DAN TRUTTSCHEL
Lee Newspapers
SOMERS â The largest graduating class in its history headed out the door and into the real world from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside on Saturday.
And in the aftermath of a global pandemic, that says plenty about the efforts on that campus, Parkside Chancellor Debbie Ford said during a livestream address online prior to separate ceremonies held both online and in person.
Graduates in the Colleges of Arts and Humanities; Business, Economics and Computing; Natural and Health Sciences; and Social Sciences and Professional Studies all received their degrees Saturday.
Ford applauded the efforts of not only the faculty and staff, but of the more than 566 graduates who received their degrees in the 52nd Annual Spring Commencement. This yearâs class tops the 2020 spring class, which at that time was the largest in school history.
SOMERS — Francis Mann, UW-Parkside associate professor and Department of Chemistry co-chair, was one of three recipients of the 2021 Regent Scholar Awards by the University of Wisconsin System.
As UW-Parkside students, faculty and staff begin another semester, they do so with an eye on the future and furthering a campus-wide commitment to supporting the evolution of innovation in our region and beyond. Innovation is all around us. Yet innovation is nothing new.
Brandon Hau talks about Parksideâs win.
In 1873, Racine newspaper stories reported local physician and reverend Dr. James Carhart driving around town in a steam-powered vehicle. At a 1908 Paris automobile exposition, Dr. Carhart was called the father of automobiles.
When Nash Motors was founded in 1916, few imagined that a car-maker based in Kenosha could out-innovate the Big Three in Detroit. But it did. Nash developed a heating and ventilation system that is still used today, and pioneered unibody construction and seat belts. Seems fitting that the exciting Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood is planned for the very site where Nash and later American Motors established an important presence in the world of auto