For 13 years Pusaporn Tabrizi has worked to better the lives of multicultural students. Now she is UW-Platteville’s Woman of the Year.

The three finalists for the vacant Dining Services Director position visited campus last week.
The first candidate, Shuja Shiddiqui, visited UW-Platteville on March 3. Shiddiqui earned his bachelor’s degree in organizational behavioral management and industrial organizational psychology in 1991 from the University of Houston. In 2000 Shiddiqui earned his master’s degree in management information [...]

Commencement officials say the May 2010 ceremony is going to be a little different this year.
Swaminat Balachandran, chair of the University Commencement Committee, said the major difference will be the amount of guests allowed to attend. Graduating seniors are now only allowed to reserve a maximum of four tickets for their friends and family to [...]

The final three candidates to become the next chancellor of UW-Platteville visited campus over the past two weeks and each had a different outlook for the university. Chancellor candidates Dennis Shields, Susan Koch and Michael Harris each spoke at two open forums, attended a luncheon with student leaders and toured the campus.

UW-Platteville students have shown they can compete with the best students in the nation.
On Feb. 16, four UW-P students and a professor traveled to Washington D.C. for the Association of Government Accountant’s Government Finance Case Challenge to present their case at a national leadership conference, after being selected as one of two finalists for the [...]

UW-Platteville’s student radio station has resumed online streaming around the world.
91 FM, WSUP has served as the campus radio station since 1964 and originally began web-casting in the spring of 2006, but Dave Meinhardt, adviser for WSUP, said as federal laws changed, WSUP was not prepared to meet the rigorous technical specifications to legally air [...]

Monday’s Student Senate meeting lasted three hours, due to a heated debate that called into question whether an executive board member should be terminated from his position.
The hearing, initiated by student body President Eli Caywood and Vice President Cody Camacho, was to decide if Special Projects Manager Adam Hendryx had failed to fulfill the position’s [...]

Theft, vandalism and insults are becoming a problem in Glenview Commons according to dining services officials.
Student manager of Glennview Commons, Bob Degrenier, said students have been known to steal trays and silverware from Glennview Commons in the past, but it was never a major issue. Past practice has been to put signs up around the [...]

UW-Platteville lost one of its own last week when former professor Jerry Scheppers died following a 30-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 76.

The UW-Platteville Presidents Council is sponsoring a performance and dialogue on diversity. FLOW Theater will be performing its production of “One Race, One People, One Peace: We are one human race!” in Velzy Commons at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25.
“The student leaders of UW-P have come to the consensus that we need to do a [...]

With options such as interlibrary loans, library catalogs, universal borrowing and electronic databases, the Karrmann Library can be an intimidating place for students, and even more so to those who are not familiar with the resources available within and how to use them. That is why the library staff is offering free research sessions to [...]

The Pioneer All-Star Cheer and Stunt Club placed second in their first competition this spring on Feb. 21 at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells.

Geri Hockfield Malandra is the previous senior vice president of the American Council on Education and previous vice chancellor for strategic management at the University of Texas System, but on Monday she became the first of four finalists vying for UW-Platteville’s chancellor position, to visit campus.

Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle announced earlier this month that he wants 25 percent of the state’s energy usage to be renewable by 2025. The governor’s remarks have started a debate on campus on how UW-Platteville can shift more of its energy consumption to renewable sources, and several UW-P faculty members think they have a good idea.

UW-Platteville has given more than $200,000 to their students to invest in the stock market.
The UW-P Pioneer Investment Club will be hosting an information session from 4:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24 in order to recruit new club members for the 2010-11 school year. The session will be held in room 115 of [...]

The nationally recognized Wisconsin Brass Quintet played Feb. 10 at the Center for the Arts as part of the Performing Arts Series.

UW-Platteville’s Soils Judging Team will be traveling to Texas next month in hopes of claiming its 12th national championship.
Chris Baxter, assistant professor of agronomy and the Soils Judging Team adviser, said the team consists of 12 students who classify soils into 12 general classes. Every soil can be described by classification, but the soils are [...]

Seven students from UW-Platteville did something extraordinary with their winter break. Instead of spending the month at home playing video games or laying on the couch, these students spent their winter break in the country of Ghana.

The UW-Platteville chancellor search and screen committee announced the four finalists in a press release Feb. 16.

Hammers, drills and bulldozers have become familiar sounds to students, faculty and staff who frequent Boebel Hall.
Construction began in Boebel Hall on Jan. 11 that will add four state-of-the-art labs to the campus’ central classroom building. The downside of the construction is that most of it takes place during standard class hours and some students [...]

Nearly two years since declaring itself smoke free, UW-Platteville struggles with enforcement.
Campus Public Information Officer Barb Daus sent out an all-campus e-mail Feb. 1 to remind the UW-P community about UW-P’s Clean Air and Smoking Policy. The policy, passed in August of 2008, declared the entire academic sector of campus a smoke free zone, but [...]

Thanks in part to parking tickets, campus police have a new vehicle to pull students over in.

It’s four weeks into spring semester, and UW-Platteville students are searching for housing for the next academic year.
Students gathered in Ullsvik Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 3 for the university’s semi-annual Housing Fair. Velzy Commons had tables set up with different area landlords available at each one. The landlords offered students information on houses and apartments [...]

Earlier this year the UW-Platteville public relations department put out a press release looking for more students, staff and faculty to become Safe Zone trained and Safe Zone officials have said the campus has stepped up to the challange with more than 75 people completing the training in January alone.
Deirdre Dalsing, a counselor for UW-P [...]

Following the earthquake in Haiti last month, the American Red Cross provided an information table in Heritage Hall in the Pioneer Student Center to talk with UW-Platteville students about volunteer opportunities with their organization.
According to the American Red Cross Web site, they provide domestic and international disaster relief, community service, blood and blood product distribution, [...]

UW-Platteville has seen a wide variety of characters pass through their halls as distinguished lecturer over the years. A co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, a firefighter trapped during 9/11 and now an environmental activist and relative to two slain politicians — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been named distinguished lecturer for the spring [...]

The UW-Platteville student radio station 91 FM, WSUP, received a much needed upgrade over winter break in the form of a new digital sound board.

On Thursday, Feb. 4, the UW-Platteville College of Liberal Arts and Education will host the fourth installment of the LAE faculty forum series, “Food Fights: Latin American Intertexuality in Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and One Hundred Years of Solitude.” The presentation will be held in the Lundeen Lecture Hall, located in Doudna Hall on the [...]

RecycleMania, an international initiative designed to help save the earth, has made its way on campus for the 2010 season and in a few short weeks almost 5,000 pounds of recycled materials have been collected.

Seven weeks, four blocked arteries and one life-altering ordeal later, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Graduate Students David Van Buren has returned to UW-Platteville.
Van Buren had quadruple bypass surgery Dec.7, 2009 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison. Arterial blockage was discovered after a failed stress test. Doctors were hoping to use stints to diminish [...]

Winter break is a time to visit family and friends, catch up on sleep lost during finals week and enjoy the snow, but for a growing number of UW-Platteville students, the beginning of January has become the premier time to complete credits needed to graduate or quickly knock out some general education courses.
UW-Platteville’s winterim classes [...]

The Exponent, took home three awards this year at the 2009 Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation’s Better Newspaper and Advertising Contest.

While searching for books on Amazon.com, UW-Platteville students can now find one of their own professors’ published works.
UW-P criminal justice lecturer Aric Dutelle’s new book “An Introduction to Crime Scene Investigation” was released Jan. 11. According to the book’s publishers, Jones and Bartlett, the book seeks to eliminate the myths of crime scene investigation [...]

UW-Platteville’s Ottensman Hall was evacuated for 22 minutes Jan. 21 following a reported gas leak.
Scott Marquardt, director of campus police, said that a valve within the building was left open by accident sometime in the morning causing gas to leak into the air. Around 11 a.m. someone within the building smelled the gas and pulled [...]

Sorority on probation for two years and can not rush until fall.