Biology

  • 11 UW-Whitewater faculty - Eleven UW-Whitewater professors collaborated on a project to energize science teaching in Wisconsin high schools through the use of hands-on experimental biology. . .
  • Michael Woller - Studying trout brain function or chasing turtles with radio transmitters strapped to their shells may not be the stuff of typical summer vacations, but . . .

Chemistry

  • Catherine Chan - Chan is an assistant professor who holds a joint appointment between the Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry. She joined UWW. . .

English

  • Andrea Musher - For those who think poetry can only be found in the faded pages of textbooks, take a closer look at the resurgence of poetry seeping into various aspects of community and university life, from its . . .
  • Margot Peters - Margot Peters, UW-Whitewater professor of English from 1969-1991, emeritus, has published a book about entertainers Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and their restored Wisconsin estate, Ten Chimneys. . .
  • Alison Townsend - Had her poem "What I Never Told You About the Abortion" selected by poet laureate Billy Collins for the anthology "Best American Poetry, 2006."
  • Mark Lencho - Is currently on a Fulbright fellowship in Nitra, Slovakia.  Several years ago Edie Thornton received a Fulbright fellowship to Zagreb, Croatia.

Foreign Languagues

  • L&S faculty remember Russian trip - Five faculty members from the College of Letters and Sciences, Elizabeth Hachten, Anne Hamilton, Nancy Heingartner, Rebecca Hogan and Carol Rosen, are still talking about their summer trip to Russia. . .

Geography

  • John Patterson - "Thorough, well-organized, and quick with a quip" - that's how geography professor Peter Jacobs describes retiring colleague John Patterson. . .
  • David Travis - In spring 2002, UW-Whitewater climatologist David Travis' research on the impact of jet contrails on Earth's climate received worldwide attention. His research, done following Sept. 11, 2001, when . . .

Geology

  • Rex Hanger - On the eve of a major Upham Hall renovation project last year, UW-Whitewater geologist Rex Hanger volunteered for the less than thrilling task of sorting through piles of junk in . . .

History

  • Tony Gulig, Nikki Mandell, and Rebecca Shrum - Many people don’t understand the importance of a public historian. Most don’t even know what a public historian does. A relatively new public history program at UW-Whitewater is helping promote the interesting side of history to students across campus...
  • Nikki Mandell - Knowledge of American history has been on a well-publicized decline, but a UW-Whitewater project intends to counter the trend locally with an $855,00 teacher-training grant from the . . .

Philosophy & Religious Studies

  • Bioethics professors - It seems you can't pick up a newspaper without reading a story dealing with ethics: the Enron, WorldCom and mutual fund scandals in the business world; stem cell research and right-to-die issues in . . .
  • David Cartwright - Translations of the influential 19th-century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s four works and the survey and excavation of a Peruvian archaeological site are some of the groundbreaking research being conducted by faculty in the College of Letters and Sciences . . .

Physics

  • Robert Benjamin - Imagine a mountain hiker's payoff when he reaches a clearing and catches a glimpse of a sprawling vista, a view so sharp and wide that it seems to take in an entire mountain range. . .

Political Science

  • John Kozlowicz - "In Koz's classroom, we learned how to think; we learned how to argue; we learned how to listen." These words from former student Mark Olm '76 refer to the lasting legacy made by political science professor John Kozlowicz. . .
  • Zoreh Ghavamshahidi - Growing up in Tehran, Iran, Zoreh Ghavamshahidi always believed she could become whatever she wanted to be, unlike the popular conception that women's rights are an oxymoron in her homeland. . . .

Psychology

  • Cliff O'Beirne - Driving across Iowa on a snowy highway last December, Cliff O'Beirne knew he needed to focus on driving. The temperature hovered near 10 degrees and he had neglected to wear a coat, a common . . .

Sociology

  • Peter Killoran - The ability to tell this story has produced amazing insights into the human experience for Peter Killoran, an export in biological anthropology. As a new sociology professor at the University . . .
  • Leda Nath - Last spring, undergraduate students in assistant professor Leda Nath's social problems class were asked to unanimously identify one specific social problem as part of a new service-learning component. . .

Women's Studies / Anthropology

  • Lauren Smith - In Burkina Faso, a West African country the size of Colorado, the AIDS crisis has reached overwhelming proportions; where about 7 percent of the 13 million citizens have AIDS. . .