LEADERS
Combining international cuisine and a good cause was a recipe for success for the Fond du Lac campus, which raised funds for the Fond du Lac Campus Foundation and scholarships at its Corks and Forks fundraiser in April.
A rededication ceremony took place in May as the Oshkosh campus’ waterfront conference center was renamed the Culver Family Welcome Center- honoring 1973 alumnus Craig Culver’s $2.5 million gift to the UWO Foundation in support of the 22,000-square-foot facility.
Following graduation in May, new international studies alumnus Max Honzik embarked on a yearlong internship in Germany with the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals.
The Counseling Center on the Oshkosh campus earned accreditation by the International Association of Counseling Services for offering outstanding professional services.
The Fox Cities campus earned recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree Campus USA for the seventh consecutive year. The Oshkosh campus has been recognized with the award since 2010.
In May, Oshkosh campus art students in a digital fabrication class connected with Oshkosh Defense to develop a series of employee recognition awards for the company.
Joseph Frederickson has been named the new director of the Weis Earth Science Museum on the Fox Cities campus.
Jeremiah Hoffmann is the shared athletic director at the Fox Cities and Fond du Lac campuses, managing student collegiate athletics and wellness opportunities at the two-year
access campuses.
The Rocketeers from the Fox Cities campus placed third in the Wisconsin Space Grant 2019 Collegiate Rocketry Launch competition.
Aaron Sadoff, a Fond du Lac campus alumnus and superintendent of the North Fond du Lac School District, has been named the 2019 superintendent of the year by the Wisconsin Association of School Districts.
RESEARCHERS
Biology graduate student Nathan Nozzi, of Winnebago, Illinois, spent the summer months at Emmons Creek in Portage County, studying the effects of climate variation on trout and other fish species. Nozzi was working with biology professor Robert Stelzer as part of a UWO Student/Faculty Collaborative Research Program. The research will have implications for cold water ecosystems that are likely to become warmer in the future due to rising air temperatures associated with global climate change. The local chapter of Trout Unlimited is paying half of Nozzi’s graduate school tuition through its Trout Unlimited Cares program. Check out the research video at uwosh.edu/today/titan-magazine.
Associate marketing professor Melissa Bublitz is part of a team of researchers that published its findings in the European Journal of Marketing from six studies related to the effects of flavor halos that can bias perceptions about the healthfulness of foods and beverages.
A gently used, state-of-the-art digital Scanning Electron Microscope, generously donated by Oshkosh Corporation, replaced a 25-year-old model in the Halsey Science Center, providing students with valuable hands-on experience with scientific instrumentation.
College of Nursing instructor Laura Smolinski, a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE), presented a summary of her dissertation, Emergency and SANE Nurses’ Acceptance of Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault, at a seminar on the Oshkosh campus hosted by the Women and Gender Studies program.
Biology majors Hayley Vandenboom, a junior from Shiocton, and Angela Vickman, a senior from Wrightstown, with associate professor Lisa Dorn made up one of eight undergrad/faculty mentor teams from the Oshkosh campus that traveled to Madison in April to share scientific findings during the 16th-annual Research in the Rotunda in the Capitol.
A study by economics professor Benjamin Artz featured in the Harvard Business Review, which explored why female employees typically earn less than their male counterparts, has been selected for the 2019 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.
CHAMPIONS
Titan pride will be displayed when UW Oshkosh athletic teams take to the road during the 2019-2020 academic year. A coach bus with the UW-Oshkosh Titans brand, a partnership with Lamers Bus Lines Inc., will be used by nearly 500 student-athletes.
Titan pitcher Chris Atwood, a senior from Oak Park, Illinois, scored a no-hitter, only the 10th in program history since 1995, in April against Finlandia University.
After leading the Oshkosh campus to its first NCAA Division III title in March, Matt Lewis was named head coach of the Titan men’s basketball team following a national search.
The Fond du Lac campus women’s basketball team captured the 2019 conference championship at the Wisconsin Collegiate Conference tournament. Head coach Jenna Johnson was named 2019 Wisconsin Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year.
Alumnus Justin Anthony Mann ’13, of Oshkosh, received a Fulbright Scholarship to study Middle Byzantine monasteries in Greece through August 2020.
UWO was the first university in the state to join the Culture of Respect Collective as part of a continued commitment to addressing campus sexual violence.
Finance and management major Luiz Spim was named by Financial Executives International of Northeastern Wisconsin one of five area academic achievement
award winners.
Professor John Beaver, physicist and astronomer at the Fox Cities campus, published a three volume set of textbooks: The Physics and Art of Photography.