Campus News – UW-La Crosse

Young scholars in Kenny Hunt’s robotics course learned autonomous robotics by building sumo wrestling mobile robots, says Hunt, computer science. Two robots are placed on a round plywood arena, approximately 3 feet 6 inches across. The first robot to have ...

Second annual event offers statewide connections for researchers, entrepreneurs, investors The Second Annual Wisconsin Science & Technology Symposium Thursday and Friday, July 23 and 24, brings together science and technology researchers, entrepreneurs and investors from across the state to help ...

Faculty and professionals who are U.S. citizens may now apply for the Fulbright Scholar Program for 2010-11. The application deadline is Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009. The Fulbright Scholar Program offers grants in more than 125 countries around the world. For ...

Demolition of Baird, Trowbridge (erected 1959) and Wilder halls is nearing completion. Wilder Hall, below, built in 1951 as the first residence hall on campus, was converted to administrative use in 1971, and housed the offices of Career Services, Counseling ...

Ronda Smith, Communication Studies, has been appointed to a 50 percent position as interim director of the School of Arts and Communication for the 2009-10 annual year and assumed duties on July 1. Smith has been chair of Communication Studies, ...

Eighty middle-school girls from the La Crosse area and across the state, as well as one from New York and one from California, were on campus June 27-28 for the 11th annual Girls in Science weekend. The workshop included hands-on ...