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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville's Psychology department is hosting a Poverty Simulation event. The event is designed to help participants understand what living in a low-income family might be like. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 30 from 4 to 7 p.m. The simulation will be held on the UWP campus in the Pioneer Student Center's University Room. The event is open

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MADISON, Wis. - Dennis Shields, Acting Vice President for Student Affairs at the City College of New York - City University of New York, has been recommended as the next Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. UW System President Kevin P. Reilly and a special committee of the UW System Board of Regents announced their recommendation today. Following action by the full board on

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PLATTEVILLE - Amy Dessner, a 2002 University of Wisconsin-Platteville civil engineering alumna, was one of 16 engineers nominated by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers to be a member of the 2010 New Faces of Engineering. Dessner was recognized for her leadership during a rare rain event in southeastern Minnesota in August 2007 that destroyed communities and caused

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PLATTEVILLE - University of Wisconsin-Platteville student Kevin Opgenorth has been selected as University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County's commencement speaker for their May 22 ceremony. As part of his efforts as a student representative on the UW System Board of Regents, Opgenorth visited UW-BSC in the fall and was very well received by the campus and community. Each regent is assigned to

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PLATTEVILLE - University of Wisconsin-Platteville senior, Evelyn Gray, has written and published a novel while here at UWP. In 2008, Gray began looking for ways to get her novel, "Magickal Pains: Alex's Story", out into the world. According to Gray, "I went online looking for publishers and I found PublishAmerica. I submitted the first three chapters and they asked for the finished book to be

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville will be holding a Haiti relief concert on Wednesday March 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Harry and Laura Nohr Art Gallery located in Ullsvik Hall on the UWP campus. The concert will cost $2 for UWP students with a current ID and $5 for faculty and the general public. The concert will consist of Caribbean music by the UWP Panjammers steel drum band

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PLATTEVILLE - Each semester, senior University of Wisconsin-Platteville engineering students work in groups of three or four on a local project that requires an engineering-related solution. This semester, one of those groups includes Leng Lai Lee, a civil engineering major from Klang, Malaysia; Michelle Carr, an environmental engineering major from Minneapolis; and Evan Adams, a civil

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PLATTEVILLE - On Wednesday, March 17, and Thursday, March 18, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Pioneer Farm will host a UW-Extension Management Assessment Center for Dairy Farm Owners/Managers at the Cooper Living and Learning Center at 29510 College Farm Road in Platteville. Designed for dairy farmers/managers who are looking to explore and enhance their management capabilities, the MAC

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PLATTEVILLE- The University of Wisconsin-Platteville's Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice has earned a top 20 spot in the Best Buy Online Bachelor's Degrees in Justice Studies published by GetEducated.com. GetEducated.com, an online consumer watchdog and advocate for prospective distance education students, rates and compares online schools and degrees based on cost and quality, student

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PLATTEVILLE - Ashley Snyder, a junior University of Wisconsin-Platteville communication technologies major with a broadcasting emphasis, is a finalist in the National Broadcasting Society's National Student Scriptwriting Competition. The piece being considered in the spec script category is for the CW show "Supernatural" and is titled "Blood and Iron." According to Snyder's academic

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PLATTEVILLE- Wisconsin Sen. Dale Schultz of the 17th Senate district visited the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Feb. 26 for a listening session with students, faculty and staff. Schultz immediately opened the floor to the group in attendance. Schultz, who represents one of the largest geographical senate districts in Wisconsin, heard from the group and answered questions about various

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Criminal Justice Association and Criminal Justice Department faculty will host the 37th annual Criminal Justice Career Day. The event will take place on Monday, March 8 from 6-7 p.m. and Tuesday, March 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Velzy Commons of Ullsvik Hall on the UWP campus. This free event is open to the public. Monday evening will

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PLATTEVILLE - On Tuesday, March 9 the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Pioneer Farm and UW Discovery Farms will host an Introduction to Nutrient Management Planning program from 1 to 3 p.m. at the UWP Pioneer Farm, 29200 College Farm Road in Platteville. Designed for those who are curious about the basics, Amber Radatz, southwestern Wisconsin nutrient management specialist for both

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville selected Pusaporn Tabrizi, senior advisor and academic coordinator at UWP's Multicultural Educational Resource Center, as the recipient of the Woman of the Year award in May 2009. Students, faculty and staff nominated Tabrizi for her outstanding dedication to making a difference in the lives of women on campus. Tabrizi began her

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PLATTEVILLE- The University of Wisconsin-Platteville School of Education is offering a short-term, faculty-led international experience in Costa Rica. Sue Alborn-Yilek, UWP Education Office of Special Programs coordinator, and Linda Doser, UWP School of Education professor, will escort 10-20 UWP students to Monteverde, Costa Rica. From June 18-30, UWP students will learn about the history,

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PLATTEVILLE- The finance team of University of Wisconsin-Platteville students who traveled to Washington, D.C., on Feb. 16 came home national champions on Feb. 19. After four days in our nation's capitol, a visit to the White House and a competition against the other student team from the of North Carolina State University, Kevin Opgenorth, Alisa Antonelli, Travis Houg and Brock Walker won the

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PLATTEVILLE- Campus activities, brotherhood and sisterhood, philanthropy and community involvement have long been the trademarks of Greek organizations at many a university. The University of Wisconsin-Platteville boasts 14 of these organizations, some of which have history at UWP since 1867, one year after the university's inception. This spring, Gamma Phi Beta, a philanthropic

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PLATTEVILLE- Students in the art program, part of the department of performing and visual arts at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, have taken ownership of RecycleMania's key tenets: reduce, reuse, recycle. Over the course of the semester, UWP art students have been reusing materials in art projects to create recycled works of their own. One student, Ciera Adams, a junior from

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PLATTEVILLE - This year's annual University of Wisconsin-Platteville Engineering, Mathematics and Science Expo will take place on Thursday, March 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Engineering Hall and Ottensman Hall. Everyone is invited to attend this free event. Each year at the expo, departments, programs, students and organizations throughout the College of EMS present demonstrations and

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PLATTEVILLE - The 2009 Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation's Better Newspaper and Advertising Contest awarded four University of Wisconsin-Platteville students from the Exponent staff for their work in the 2008-2009 academic school year. Amy Bell Kwallek, current editor in chief, and Dan Klein, layout editor, received first place in graphics for their two-page study abroad special. "

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville's Education Abroad Office is hosting its annual spring study abroad fair on March 3 in the Harry and Laura Nohr Art Gallery in Ullsvik Hall. The event is set to take place between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Students are encouraged to stop by the study abroad fair to learn more about the international opportunities available through the UWP Education

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PLATTEVILLE-The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Community Scholarship Program gives individuals the opportunity to support graduating high school seniors attending UWP with their gift to this program. By donating to a community high school of their choice, donors allow the UWP Foundation to grant scholarships to graduating high school seniors that are accepted to UWP from high schools that

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PLATTEVILLE - Rountree Ensemble, University of Wisconsin-Platteville's chamber music ensemble-in-residence, will perform the next concert of the season on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. The program will focus entirely on the music of Mozart and will be held in the Richard and Helen Brodbeck Concert Hall in the Center for the Arts, located on the UWP campus. Opening the program will be a

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PLATTEVILLE - University of Wisconsin-Platteville accounting students are currently hosting a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program until Thursday, April 15. Individuals may visit Room 108 of Ullrich Hall from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays, or St. Augustine University Parish basement from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. All returns will be electronically filed.

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PLATTEVILLE- The Ralph E. Davis Pioneer Stadium at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville has seen a significant increase in use by high school, college and intramural sports teams since the installation of a ProGrass artificial turf surface. In order to accommodate this increase, a facility will be constructed southwest of Butch Leitl Field that will include locker room space, an area for

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