Archives - November - 2012

To say University of Wisconsin-Parkside Chancellor Debbie Ford is enthusiastic about the potential value of Procubed LLC to students, the university, and the region’s economy would be an understatement. The start-up mechanical engineering firm is settling into temporary space at the Ralph Jaeschke Solutions for Economic Growth (SEG) Center with plans to build a better […]

RACINE — Most people who use a beach for swimming or other recreation have experienced water-quality advisories and closed beaches. As a result of research projects under the direction of University of Wisconsin-Parkside graduate Dr. Julie Kinzelman (’84, medical technology/biological sciences), water-quality advisories for Racine’s popular North Beach more accurately reflect that day’s water conditions. […]

Wisconsin’s logging business is following the same trend as many other industries: Fewer, larger, more mechanized operations. That’s according to a survey of owners of Wisconsin logging enterprises conducted last year by a team led by Mark Rickenbach, professor and extension specialist in the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. “One of the challenges […]

Osama Abdl Haleem describes himself as “a farmer from Boaz,” a Richland County village just 10 miles from one of the UW Colleges campuses. He is one of nine children. Because of the size of his family, he said, many of them probably could not have gone to college without an affordable entry point like […]

The good news: Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) continue to grow and offer better pay than non-STEM jobs. The bad news: There aren’t enough people graduating with STEM degrees to fill them. The nation’s workforce will face a shortfall of one million college STEM graduates over the coming decade, according to a […]

UW Colleges Online enrolls students from all 72 Wisconsin counties and nearly all 50 U.S. states. The program is seeing consistent enrollment growth, including a 15% enrollment increase for the summer 2012 semester. This increase comes on the heels of a 16% increase for the spring 2012 semester.

A lot of parents want their kids’ schools to serve more fresh and local food for lunch, and schools would like to oblige, but that’s no simple task. It’s enough of a scramble to be ready to serve hundreds of hungry kids when the lunch bell rings without having to stop to take a lot […]

Paul Barford, a UW-Madison professor of computer science, has a proposition, and he’s got five minutes to make it. He’s consciously mimicking the “product pitch” that entrepreneurs make before venture capitalists, except his audience is undergraduates in a class on starting a software company. Time is tight, so Barford lunges ahead. “Google is earning $40 […]

Janna Rasmussen of Fort Atkinson, WI, has a confession.  At age 47, she didn’t go back to college to launch a new career, or even to fulfill a desire to earn her degree.  She went back to college because of a steak dinner bet with her son. Janna was a locomotive engineer when her son, […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ6G51qJvMk?list=UU2N4_RItOQ6BbTqpZzVtkkA&hl=en_US] UW-Whitewater alumni Mark Johanneck and Melissa Gerke work at UW Health Clinical Simulation Program at UW-Madison, WI. They credit their UW-Whitewater education with helping them get where they are today.