Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Greetings Warhawks! Today’s Warhawk Weekly is our final edition of the 2024 calendar year. We wish you a safe, healthy and fulfilling holiday season and winter break. See you in January.

UW-Whitewater’s December 2024 commencement ceremony was held Saturday at the Williams Center. Proud family, friends, administrators, and faculty cheered and recognized more than 800 graduates.

Experience what happens when Warhawks go bold! Our 2024 is defined by our outstanding students and faculty setting records, celebrating one another and impacting the world through amazing milestones achieved at our Whitewater and Rock County campuses and beyond.

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.

Three from UW-Whitewater earn conference scholar-athlete awards

Three student-athletes at UW-Whitewater were named Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Scholar-Athletes in their respective sports for the fall 2024 season. 

UW-Whitewater students recognized for serving SUFAC 

Eight students at UW-Whitewater serve on the university's Segregated University Fee Allocation Committee (SUFAC), a committee that makes key decisions on the allocation of funding to different groups and initiatives on campus.

UW-Whitewater students recognized for completing CPR training

A total of 70 students at UW-Whitewater completed the CPR/AED training course through the university's police department during the fall 2024 semester.

Warhawk Proud

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Kudos

Kudos to faculty and undergraduate students in UW-Whitewater’s department of sociology, criminology, and anthropology, who had a strong presence at the Wisconsin Sociological Association Conference on Nov. 1. Professor Leda Kanellakou was awarded the William Sewell Outstanding Scholarship Award, and associate professor Michael Friedson earned the Hans O. Mauksch Outstanding Teacher Award. Four Warhawk students presented at the conference, and Peter Hansen, a criminology major from Watertown, won the 2024 Student Paper Award for his theoretical paper. Read more about the Wisconsin Sociological Association »

Kudos to Hairi, assistant professor of computer science, who co-authored “Sample and Communication Efficient Fully Decentralized MARL Policy Evaluation via a New Approach: Local TD Update.” The paper was presented at AAMAS 2024 in New Zealand. AAMAS, the largest and most influential conference on agents and multi-agent systems, highlights this innovative work that improves decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with reduced sample and communication needs. Read more about Hairi »

Fun Facts

Did you know that UW-Whitewater organizes fun, engaging events for alumni, student families, faculty, staff, and friends throughout the state each year? Sign up for the upcoming UW-Whitewater Family Weekend at the Kalahari, which is set for Feb. 7-8 in Wisconsin Dells. Act now: The registration deadline is Jan. 8. Family Waterpark Weekend »

Student Success Corner

Looking to stay on track for graduation? Take a class during UW-Whitewater’s three-week Winterim session. Students who take special course sessions are 21 percent more likely to graduate in four years. Sign up for Winterim classes »

Warhawks in the News

Corey A. King, chancellor, was featured in an article by the Higher Education Regional Alliance of Wisconsin. Read more about Chancellor King »

Yanhui Zhao, associate professor of finance and business law, was featured in WalletHub's recent article about the best debt consolidation loans.
Read more about Yanhui »

Spotlights

Rock County nursing program builds infrastructure, skills

At UW-Whitewater’s Rock County campus, construction is complete on two state-of-the-art spaces where the next generation of students will earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Edgewood College, the result of a collaborative nursing degree program. These graduates will be primed for high-paying jobs — and ready to fulfill a critical regional workforce need. Read more about Rock County »

UW-Whitewater student helps land U.S. patent 

Foster Boom, a chemistry major from Pleasant Prairie, and Steven Girard, associate professor of chemistry, recently teamed up at UW-Whitewater to help Girard file a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application through WiSys. The innovation has the potential to make a major impact on prosthetic technology. Read more about Foster's story »

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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