MINDS@UW: Recent submissions
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Underserved : Retail Access in Milwaukee County
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Digital Touchpoints (Issue #3, Fall 2025)
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-12)The increased mediation of digital technologies in all sectors of our global society naturally impacts teaching and learning practices and norms in today’s P-12 classrooms. As a teacher educator who primarily teaches ... -
A Systematic Review of Smart Recovery, LifeRing, and Women for Sobriety Mutual Help Groups for Alcohol Use Disorders : Outcomes, Moderators, and Mechanisms of Change
(2025-04)Alcohol use disorders (AUD) are a critical public health issue in the United States linked to elevated morbidity and mortality. Mutual help groups (MHGs), which provide peer advice and support, are among the most widespread ... -
Longitudinal Comparison of Models to Predict Match Outcomes in the WTA
(2025-04)Analytics have been less utilized in women’s professional tennis (WTA), compared to other professional sports. Despite unique difficulties in predicting match outcomes, there has been a spate of recent articles that utilize ... -
Dashcam Image Object Detection System with Deep Learning : YOLOv10 for Vehicle Information
(2025-04)As the use of car dashboard cameras (dashcams) has increased, the availability of dashcam imagery has also increased. In recent years, dashcam imagery has been predominantly used in conjunction with computer vision techniques ... -
Sensitivity Analyses for Missing Not at Random Data in Body Donor Program Studies
(2025)Missing data on socioeconomic variables, such as education and occupation, is a common issue in survey studies and can be Missing Not at Random (MNAR), where the likelihood of missingness depends on the unobserved value ... -
Oral History Interview, Teonna Cooksey (2521)
(2025-08-26)In her August 2025 interview with Dadit Gunarwanto Hidayat, Teonna Cooksey, WiscAMP alum and CEO of Mecca Development, describes her journey through the WiscAMP program at UW-Milwaukee. She grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ... -
Oral History Interview, Kobina Intsiful (2539)
(2025-08-26)In his August 2025 interview with Dadit Gunarwanto Hidayat, WiscAMP alum Kobina Intsiful outlines his background and professional career, as well as his experiences with WiscAMP STEM Inspire at UW-Milwaukee. Kobina Intsiful ... -
Creating Cosmic Context: Investigating the Impacts on Students and Families in a Montessori Elementary Classroom through the Implementation of Cosmic Task Connections
(2026)The purpose of this unconventional study was to examine the effects of creating context regarding the Cosmic Task in the Montessori Lower Elementary classroom. The intentionally delivered environmental (materials and ... -
EXPERIENCED MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS: OVERCOME CHALLENGES TO RECLASSIFY
(2026)This literature review presents a middle school instructional unit demo designed to help Experienced Multilingual Learners (EMLs), also referred to as Long-Term English Learners (LTELs), in developing the academic language ... -
The biogeography and systematics of xylariaceous fungi on Polynesian islands
(2025)Xylariaceous fungi are important wood decomposers but are also among the most well-documented endophytic macrofungi in plants, lichens, and algae. Nearly no knowledge exists of the evolutionary origins of xylariaceous fungi ... -
Optimizing underwater camera sampling to assess overwintering backwater fish habitat on the Upper Mississippi River
(2025)Gear limitations imposed by ice conditions in temperate regions have created a significant knowledge gap regarding the winter habitat use of the backwater fish assemblage. We developed and optimized an underwater camera ... -
Evaluating Lake Sturgeon Spawning Site Use and Relative Contribution of Tributary Spawning Groups to Harvest in the Lake Winnebago System
(College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-12)The Lake Winnebago System (LWS) population in east-central Wisconsin represents one of the largest self-sustaining populations of lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens in North America that supports an annual spearing fishery ... -
Ectoparasite Ecology and Disease Exposure in Black-Footed Ferrets (Mustela nigripes) and Associated Mammals in Conata Basin/Badlands National Park, South Dakota
(College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-12)The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes; ferret), one of North America’s most endangered mammals, persists within prairie dog (Cynomys spp.) burrow systems where disease remains a major obstacle to their recovery. While ... -
Reading Our Place, Writing for Change: Using Critical Literacy as a Pathway to Integrate Sustainability Literacy into Elementary Language Arts
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-12)Addressing sustainability challenges requires individuals to use language to share ideas, raise awareness, and advocate for change; however, reading and writing skills are often overlooked in sustainability education, and ... -
See, Hear, and Understand: Benchmarking Audiovisual Human Speech Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models
(2025)"Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are expected to jointly interpret vision, audio, and language, yet existing video benchmarks rarely assess fine-grained reasoning about human speech. Many tasks remain visually ... -
Dynamic changes in Hox Gene Expression during Somite and Neural Tube Development
(2025)"Mammalian embryonic development is when body pattern is established and all organs are formed. Hoxa5 is expressed in lung, neural tube, somites, diaphragm, foregut, midgut, and patterns the cervical-thoracic region of ... -
The Politicization of VNSAs in the Middle East
(2025)This thesis investigates the lack of politicization of terrorist organizations in the Middle East, a finding derived from the End of Terror database on terrorist groups. This research was inspired by Jones and Libicki’s ... -
Oral History Interview, Marion Greaser (1706)
(2017-04)In his two 2017 interview sessions with Joan Parrish, Emeritus Professor of Animal and Meat Science Marion Greaser discusses his education and career spent at UW-Madison. In his first interview, Greaser discusses his early ... -
Pollination behavior of solitary ground-nesting bees in Wisconsin’s Driftless area and beyond
(2025)Solitary ground-nesting bees offer essential services as pollinators of native plants and crops. Despite their important ecological, agricultural, and economic contributions, there is relatively little known about their ...