Tag Archives: family relations

Marshfield Clinic Health System, UW-Stevens Point partner to expand health-related majors, clinical training program

Written by UWSPcps - September 17, 2018 at 3:23 pm. Comments Off Tags: athletic training, audiology, dietetics, family relations, FCS, food, health, health care, nutrition, speech-language pathology, Stevens Point, University of Wisconsin, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP, wellness

Marshfield Clinic Health System and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have entered a partnership that will advance the development of the health care workforce by providing new education and training opportunities for students. [View Photos] The partnership is focused on UW-Stevens Point’s academic programs with MCHS’s clinical training opportunities, and to further develop UW-Stevens Point’s […]

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2017 HPHD Scholarship Celebration

Written by UWSPcps - April 13, 2017 at 9:06 pm. Comments Off Tags: dietetics, family relations, FCS, health, Scholarships, Stevens Point, University of Wisconsin, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP, wellness

The UW-Stevens Point School of Health Promotion and Human Development recognized its top students at the 2017 Scholarship Celebration on Thursday, April 13. Special thank you to our featured donor speaker Catherine Lader ’73, MS ’79 and alumni speaker Aaron Hunnel ’13 for inspiring all of us! [Photo Gallery] Dean’s Awards Family and Consumer Sciences Outstanding […]

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CPS Dean’s List announced for Spring 2015

Written by UWSPcps - June 11, 2015 at 3:10 pm. Comments Off Tags: athletic training, business, dean's list, dietetics, economics, education, family relations, FCS, health, health care, interior architecture, physical education, special education, speech-language pathology, Stevens Point, University of Wisconsin, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP

Spring semester grades are in and a total of 482 students had a GPA over 3.75, including 158 with a perfect 4.0, to earn dean’s list honors at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Professional Studies. Congratulations to all! Dean’s List by major (number of 4.0): Athletic Training: 22 (8) Accounting: 23 (5) Business […]

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Imagine this life

Written by Haelfrisch, Kelsey C - June 2, 2015 at 2:17 pm. Comments Off Tags: family relations, FCS, orphanage, Stevens Point, Study Abroad, University of Wisconsin, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP

An unfinished brick building with bunk beds crammed into two small rooms, a small kitchen, no storage for household items, surrounded by more than 100 Chinese acres of fields. This is not the kind of orphanage I imagined. I imagined a building, with lots of beds lined up, kids playing and chairs to rock babies […]

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NFCR National Conference

Written by Haelfrisch, Kelsey C - December 2, 2014 at 2:08 pm. Comments Off Tags: family relations, FCS, NFCR, Stevens Point, University of Wisconsin, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP

“You may come from somewhere, but you can go anywhere.” These are the words I heard while attending National Council on Family Relations (NFCR) Conference, a national conference in Baltimore Nov. 25-30, with other colleagues of mine. After hearing these words I felt like they were fitting to my own life. I grew up in a […]

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2014 WAFCS Conference

Written by Vida, Amy E - April 9, 2014 at 10:03 am. Comments Off Tags: family relations, FCS, Stevens Point, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP, WAFCS

As an advocate for joining things and signing up for things, I always run the hazard of sounding like an advertisement. That’s not really my intention though. At least not until they start paying me, that is. In the meanwhile, I guess the Wisconsin Association of Family & Consumer Sciences gets some free publicity. The […]

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Family & Consumer Sciences

Written by Vida, Amy E - November 15, 2013 at 3:02 pm. Comments Off Tags: family relations, FCS, food, health, nutrition, SOE, Stevens Point, teaching, University of Wisconsin, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP

At stronggggg advisal from my parents, I spent my first year of college at a two-year in the UW system, about a 15-minute drive from the town where I grew up, Slinger, Wis. I commuted in my beat-up old Dodge Neon and lived at home. I transferred to UW-Stevens Point for my sophomore year rather […]

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UWSP group attends AAFCS National Conference

Written by UWSPcps - June 29, 2013 at 7:03 pm. Comments Off Tags: AAFCS, family relations, FCS, Stevens Point, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP, WAFCS

UW-Stevens Point had six representatives attend the 104th annual American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) National Conference in Houston, Texas June 26-29. The conference featured more than 700 family and consumer sciences and allied professionals who shared their strategies and research that help individuals and families thrive in times of change and transition. […]

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AAFCS president to students: Try it!

Written by UWSPcps - December 4, 2012 at 4:43 pm. Comments Off Tags: AAFCS, family relations, Stevens Point, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP

Some of the best lessons are not found in a textbook, but rather come in the form of personal connections. That was evident as Sue Buck, president of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS), visited the FCS 290: Exploring Family and Consumer Sciences class at UW-Stevens Point. Buck spoke to Susan Turgeson’s […]

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Students lead speed mentoring at NCFR Conference

Written by UWSPcps - November 5, 2012 at 8:08 pm. Comments Off Tags: family relations, NCFR, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP

The ability to attend national conferences where students can network with professionals is one of the opportunities students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point take full advantage of. That includes four students from UWSP’s family and consumer science program who were in attendance at the National Council on Family Relations annual conference in Phoenix this […]

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