The UW Wausau Campus Foundation has committed $15,000 in new scholarships for local students who pursue a newly expanded engineering degree program. UW-Stevens Point at Wausau and UW-Platteville are expanding an existing engineering degree partnership to bring additional opportunities to students in the Wausau area.

“Leveraging engineers with this type of skillset is a competitive advantage for many businesses in our area, and will pay dividends for decades to come,” said Ryan Gallagher, president of Rocket Industrial and the president-elect of the Wausau Campus foundation board. Read More

Participation and fundraising goals exceeded. Women’s lives changed for the better. By any measure, the 5-year-long 100 Extraordinary Women Campaign has been an unqualified success. With the initial goals of attracting at least 100 women to donate $1000 each for scholarships for deserving women UW-Stevens Point at Wausau students, the program eventually ballooned to a total of $125,000 over five years. Congratulations! Read More

Although we are best known for student scholarships, the UW Wausau Campus Foundation also supports campus faculty with research and development grants. For example, Associate English Professor Jill Stukenberg is a recent recipient of the annual Distinguished Faculty Society (DFS) award and an additional summer stipend, which has helped her achieve a goal to write and soon publish a prize-winning novel.

“I am so grateful to the Foundation for this support,” she said. “The DFS recognition and summer stipend supported me in my writing financially at a time in my life when I had to pay for some child care in the summer in order to have time to write. Additionally, and even more importantly … Read More