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An engineering senior design team recently rolled out a new solution to help a startup company stabilize their bicycles. The team worked with company sponsor Boogie Bikes to develop an electric bike more stable than a standard two-wheel bicycle.
This semester marked the official start of the UW-Platteville’s 2.4-megawatt solar array generating energy, which continues to set UW-Platteville apart as a leader in sustainability.
The UW-Platteville Aspiring Educators was recently awarded a grant by the National Education Association to purchase outdoor gear, such as coats, snow pants, hats and mittens, for children in need in the Platteville School District.
UW-Platteville celebrated the fall class of 2022, as more than 560 candidates walked across the stage to receive their diplomas and hoods at the 209th commencement held on Dec. 17.
UW-Platteville’s bi-annual Senior Design Open House will be held Monday, Dec. 19. Open to the public, the event is an opportunity for engineering students to showcase their capstone Senior Design projects.
One student is volunteering his time while raising money for UW-Platteville’s Robotics Club. Junior Scott McDermott has worked part-time at John Deere in a student position since 2021 while pursuing a mechanical engineering degree. This past year, McDermott has donated $3,000 to the UW-Platteville’s Robotics Club through John Deere’s employee giving program, Dollars for Doers.
The Chancellor Scholarship is a prestigious award given to a selected number of incoming freshmen. Current Chancellor Scholars represent all three colleges, and a quarter of them are involved in the Department of Performing and Visual Arts, finding creative outlets to express themselves.
The student group, the Green Bandana Project, which raises awareness about mental health, was recently honored with University Counseling Services' 2022 Mental Health Matters Award.
UW-Platteville Interim Chancellor Dr. Tammy Evetovich, along with Interim Provost Dr. Wayne Weber, shared updates at a Campus and Community Leadership Listening Session at UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County today.
UW-Platteville alumnus Dr. Ronald Meissen and his wife, Eileen, are supporting engineering students through their newly established endowed Computer Science and Software Engineering Scholarship fund.
The UW-Platteville Collegiate Crops Team took fourth place overall in the 88th annual National American Royal Kansas City Collegiate Crops Contest and third place overall in the 93rd annual National Chicago Collegiate Crops Contest last month.
In a ceremony today, officials from UW-Platteville and Madison College signed an updated agreement to expand engineering offerings to Madison College students. The new agreement will add UW-Platteville’s Bachelor of Science in industrial and systems engineering to the existing offerings for Madison College students.
UW-Platteville will hold its 209th commencement on Saturday, Dec. 17. The ceremony will start at 9 a.m. with the College of Business, Industry, Life Science and Agriculture. The College of Liberal Arts and Education, associate and graduate programs will hold their ceremonies at 12:30 p.m.; followed by the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Science at 4 p.m.
Nohr Gallery will host a reception and award ceremony for the 2022 Regional Statewide Teen Art Mentor Program (STAMP) High School Art Show on Wednesday, Dec. 14 from 5-6 p.m. in the gallery. Forty-five artworks created by 40 regional high school students will be celebrated during the event.
The UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County music and theatre programs have a full slate of public events in December, with the Campus and Community Choir, Theatre Department, and Campus and Community Band all offering their fall term productions and performances as the semester finishes.
Organized by students, a recent event at UW-Platteville welcomed a panel of local teachers to share experiences and offer advice to future educators.
A call to serve has fueled Ray LaVoie his entire life. That need to help others has led the M.S. in Organizational Change Leadership graduate to support his country by working for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) – although his journey to this career has been unique.
UW-Platteville and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced the Beginning a Career in the Meat Industry programming, a half-day course designed for college and high school students who want to learn more about careers in the meat sector.
Dozens of students from across all three colleges at UW-Platteville came together for the fifth annual Holiday Toy Hack, to modify electronic toys for children with special needs. Fifty students participated and ‘hacked’ 55 toys which will be donated to area families, organizations and clinics.
Faculty from the School of Education delivered three presentations at the 2022 National Rural Education Association’s (NREA) Convention and Research Symposium.
Brittany Howell, a licensed professional counselor, earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UW-Platteville and returned to her alma mater in December 2021, with the focus of providing counseling services to minority student populations.
School of Education students enrolled in Community Based Learning recently traveled to architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin for a tour and lab day. The experience was a lesson in place-based education, which focuses on using students’ own communities, including the history, culture and environment, as a primary resource for learning.
The Clay Club at UW-Platteville is hosting the fourth annual Platteville Empty Bowls and Chili Cook-Off event on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Platteville City Hall Council Chambers. All proceeds support local food pantries.
The UW-Platteville Foundation was honored yesterday with the National Philanthropy Day Award by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater Tri-State Chapter.
UW-Platteville's Master of Science in Criminal Justice program was recently recognized as one of the Top 10 Online Criminal Justice Master's programs in the nation by Online Schools Guide. The rankings were based on affordability and reputation.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville dedicated a Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2022. The memorial honors 12 UW-Platteville students and alumni who were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Nearly 300 people were in attendance at the dedication ceremony, including next of kin and friends of the 12 veterans being honored.
The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program is one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students, recognizing up to 161 students each year. Among the 2022 honorees is Cameron Pokorny, now a freshman software engineering major at UW-Platteville.
UW-Platteville’s Department of Performing and Visual Arts-Theatre and Pioneer Players will present William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, “Macbeth.” Performances are Nov. 16 at 11 a.m., Nov. 16-19 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 20 at 2 p.m.
The Department of Performing and Visual Arts and the Performing Arts Series will present Duke Ellington’s The Nutcracker Suite on Thursday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Richard and Helen Brodbeck Concert Hall. Performed by Madison’s Darren Sterud Orchestra, the event will feature legendary jazz musician, LeRoy Jones.
UW-Platteville is being recognized as offering the best online student services in the state by Intelligent.com.
In 2020, four senior design civil engineering students were tasked with the project of solving the parking lot concerns at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The students presented their findings to the company, not realizing a couple years later APT would be receiving a nearly $1 million Tourism Capital Investment Grant from the state to embark on those parking lot improvements.
The Department of Performing and Visual Arts will host its annual November Show in the Art Building from Nov. 6 through Dec. 16, with an opening reception on Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 4-6 p.m.
The former University of Wisconsin-Platteville Chancellor House, located at 895 W. Main St., is now listed for sale.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville chancellor search and screen committee has added listening sessions on each branch campus, adding to those already announced on the main campus. Sessions will be November 3 at UW-Platteville Richland and November 9 at UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County.
The College of Liberal Arts and Education Faculty Forum Series will continue on Thursday, Nov. 3 with a presentation by Dr. Douglas Adams and Dr. Edina Haslauer titled “Building a Rurally Responsive Place-Based Education Program.”
The Department of Industrial Studies will host Mike Bellaman, president and CEO of the national Associated Builders and Contractors organization, on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. in Room 103, Doudna Hall.
UW-Platteville has a big supporter in Hensel Phelps – a commercial contractor and construction company headquartered in Colorado. The company comes to construction events, career fairs and has partnered with the university to speak to classes and host alumni Zoom events, providing faculty and students with insight into the construction industry and what the changes and challenges are.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Collegiate Soils Team took first place overall in the 65th annual Region 3 Collegiate Soils Contest, held Oct. 18-21. The event was held in Champaign, Piatt and McClean counties in Illinois and was hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Two UW-Platteville environmental horticulture students, Kassidy Kleeber and Braden Meyers, attended the ELEVATE conference last month in Orlando, Florida, as student ambassadors.
The UW-Platteville Search and Screen Committee will hold listening sessions on the main campus October 31 and November 1, 2022.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville recently rolled out its first women-focused mentoring program for criminal justice majors, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the UW-Madison Center for Law, Society, and Justice.
Senior Beck Hanner is being honored with the 2022 Dr. P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ People – UW-Platteville's first student to win the annual award, which recognizes UW System faculty, staff, students or community members for their excellence in advocacy, research, teaching or service on behalf of the LGBTQ+ communities.
UW-Platteville is the recipient of a highly-selective McNair Scholars Program Grant that will award a total of more than $1.3 million over a five-year period to fund projects designed to support diverse, first-generation, low-income students with effective preparation for doctoral studies.
The seventh annual Pioneers Day of Giving, held Oct. 6-7, received over 675 donations totaling more than $166,000 from students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and corporate partners.
Gerald Gunderson, a 1965 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, has been described by those who knew him as living modestly and giving generously to others. Gunderson passed away in 2021, but his generosity will continue to impact UW-Platteville students for generations to come, thanks to a more than $1 million estate gift – one of the largest estate gifts in the UW-Platteville Foundation’s history.
Interim Chancellor Dr. Tammy Evetovich and other university leaders recently celebrated the successful rollout of the first University of Wisconsin-Platteville bachelor’s degree program at a branch campus. Students can now complete a UW-Platteville Bachelor of Business Administration in Management at the UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County campus in Baraboo.
UW-Platteville and Northeast Iowa Community College recently signed three new articulation agreements that will streamline transfer opportunities for students pursuing agriculture.
The UW-Platteville Department of Performing and Visual Arts will welcome ceramic artist Jason Briggs on Thursday, Oct. 6 and Friday, Oct. 7 for two days of live demonstrations, an artist lecture and discussions with students.
UW-Platteville has been named a 2022-23 Military Friendly School. The university has participated in the Military Friendly survey for the past three years, each year being granted the designation of Military Friendly School.
New this fall, UW-Platteville is now offering a degree in computer engineering. Previously offered as an emphasis under electrical engineering, this new program will prepare students for in-demand careers in an expanding industry.