Colt Sale caps season of learning, training for UWRF students
More than four dozen horses trained by UW-River Falls students were sold at auction during the 43rd annual Colt Sale held Saturday, May 4, at the UWRF Campus Farm 1.
YouTube, survey finds, is for fun, news and learning how to do stuff
YouTube has been a social and entertainment phenomenon since it began 2005. But according to a recent Pew Research Center survey, just over half of adults use it to learn…
Dad sneakers, scrunchies among styles being recycled for today’s fashion
Windbreakers, hair scrunchies and dad sneakers are just some of the fashions from the late 1990s and early 2000s coming back into popularity, if magazines, social media, clothing stores and…
Sabbaticals give UWRF faculty opportunity for research, recharging
Every year about five faculty members on average are granted a sabbatical leave at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. A sabbatical is paid time away from campus for research or…
Printmaking, a lesser known art form, resonates with UWRF students
Printmaking is one of the art forms practiced by legends such as Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and Andy Warhol. Although printmaking is not all that well known at UW-River…
Plastic straws, bags seeing less use on UWRF campus
The banning of plastic straws at many coffee shops and bars has become increasingly popular due to awareness of limiting waste. Starbucks, as one example, has cut out serving cold…
Increase in diversity at UWRF leads to growth in Asian organizations
UW-River Falls has seen a slight increase in diversity in recent years, and along with the growth have come changes in identity-based organizations on campus, especially for Asian and Asian…
Green space, street extension, science building among changes coming to UWRF
The completion of the Falcon Center last year has set the stage for a number of other projects on the UW-River Falls campus. Among them is a new green space…