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Andrew Henning never considered himself the star athlete on the �Ӱ���Ƶ men’s swimming and diving team. But during his four years with the team, he knows that he developed into an all-around student-athlete: a strong swimmer, an even stronger student and an individual who is ...

Third-year medical student Helen Sun is helping her colleagues’ work get published. But in this effort, she’s not focused on getting scientific articles into journals. Instead, she and her classmates conduct “peer reviews” of poetry, photography, drawings and other creative endeavors from faculty, ...

At a family party a few years ago, Paul Halliday watched on as his uncle, an EMT, calmly provided aid to a young cousin who'd fallen from a slide. In the panicked situation, Halliday didn’t know what he would have done if his uncle hadn’t been there. And that’s when he realized: “Everyone should k...

Throughout May, organizations and individuals across the country have celebrated Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness for and reduce the stigma of mental illnesses. Though the month is coming to a close, mental-health awareness initiatives and services are ongoing at �Ӱ���Ƶ...

M.C. “Terry” Hokenstad to retire after nearly a half-century of scholarship, service and leadership at Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences It’s only fitting that trinkets of owls—a universal symbol of wisdom—adorn the office of M.C. “Terry” Hokenstad, a social-work pione...

When Taneisha Deans was growing up in Glenville, she thought of an engineer as someone who repaired cars or other large equipment. But then she became part of �Ӱ���Ƶ’s Envoys program, and learned that the discipline included such fields as computer science, chemical engineering and ev...

This week, a group of hunger- and food-related organizations on campus—dubbed the Food and Water Collaborative—came together to host Food Week at �Ӱ���Ƶ. Through a weeklong schedule of events, they aimed to explore the inequalities in food production and distribution, and ho...

Last summer, Owen Gibson jumped off a bridge while his friends stood by, filming his fall. For the electrical engineering student, splashing safely into the upstate Wisconsin waterway below did not represent a successful stunt for social media or the meeting of a dangerous dare, but rather a direct...

Last year, the university’s Center for Civic Engagement & Learning (CCEL) spearheaded a host of nonpartisan initiatives to shake loose apathy and encourage more students to participate in the political process. Among them: voter registration, voter education and collaborations with various campus st...

Before arriving for her first year as a �Ӱ���Ƶ student in the fall of 2015, Ellen Kendall had never seen a line of code. Her all-girls high school in Northern Kentucky didn’t offer computer science courses, so she had never even considered it as a potential career choice. B...