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Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025

Happy New Year! Warhawk Weekly is back for 2025, and we are less than one week away from the start of the second semester. The fall term concluded with the celebration of the December 2024 graduating class — watch the commencement recap video >> 

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2024 Images of the Year 

UW-Whitewater campus photographer Craig Schreiner selected 12 of his most memorable photos from the 2024 calendar year. It’s a showcase of what makes our university unique. 

View photos
 

Upcoming Events

For a full list of campus events, visit our campus calendar.

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Winterfest Casino Night set for Jan. 31 

Join fellow Warhawks for a night of frosty fun next week Friday, Jan. 31, for Winterfest Casino Night at the University Center! Enjoy free activities, snacks, prizes and more.

Winterfest
 

Student achievements

We distribute dozens of achievements through our Merit platform each year. Is there a student achievement out there that you believe is worthy of further recognition? Please e-mail umc@uww.edu to submit your idea.

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UW-Whitewater places 11 in top 25 of national sales competition

A total of 11 business students placed among the top 25 finalists in the American Marketing Association Outbound Sales Competition hosted by Insight Global.

Read about the competition
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Two from UW-Whitewater football named All-Americans

Two members of the Warhawk football team were selected as NCAA Division III All-Americans following their performances during the 2024 season.

Read about the All-Americans
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UW-Whitewater announces 2024-25 Chancellor's Quartet 

The Chancellor's Quartet is the university's premier student string quartet. The members of the quartet receive music scholarships based on their chamber music performance ability and are mentored by members of the string faculty. 

Read about the Chancellor's quartet
 

Warhawk Proud

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Kudos

Kudos to Kennedy Heckel, university relations officer in philanthropy and alumni engagement, who was featured in Forward Janesville’s fall 2024 newsletter and report. Read more about Kennedy »

Kudos to special education faculty members Amy Stevens, professor, Lauren Zepp, assistant professor, and James Collins, professor, who presented at the Teacher Education Division of The Council for Exceptional Children annual conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last November. Stevens was a co-presenter for three presentations — a symposium on leadership in small special education programs, a conversation session on teacher resiliency, burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma, and a multiple-session on global partnerships. Zepp and Collins presented a conversation session, “Forging Innovative Partnerships: Reading Methods Courses and Post-Secondary Programs for Young Adults with ID.”

Warhawks in the News

The UW-Whitewater men’s wheelchair basketball team was highlighted in a CBS 58 story on wheelchair basketball last month. Watch the basketball story »

Nicholas Gulig, associate professor of literature, writing, and film, was featured in a Madison Magazine story about his position as Wisconsin’s poet laureate and his upcoming projects.
Read more about Nicholas »

Student Success Center

 
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UW-Whitewater awards $2.5 million in scholarships annually. Are you next?

More than 400 scholarships are available to current students. Learn more about the opportunities to fund your education »

 

Spotlights

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Rock County collaborative nursing program in the news

The UW-Whitewater at Rock County’s collaborative nursing program with Edgewood College was recently spotlighted in a pair of news stories.

Read the Channel 3000 story on the nursing lab construction project»

Read the robotic patients story »

Faculty member recognized for role in online collaborative

Bob Kuzoff, associate professor of biology, is an instructor in the 100% online University of Wisconsin Master of Science in Applied Biotechnology and Graduate Certificate in Applied Bioinformatics programs. Last month, Kuzoff was featured in the collaborative’s “Instructor Spotlight” series Read more about Bob Kuzoff »

 

Additional Events

College of Arts and Communication event schedule

The Young event schedule

Warhawk Athletics event schedule

In the UC: University Center event schedule

Worksite Wellness web page (faculty/staff)

 
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