Carpenter shortage in Wisconsin leaves businesses strapped
Nick Fioravanti, Reporter
May 10, 2020
Carpentry is one of the most skillful and crucial fields of work in the skilled trades. Today, businesses struggle when it comes to finding workers who know proper technique and skill for jobs in the construction and carpentry business. The skilled trades are full of employment opportuniti...
Aviation Plaza redevelopment nearing completion
Joseph Schulz, Managing Editor
May 8, 2020
When Tyler Reilly started Extreme Customs, a technology and automotive company that sells custom rims and tires, in his parents’ garage, he never expected the business would expand to include locations in Wautoma, Appleton and Oshkosh. Next week, he plans to open his second location in Oshk...
UW Oshkosh Sustainability Institute partnership helps businesses recycle
Marissa Hart, Reporter
May 8, 2020
UW Oshkosh’s sustainability institute aims to generate new ideas and advance knowledge by engaging faculty, staff and students in scholarly and creative activities exploring applications of sustainability. UWO Sustainability Coordinator Brad Spanbauer says the Sustainability Institute’s goal...
Oshkosh businesses work toward reopening, Evers announces best practices, safety tips
Andrew Haese, Reporter
May 8, 2020
Oshkosh business owners and service employees say they are working toward reopening local businesses after Gov. Tony Evers extended the Safer at Home order into late May. “I want to be able to look back on this situation and be able to think, I did what I could,” Oshkosh resident Janice Maahs said. Evers announced on April 16 his plan to have Department of Health Secretary Andrea Palm extend the Safer at Home order past Memorial Day through May 26. The plan, named “Safe...
UW System asks campuses to consolidate classes to address financial shortcomings
Joseph Schulz, Managing Editor
May 8, 2020
In order to navigate the UW System’s uncertain financial future, system president Ray Cross is asking campuses to consolidate programs, eliminate some administrative tasks and develop a unified online education model across institutions. The blueprint for the UW System Beyond COVID-19 executive summary outlines the system’s plan to streamline degree programs to address financial shortcomings caused ...
‘Week in Review’ from 90.3 WRST-FM Oshkosh, May 5, 2020
May 8, 2020
"Week in Review" is a production of 90.3 WRST-FM Oshkosh, Oshkosh's NPR affiliate and the official radio station of UW Oshkosh. This week we talk to a criminal justice reform advocate about what prisons should do to avoid COVID-19 outbreaks, we’ll look at what one business is doing to support fa...
UWO research examines ancient Velociraptors
May 7, 2020
Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University of Wisconsin Oshkosh analysis of raptor teeth published in the peer-reviewed journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology shows that Velociraptors and their kin likely did not hunt in big, coordinated...
Journalism department cultivates community during COVID-19 campus closure
Olivia Schilcher, Reporter
May 6, 2020
Community is usually known as a group of people who share a common interest and often a common geographic area. But the Department of Journalism has tweaked that definition during the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a virtual community to keep students, faculty and staff involved and connected. Like t...
Advance-Titan, staff win Better Newspaper, Best of the Midwest awards
May 6, 2020
The Advance-Titan and its staff received 17 awards in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation’s Better Newspaper Contest. The WNAF announced the winners of its 2019 college Better Newspaper Contest Monday. The announcement was delayed from March due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation...
Astronomers baffled by star that is getting fainter
Nick Fioravanti, Reporter
May 6, 2020
There are billions of stars in our universe that astronomers view and study. But recently, one of the most popular stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse, is baffling astronomers, who have observed that the star has been getting fainter and fainter. Betelgeuse is part of the constellation Orion and...
