University of Wisconsin Parkside News

Frances Jaeschke remembers the comments of a local official back in the 1960s, when she was part of a core group angling to build a four-year University of Wisconsin campus in the Kenosha area.

The UW System Board of Regents met Thursday in Memorial Union to discuss a recent UW System study revealing the rate of binge drinking among UW students decreased from 2007 to 2009.

All 12 UW-Parkside wrestlers placed in the top six at Saturday's 15-team St. Cloud State Open.

Fifty-one percent of students in a UW System survey told researchers that they had a binge drinking episode within the two previous weeks, a lower number that gives the researchers "guarded optimism" that efforts to stem dangerous drinking and drug use might be working.

Dec. 10, 2009 10:08 p.m. The shooting took place between Nov. 28 and Dec. 1, when a tracker from the International Crane Foundation discovered the dead crane near the Illinois border in Vermillion County.

Dec. 10, 2009 5:32 p.m. A former University of Wisconsin-Parkside student has sued the college and a former resident adviser, claiming he sexually assaulted her in her dorm room last year.

Jordan Miller spent Tuesday, his 22nd birthday, on his parents' couch, nursing a broken back.

KENOSHA - Mishicot student Amanda Thomm has a role in Parkside Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's classic drama, "All My Sons," scheduled for eight performances from Friday through Dec.

Hoosier harrier Tyler Byrne reaffirmed himself as an elite runner on a national scale this past weekend at the Foot Locker Midwest Regional Meet held at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha.

Livonia Churchill's Sara Kroll has put herself in elite company after qualifying for the 2009 Foot Locker Cross Country National Championships.

Education Dona Warren, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has been selected by the UW System Board of Regents as one of two outstanding teachers to receive the 2009 Regents Teaching Excellence Award.

Fatima Hindi talks about being kidnapped and held hostage by insurgents in Iraq before escaping, penniless, to the United States.

Parkside Theatre will present Arthur Miller's classic American drama "All My Sons" at 7:30 p.m. Dec.

North Central High School senior Futsum Zeinasellassie will compete at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships Midwest Regional this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, Wis.

And the winner is ... the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Theatre Arts Department.

The Business Journal of Milwaukee - by Tannette Johnson-Elie Special to The Business Journal Scott Paulus Joe Wiesner .

University of Wisconsin-Parkside will keep its athletic fields green while meeting stricter stormwater quality standards with a $617,000 project approved last week by the State Building Commission.

Rene Herzing, president of Herzing Educational System, and Gerald Lott, dean of Herzing University-Kenosha answer questions about the city's newest college: Herzing: "We look for mid-size communities.

Kenoshan Mary Jo Scheibl has a sweatshirt, a gift from her husband, that says "Be careful or you'll end up in my novel." It serves as a tongue-in-cheek warning to family and friends that Scheibl could be taking mental notes of your apparel, speech patterns and mannerisms, tucking them away for future use.

What better place to demonstrate ways to reduce one's carbon footprint than a college campus? The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is doing just that, with solar panel systems, high-efficiency lighting upgrades and motion-sensor lighting.