Student Voice wins nine awards in statewide collegiate journalism contest
The Student Voice, the student-run newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, received nine awards at the 2025 Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation Collegiate Better Newspaper Contest earlier this month. The contest featured 331 entries from 12 campus newspapers, highlighting excellence in various journalistic categories. The publication secured two first place awards, one for public affairs reporting awarded to Angel Riley, a senior from Brooklyn Center, Minn., for her story “DIB to
Criminology students put research skills to work to fight sexual exploitation
When Ashley Moore, executive director of Citizens Against Sex Trafficking (C.A.S.T.), needed well-researched content for her group’s monthly newsletter, she reached out to University of Wisconsin-River Falls Criminology Professor Desiree Wiesen-Martin. The two worked together to come up with a plan that would not only provide the content Moore needed but would also give students in Wiesen-Martin's Victimology class some valuable real-world experience. “We work to prevent human trafficking and
UWRF students present research at Research in the Rotunda in Madison
Eight undergraduate researchers from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls joined around 125 students from across the Universities of Wisconsin to present their work at the 22nd annual Research in the Rotunda event, held March 11 at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. Seven current students and one recent graduate represented UWRF at the event, presenting research on projects as diverse as colliding catalysts in chemistry, the biology of cancer, business psychology, Latin American history and
“Birds and the Urban Landscape” will be topic of presentation at UWRF March 21
University of Wisconsin-River Falls Biology and Ornithology Lecturer Sami Nichols will give a presentation titled “Birds and the Urban Landscape” on Saturday, March 21, from 10:30 to noon in the UWRF North Hall Auditorium at 410 S. 3rd St. in River Falls. The presentation is free and open to the public. Nichols, who also teaches at Anoka Ramsey Community College, has studied the ecology of birds in urban landscapes since 2010 in collaboration with citizen-science monitoring projects across the Twin
