Human Development (HPHD) and a nutritional sciences graduate student were part of a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction webinar panel that explored the impact of school health policy on child nutrition and physical activity. Annie Wetter, Ph.D., head of HPHD, and grad student Beth Hanna addressed […]
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Professor of Military Science Major Eric G. Beuerman of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Army ROTC program was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel at a special ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 26. UWSP alum Gen. Mark Anderson of the Wisconsin Army National Guard presented LTC Beuerman with his new rank in front of friends, […]
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Nearly 30 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point faculty and staff took advantage of free hearing screenings offered for UWSP employees by the School of Communicative Disorders in January. Supervised by faculty, audiology graduate students conducted the 20-minute screenings. The screenings began with questions about the individual’s medical and hearing history. Then an otoscopic exam was preformed, […]
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