During fire prevention week, the focus is on smoke detectors
National Fire Prevention Week is underway this week and the main theme is making sure everyone knows the need for a working smoke detector in every bedroom.
UWRF Society of Physics Students Chapter visits 3M
On Saturday, Oct. 3, several members of the UW–River Falls Society of Physics Students Chapter attended 3M’s Super Science Saturday.
Planned Parenthood discussions bring about heated arguments
Planned Parenthood. Just those two words have an intense and immediate ability to divide people into two groups.
Married couple finds effective method of removing lice
Lice live for 30 days as adults, usually clustered together in harems of six or seven around a particularly warm, tasty feed site. They spend their days laying eggs –…
‘Glow Run’ a bright, fun success
This year’s Homecoming weekend was the scene of the “Glow Run,” a late-night, glow-stick-lit jaunt around campus for students to participate in. It’s an activity organized by the RHA (Residence…
Even with recent outage, UWRF faculty satisfied with D2L
The learning management system Desire2Learn, or D2L, is an important service for the UW System, as many students and faculty members interact with it every day.
UWRF service helps international students adjust to campus, America
International Student Services, located in Hagestad Hall on the UW-River Falls campus, helps international students deal with living and blending into American culture. The staff helps students’ transition from the…
New UWRF tennis coach focuses on recruiting, improving basic skills
The UW-River Falls women’s tennis team has a new coach this season who has brought change to the squad. Dan Stumpf was hired in early August when former coach Michele…
UWRF now has two cloud storage systems, OneDrive and FalconShare
OneDrive was added on May 5 as part of a service agreement with Microsoft. OneDrive provides an option for cloud storage in addition to FalconShare, which has been around for…
Drills show better reaction to fire alarms, but improvements still needed
Annual fire drills were conducted in academic buildings on the UW-River Falls campus in early September. While campus officials are pleased with the results, the head of the Risk Management…