After being heavily edited before its release in 1953, the archival soundtrack of Dr. Seuss’ only live action film, “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,” has been restored with help from Alan Lareau, German professor at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

More than 120 million people in the tropics and sub-tropics are infected with Wuchereria bancrofti, a parasitic worm that causes the tropical disease lymphatic filariasis. Michelle Michalski, associate biology professor at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, devoted her recent sabbatical to studying filarial worms that cause this disease and the mosquitoes that transmit them.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded four grants, totaling $1.1 million, to fund an innovative study that brings together academic institutions, private corporations and local municipalities to research and evaluate Wisconsin beaches.

Professors at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh do more than stand behind podiums talking about scientific principles. Eric Hiatt and Jennifer Wenner, UW Oshkosh geology professors, are two educators working to further education and research opportunities.

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh faculty will explore the art of storytelling across media, when the 2010-2011 Research to Reception Speaker Series gets underway Friday at Reeve Memorial Union.

A University of Wisconsin Oshkosh art professor’s work will be featured on the Medal of Honor commemorative coin for 2011.

To the casual eye, Linsi Whitman is wading in thigh-deep waters at Sunset Beach in Sturgeon Bay. But what the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh student is actually doing is playing detective. This past summer, Whitman and three other students combed 34 beaches in Door and Kewaunee counties to uncover what may be lurking in the waters.

This election season, interns for the American Democracy Project, in affiliation with the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, formulated a poll given to a random sample of students.

The last thing Joseph Peterson expected to find inside a 70-million-year-old dinosaur bone was soft tissue. Peterson, who recently finished his Ph.D. with emphasis in vertebrate paleontology at Northern Illinois University and currently is a visiting lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, became interested in what preserves prehistoric bones while attending graduate school.

At the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, teaching and learning are not confined within the four walls of a classroom. Some students spend their days in waist-deep waters, collecting samples. Some head to prison to learn about life behind walls, while others start their day when someone shouts, “Action!” to work on a film production.