University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources
Forestry management student wins national championship Ben Hansen, a forestry management major, won the national title at the 2013 STIHL Timbersports Series collegiate championship competition held in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., June 7–9. Hansen won first place in the single buck competition, second place in the standing chop block, third place in the stock saw competition, third place in the underhand chop, and then won the championship by one point. Hansen will compete with the U.S. Timbersports relay team at the world championships in Stuttgart, Germany, October 24–26. He will also compete as a professional in the 2014 STIHL Timbersports series. UW-Stevens Point is one of two schools with two student collegiate timbersports champions. The university has also won four Midwest regional timbersports titles through Adam LaSalle (2009), Andrew Gollnick (BS Forestry Administration and Utilization ‘12) (2010), and Hansen (2011 and 2012).
Student presents at national diversity conference Brittany Ruttenberg, wildlife ecology student and president of the student chapter of Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS), co-presented with Bobbi Kubish, international programs and recruitment coordinator, at “The Future of Diversity in Our Disciplines and Careers: Natural Resources and the Environment” conference held at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va. Ruttenberg discussed the efforts of the UW-Stevens Point student chapter of MANRRS to reach out to students, faculty and staff, and Kubish shared strategies that the college is utilizing to increase enrollment and retention of diverse students in natural resources.
High school students get hands on at Careers in Action Day Paper science and engineering students engaged Mosinee High School chemistry students in the papermaking process as part of the Careers in Action Day. The high school students were able to see firsthand how chemistry ties into the papermaking process. The students worked through six demonstrations focusing on retention/ suspension, fiber length analysis, rheology, paper formation, deinking, and kraft pulping. Students also toured the waste education center and the pilot paper machine plant. from top: Forestry student Ben Hansen won the 2013 STIHL Timbersports Series collegiate championship; Student Brittany Ruttenberg presented on MANRRS at the Future of Diversity in Our Disciplines and Careers national conference held at Virginia Tech. Va.; A Paper Science and Engineering student demonstrates how retention/ suspension works to Mosinee High School chemistry students.
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