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Spotlight Stories
Hundreds of K-12 Students Grow Wild Rice with UW-Green Bay
UW-Green Bay’s Wild Rice in the Classroom project celebrated its sixth year with more than 190 students attending wild rice planting field trips at four locations. Throughout the academic year, nearly 1,000 students planted wild rice in their classrooms as…
Student Research: Adsorption of PFAS in Metal-Organic Frameworks
Each year Research in the Rotunda at the Wisconsin Capitol features undergraduate research at the 13 Universities of Wisconsin. Six Freshwater Collaborative-funded projects were highlighted in 2025. Student: Jackson MikelMajor: Chemical Engineering with a minor in ChemistryGraduation date: May 2025 Student: Grace VersnikMajor: Biochemistry with a minor in Neuroscience…
Freshwater@UW Orientation Week Showcases Wisconsin as the Place to Work in Water
Wisconsin is an amazing place to study and work in water. That’s a core message Ali Mikulyuk, program coordinator for the Freshwater@UW Summer Research Opportunities Program, hopes to share with the 30 undergraduates participating in this year’s program. The program…
Internship Cultivates Career in Sustainable Aquaculture
Teo Buisson had a unique childhood. Born in France, he spent his early years in San Francisco and then his family moved to Milwaukee when he was in sixth grade. Spending time at his family’s fishing cabin in northern Wisconsin…
Researchers Seek to Develop New Tools to Remove PFAS from Agricultural Soil and Nearby Groundwater
For years, Wisconsin farmers have applied biosolids—a byproduct of wastewater management — to their fields. The process reduces the need for commercial fertilizers, conditions the soil, and reduces the amount of biosolids going into a landfill. Unfortunately, biosolids may be…
UW Oshkosh Research Benefits Metal Recycling Company
Wisconsin-based Sadoff Iron & Metal Company has offered scrap metal recycling for more than 70 years. It collects non-ferrous metals and ferrous scrap, auto salvage, electronics recycling, and other materials at multiple sites in Wisconsin and Nebraska. Sadoff then provides…