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Founded 1901

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Familiar face returns to campus

Familiar face returns to campus

Zoe Emerson, Campus Editor September 15, 2024

At the beginning of a new academic year, there are plenty of fresh faces on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus. From students to faculty, there are many individuals who are learning to navigate...

Photo via UW - Whitewater website
Brian Schanen, professor of communications at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, runs for Whitewater School District school board seat.

UW-W lecturer runs for school board seat

Josh Stoughton, Community Editor February 19, 2023

Brian Schanen, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and co-director of the UW-W Forensics Team, is running for a spot on the Whitewater School District School Board. The Royal Purple sat down...

Dr. Myung Hee Chung / photo courtesy of UW-Whitewater Admissions

Professor Inspires

Samantha Lynn, Staff Reporter September 24, 2018

Dr. Myung Hee Chung began playing the piano at age four. At age 10, she won national competitions and was encouraged to study at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music. The award-winning pianist...

UW-W professor Jo Ann Oravec speaks about 'online shaming'

UW-W professor Jo Ann Oravec speaks about ‘online shaming’

Garrett Kluever, Biz and Tech Editor February 5, 2018

Interview is based on Professor Jo Ann Oravec's paper titled "Online Shaming and Scoring as Genres: Implications of Writing Programs" which she presented at the University of Florida's Pedagogy, Practice...

The Great War lecture series and nationalism

Nathan Kober, News Writer November 15, 2017

Associate Professor of Languages and Literature Hala Ghoneim spoke about the history of Arab nationalism and World War I on Monday, November 13. The lecture was part of the Fairhaven Lecture Series:...

UW-W professor teaches war poetry

Nathan Kober, Staff Writer November 8, 2017

Professor of Languages and Literature John McGuigan presented To Do and Die: World War I Poetry and the End of Victorian Progress Oct. 9, as part of the lecture series Reflections on the Great War, which...

Student-teacher relations rely on communication

May 8, 2013

  Students have heard of this before. A student doesn’t know his or her grade and has no idea how they are doing in the class. Teachers change what they have scheduled on the syllabus. These...

Newly expanded campus greenhouse opens for tours

October 2, 2012

The Biological Department and Science Outreach Center teamed up for the first time to give the university an inside look at the newly-expanded campus greenhouse last Saturday. The Greenhouse Open House...

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