In a series of video slideshows, Ian Griffiths of Sage Hall green architecture firm Berners Schober Associates Inc. offers deeper insight on the sustainable design innovations and energy technologies incorporated into UW Oshkosh’s new, 191,000-square-foot academic center.

Some hope to propel business, journalism, geography and a host of other students in varied disciplines with a state-of-the-art educational vehicle, the first new academic building at UW Oshkosh in 40 years. For others, the reasons are further tied to tradition, to family, to memory…

A dedication ceremony was held Sept. 23 for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s Sage Hall, beginning a new chapter in the building’s remarkable story of collaboration.

Just about two years in the making, this time lapse video of the construction of Sage Hall shows the dynamic building’s evolution since ground was broken on the project — one of the largest ever in the New North — in fall 2009.

Wisconsin’s largest dairy farm will be home to one of Wisconsin’s most dynamic research, renewable energy production and public education facilities as part of an initiative involving the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s College of Letters and Science and UW Oshkosh Foundation.

No institution or organization in the state of Wisconsin — public or private — boasts as many solar thermal panels as UW Oshkosh. With summer officially underway, Director of Facilities Management Steve Arndt talks about the varied solar systems the university uses to heat and power the 13,600-student campus.

UW Oshkosh will dedicate a first-of-its-kind commercial-scale dry fermentation anaerobic biodigester on May 18. The renewable energy source will produce up to 5 percent of the campus’s electricity and heat.

The State Building Commission presented the 2010 Design and Construction Awards for state facilities on April 20, with the award for Excellence in Sustainable Design going to KEE Architecture, of Madison, for their Elmwood Center remodel at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

The Princeton Review announced UW Oshkosh, for the second year in a row, earned a place in its “Guide to 311 Green Colleges,” a spotlight of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada “that demonstrate a strong commitment to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities, and career preparation.”

Nobody expected one of UW Oshkosh’s most hands-on, Earth Week student and volunteer projects would demand a warm pair of gloves.