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[ Contributor 23 Mar 2011 | No Comment]
Dean Koker: Culturally keen, fiscally healthy state equally vital

Certainly, we must shoulder the responsibility to pass on a fiscally healthy state. Equally important is our responsibility to provide the best opportunities to become educated, well-rounded individuals who have had the chance to critically examine the human condition through the study of cultures, science and art.

[ Allison Reineck 3 Mar 2011 | One Comment]
Counseling Center offers new dog therapy program

There is a new addition to the Counseling Center at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and he’s not your run-of-the-mill staffer. He has four legs and he goes by “Sherman.”

[ Faculty Advocacy Committee 22 Feb 2011 | No Comment]
Meet the Prof: Don Hones

“My students are inspiring. Coming from diverse backgrounds culturally and linguistically, they build a community in which I am honored to be a participant.”

[ Contributor 15 Feb 2011 | No Comment]
COLS Special Reports: Setting the Course

Assistant Political Science Professor Tracy Hoffmann Slagter can be described as having one of the most positive, bubbly personalities of any faculty or staff member on campus. Of course, it’s only fitting that she teaches a course one of the most depressing, horrible topics on the planet: genocide.

[ Audralynn See 8 Feb 2011 | No Comment]
In STEP with students: Psych research assistants

As part of the Student Titan Employment Program (STEP) at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Brianne Bartlett and Amanda Schroeder dive into what seems to be an endless tunnel of psychological history.

[ Audralynn See 12 Jan 2011 | One Comment]
In STEP with students: David Hietpas

As part of the Student Titan Employment Program (STEP) at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, computer science major David Hietpas works with Polk Library to create a new online service for students—an easier way to discover reading in other places than their textbooks.

[ Contributor 17 Dec 2010 | No Comment]
Titans’ Molenaar named region soccer coach of the year

The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) has named UW Oshkosh men’s soccer coach Wytse Molenaar as its 2010 NSCAA/Mondo NCAA Division III North Region Coach of the Year.

[ Audralynn See 16 Dec 2010 | One Comment]
In STEP with students: Gina Buzzanca

As part of the Student Titan Employment Program (STEP) at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, nursing major Gina Buzzanca stays connected to her love of theatre by creating costumes for UW Oshkosh performances while keeping up with her demanding classes.

[ Contributor 15 Dec 2010 | No Comment]
Four graduating seniors share their ‘final words’

The title of class speaker is bestowed on only one member of the graduating class of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s midyear ceremony. With that title comes the duty to address thousands of fellow graduates, faculty and staff, friends, family and other guests.

[ News Bureau 14 Dec 2010 | No Comment]
More than 1,000 students to graduate at UW Oshkosh’s midyear commencement

Among the University’s Dec. 18 graduates are a cancer survivor who has already been offered a job as a registered nurse, a communication major who will pursue a career in motivational speaking in spite of speech and learning disabilities, and a first-generation college student who was inspired to return to higher education after her teenage daughter announced she wanted to be a trophy wife.