Current Wisconsin Lutheran College students and recent graduates are spending four weeks teaching summer school at Risen Savior Lutheran School located in Milwaukee’s Historic Granville community. The WLC students are a part of the Center for Urban Teaching, a program that provides Milwaukee schools (public, charter, independent, and religious) with state certified teachers and future leaders who have the commitment and unique training necessary to be successful in the urban setting.
The student-designed rain garden at Wisconsin Lutheran College is in bloom right now. 
The garden, located on the Wisconsin Avenue side of campus, catches runoff water from the upper portion of campus.
With storms in the forecast this week, the plot of native perennials should help divert some rainwater from the storm sewers.
We tip our hats to the accomplishments of the Class of 2010, which today rehearsed for Commencement.
Saturday’s ceremony begins at 1 p.m. in Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Recreation Complex.
The soon-to-be graduates did a walk-through of the ceremony, and the band and choir rehearsed.
Reading a seating chart may be the last test some students ever have to pass.
Doors open tomorrow at noon, and the forecast is for a beautiful day!
Five Wisconsin Lutheran College students were honored for their Christian leadership at the 2010 Impact Leadership luncheon on Wednesday.
The Impact Award finalists (pictured left to right) were Sara Boldt, Lindsay Hintz, Joel Schwartz, Jonathan Fricke, and Benjamin Ziesemer.
Senior Joel Schwartz, a business administration major from Yakima, Washington, is the 18th recipient of the college’s Impact Award. Joel has served the college with his musical talents as a member of the Wisconsin Lutheran Choir and Revelation. He frequently plays the pipe organ for chapel services and for neighboring congregations. Joel has served as a resident assistant for two years. He also was a member of Project Ripples in the 2010 Kapco Charitable Challenge.
Schwartz directed 150 students at the college's 2009 Christmas service during a moving performance of Hark! The Herald Angles Sing.
On Saturday, Wisconsin Lutheran College held its tenth-annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, with 12 student presentations being given. Undergraduate students presented papers, research projects, or artistic projects completed under the direction of a faculty member, professional researcher, or graduate student as an extension of their WLC academic experience.
Topics included coral reefs in Grenada, character education in the mathematics classroom, phosphorus availability to wheat from various biosolids, and the structure and function of the human body.
Lydia Krause presented on "Visualizing Gene Expression Patterns in Zebrafish."
Joseph Hockenberry discussed "The Derivation of Cardiac Myocytes from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells."
Ana Stern and Danielle Ashman presented their findings on "Water Quality of the Menomonee River Based on the Collection of Macroinvertebrates and their Family-level Biotic Index."
Dr. David Schulz gave the keynote address following the student presentations. He spoke about writing Arabic names in English and English names in Arabic.
Another semester is drawing to a close, and students are presenting the results of research they have conducted during the past few months.
Today Wisconsin Lutheran College students from PSY411 Experimental Psychology and COM205 Research Methods in Communication explained their research at a Poster Showcase in the Warrior Underground.
Student Dan Rivas shared his research on "The effects of perceived labeling."
Katherine Weyker discussed her poster titled "A study of life satisfaction with high/low acceptance of Christianity."
Dr. Leanne Olson, associate professor of psychology, talked with students at the Poster Showcase.
Everyone is invited to WLC tomorrow to hear more students present research findings at the tenth-annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Yes, 3D movies are cool, but they’re expensive. So we hope you can take a free look at the 3D artwork that Wisconsin Lutheran College student Zachary Beierle has on display at the Senior Thesis Exhibition through May 14.
Beierle’s work, along with that of six other students, currently is located in the college’s Center for Arts and Performance.
The exhibition opened April 9 with a reception. Students, professors, family members, and friends viewed the seven exhibits throughout the building:
Being in the Warrior Underground earlier today was good for your health, assuming you were visiting Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Health Fair 2010. The Health Services Office brought in a variety of vendors and agencies to promote fitness and healthy eating and lifestyles.
Learning Curves put a motorcycle in the WU to encourage motorcycle safety. The Wisconsin Athletic Club took over the Wendorff stage for fitness demonstrations.
The Wauwatosa Police Department had students wear Fatal Vision goggles, then tested their ability to walk, catch a ball, or drive remote-control cars.
Thanks to everyone who visited or participated in Health Fair 2010!
Wisconsin Lutheran College hosted the President’s Welcome Luncheon today. The event gave a group of scholarship recipients (future members of WLC’s Class of 2014, we hope) and their parents the opportunity to spend the day on campus, hear from President Daniel Johnson, and meet professors, coaches, and alumni.
In the Campus Center, Warriors volleyball coach Diana Balsiger talked with a prospective student.
Professor James Holman, along with other education professors and students, spoke to potential education majors in the Chapel.
Prior to lunch, Revelation performed for the high school seniors and their parents in the REX.
The college looks forward to welcoming many of these students to campus in August!
The Curse of an Aching Heart, a Wisconsin Lutheran College theatre department production, opens this weekend in the Raabe Theatre. The performances will be February 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 2010. All performances will take place at 8 p.m. except the 3 p.m. Sunday, February 21 show.
Written by Herbert E. Swayne and directed by Prof. Jan Gompper, The Curse of an Aching Heart (Trapped in a Spider’s Web) is a takeoff on the melodramas that were popular in the late 1800s. Come and boo at the villain and applaud for the hero in this modern treatment of an old-fashioned gay-nineties melodrama. Melody Lane (who will touch your heart like a song) falls into the hands of the villainous Windermere Hightower, who expects her to participate in his criminal schemes. She flees to the None Such Ranch, where she falls in love with the stalwart Lucius Goodenough. Of course, Windermere appears at the ranch and tries to force his attentions on Melody, while also implicating Lucius in a theft. Disguises, dirty deeds, and downright silliness abound in The Curse of an Aching Heart.
The Raabe Theatre is located in the college’s Center for Arts and Performance at 8815 W. Wisconsin Ave. Tickets are $10 adults, $8 seniors and $6 students. To purchase tickets, call the WLC box office at (414) 443-8802 or visit wlc.edu/arts.
Five teams of Wisconsin Lutheran College students are in the final stretch of the Kapco Charitable Challenge: Round 1. The 20-day challenge ends a week from today, then teams will present to a panel of judges on February 16.
Which organizations are benefitting from these teams’ efforts?
Catalyst is supporting Lighthouse Youth Center. Tonight, Catalyst is hosting a benefit concert at 7 p.m. at the Miramar Theatre. All proceeds from the $10 admission will go to the Lighthouse Youth Center.
Project Ripples is supporting Safe Harbor Men’s Shelter. On Saturday, February 13, the team is hosting a “Stuff the Bus” event at Pick ‘n Save, 8151 W. Bluemound Road, Milwaukee, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For a list of items Project Ripples is collecting, visit the group’s Web site.
Team Effect is supporting La Causa.
Greater Than Us: 1000 dollars, 1000 ways is supporting Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin.
Love to Live. Live to Give. is supporting Above the Clouds.
Please visit the sites of the five teams and learn about their missions. Regardless of which team wins the challenge, many people in greater Milwaukee will be postively affected by the work all the teams have done.
It was a busy afternoon yesterday in the lower level of Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Science Hall as the nursing program hosted an open house in its newly completed nursing lab. Visitors included faculty, staff, students, nurse educators from other area schools, and healthcare professionals.
Nursing students and faculty demonstrated the features of five patient simulators, while visitors could feel the “pulse” on the simulators or listen to the “heartbeat.” The lab also includes six individual patient care areas and workstations. The first class of nursing students is scheduled to graduate from WLC in 2012.
Former WLC president Dr. Timothy Kriewall and his wife, Sally (above left), attended the open house. The Sally and Tim Kriewall Scholarship for Nursing Care Excellence was established upon Dr. Kriewall’s retirement from the college to support, acknowledge, encourage and promote students who choose to enter the nursing field.
Welcome to Day 6 of the Kapco Charitable Challenge, in which five groups of Wisconsin Lutheran College students are competing against one another and against groups from Marquette University and Concordia University Wisconsin. Round 1 will last 20 days before a new challenge is issued for Round 2 to the winning team from each college.
At the Challenge’s kickoff event, held at the Bradley Center, Kapco Metal Stamping’s president Jim Kacmarcik gave each group $1,000 and asked the students to help people in the five-county greater Milwaukee area. He also challenged them to turn that $1,000 into something more. Since the kickoff, the student groups have written mission statements, researched local charities, and begun raising money and making an impact. The students truly embody WLC’s Christian leadership tenet.
Kapco Metal Stamping president Jim Kacmarcik challenges WLC students to make an impact.
Part of Kacmarcik’s challenge to the students was to share their mission statements with as many people as possible, to get the word out. This is where you come in. Please take a moment to read the mission statements of WLC’s five student groups at the bottom of our Charitable Challenge page. There you also can view video from the Challenge kickoff, a photo gallery, and links to the groups’ pages on Facebook and Twitter.
If you are so moved, please share the link to these mission statements with people you know. This not only will help the students in their competition, but ultimately will benefit many people in need in the Milwaukee area.
WLC’s student groups:
Greater Than Us: 1000 dollars, 1000 ways
Team Effect
Catalyst
Love to Live. Live to Give.
Project Ripples
Wisconsin Lutheran College's student participants in 2010 Kapco Charitable Challenge
Wisconsin Lutheran College is pleased to announce its newly redesigned Web site, wlc.edu, a project that gives the college’s Web site a fresh and dynamic design.
The goal of the new look is to offer a vastly improved browsing experience for prospective students, as well as for current students, parents, alumni, friends, faculty, and staff. The site also reflects the vibrant visual appeal of the college’s print publications, and its improved streamlined navigation means users will always be just a click or two away from key information.
The project was completed entirely in-house by a collaboration of campus offices that headed by Vicki Hartig, associate vice president of marketing & communication, and included Chad Lindemann, professor of art, Olya Finnegan, web developer, and Eva McGillivray, web & marketing coordinator. During the redesign development, the site was pre-screened by an on-campus group of students, faculty, and staff, as well as by industry professionals.
“We wanted to create a more current and polished design created through clarity of proportional organization, typography, images, and colors,” says Lindemann. “From early reviews, it appears we’ve accomplished that to a large degree.”
The relaunch of wlc.edu comes within a year of other recent Web site launches for WLC including the my.wlc.edu portal and the admissions microsite, www.beawlcwarrior.com. The last redesign of the Web site was in 2005.
The entire conversion process will be accomplished by the end of February 2010. Visitors are welcome to post comments regarding the redesign here on the Beyond the Bricks blog.
Wisconsin Lutheran College students celebrated a WLC Christmas yesterday with music, food, friends, and the Service of Light.
Several ensembles played in the Warrior Underground during WLC Christmas.
Students enjoyed the festivities before final exams begin next week.
It was difficult to keep the tray of ever-popular mozzarella sticks filled.
About 150 students formed a mass choir and orchestra for a moving performance of Hark! The Herald Angles Sing.
The Service of Light concluded with 400-plus participants holding candles during the singing of Silent Night in the chapel.
Wisconsin Lutheran College students from research methods classes in Psychology and Communication presented posters from their class research projects today. The Warrior Underground was crowded with students, faculty, and staff, as the students from PSY411 Experimental Psychology and COM205 Research Methods in Communication explained their research.
Tiisha Pritchard discusses her poster with Professor Wendy Close.
Matthew Lang shares his findings with a fellow student.
Larry Hairl talks with Provost John Kolander.
Wisconsin Lutheran College was a destination for many people tonight who were attending a diverse group of events.
Students, parents, and community members turned out for the opening of Studio 8800, a juried student exhibition in the Schlueter Art Gallery.
Studio 8800 is free and open to the public through January 21, 2010.
Members of the Ella Post Society gathered in the Campus Center for dinner. President Daniel Johnson was on hand to greet these friends of the college. Ella Post members then attended a concert by Boni Pueri, the Czech Boys’ Choir, in the Center for Arts and Performance.
Meanwhile, in the Recreation Complex, the women’s basketball team made its season debut playing Northland in the Dunn’s Sporting Goods Tip-Off Tournament.
The tournament continues Saturday with the Warriors playing Ripon College at 1 p.m., followed by UW-Platteville taking on Northland at 3 p.m.
Today’s Reformation chapel service, titled “The Final Word” (Revelation 22:21), was led by Wisconsin Lutheran College senior John Wendland.
During the service the Chapel Brass, conducted by Professor Terry Treuden, was accompanied on the pipe organ by senior Joel Schwartz.
Thank you to the prospective students and their parents who joined us for worship this morning.
This afternoon we welcomed new assistant professor of nursing Sheryl Scott to Wisconsin Lutheran College. Students and faculty had the opportunity to meet Prof. Scott and learn about the status of the college’s new nursing program.
At the meet-and-greet, director of nursing Rebekah Carey (below right) joined Sheryl Scott and several students who have been admitted to WLC’s first nursing cohort, including Kayla and Melissa (pictured below).
The calendar has turned to October and that means leaves turning colors and time for some FOOTBALL! Wisconsin Lutheran College celebrated its annual Homecoming week September 28-October 3.
Campus-wide events included a mind-blowing show from mentalist Christopher Carter at the Pep Rally Monday night.
The week continued with the always-popular corn roast and Homecoming T-shirt tie-die on Wednesday.
Saturday finally arrived as the alumni football game started the day at Raabe Stadium.
A packed crowd and the Warriors were ready for a battle against Concordia Chicago.
And after a 27-16 win over the Cougars, Dominique Johnson and the Warriors took time to sign autographs for some young fans.
