OpenFieldUW-Parkside · Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UW-Parkside) is a comprehensive public university founded in 1968 on a 700-acre natural prairie and woodland preserve in Kenosha, Wisconsin, midway between Milwaukee and Chicago. Renowned for its pre-health professional placement rates in medical and dental schools, molecular biology, business, and criminal justice, UW-Parkside anchors the Southeast Wisconsin manufacturing and logistics hub.
UW-Parkside comprises four colleges: the College of Natural and Health Sciences, College of Business, Economics, and Computing, College of Social Sciences and Professional Studies, and the College of Arts and Humanities. The campus houses extensive prairie restoration sites and the Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts and Humanities.
Admissions are holistic and test-optional for undergraduate students, evaluating high school core GPA (minimum 2.5). Graduate applicants require an accredited bachelor's degree with a minimum 2.75–3.0 GPA, statement of purpose, two letters of recommendation, and English language proficiency (TOEFL 79+ or IELTS 6.5+).
Research-focused laboratory master's offering advanced training in CRISPR gene editing, next-generation RNA sequencing, computational protein modeling, and recombinant antibody production.
NSA-aligned graduate curriculum teaching security compliance, intrusion analysis, cloud perimeter architecture, cryptography fundamentals, and corporate disaster recovery.
Applied graduate degree leveraging the Chicago-Milwaukee professional sports corridor to train athletic directors, arena operations managers, and sports marketing specialists.
Hands-on geology program studying Lake Michigan coastal bluff erosion, glacial stratigraphy, groundwater aquifer contamination, and GIS spatial hazard mapping.
Pre-health curriculum offering articulated direct-admission pipelines with professional chiropractic and physical therapy doctorates, studying human kinematics and exercise physiology.
AACSB-accredited evening and online MBA curriculum emphasizing logistics supply chain optimization, corporate finance, enterprise data modeling, and strategic marketing.
Professor of Biological Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Higgs investigates chloroplast gene expression, RNA-binding proteins regulating photosynthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and post-transcriptional RNA pr...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Geosciences & Hydrogeology
Department of Geosciences
Dr. Skalbeck conducts research in groundwater hydrogeology, coastal bluff erosion along Lake Michigan, hydrothermal heat flow modeling, and wetland restoration ...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Management Information Systems
College of Business, Economics, and Computing
Dr. Chalasani conducts research on healthcare supply chains, RFID tracking in hospital logistics, cloud computing optimization, and tele-medicine system reliabi...
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