UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
The Undergraduate Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity (URSCA) office benefits from generous contributions by The DeLonais Foundation. The donations are providing students with research experiences at UWRF.
“Upon seeing both the caliber of the students doing research with their high level of involvement on campus and the leadership within the program, it became a no brainer to provide support to URSCA,” said Kathy DeLonais, president of The DeLonais Foundation.
Among the recent purchases enabled by The DeLonais Foundation are two movable SMART Boards, which enhance training experiences and collaboration in the classroom. The 70-inch interactive, touchscreen SMART Boards provide new ways for students to interact as they develop grant writing and review skills, examine research problems and methodologies, analyze research budgets and develop dissemination plans, according to URSCA Director Lissa Schneider-Rebozo.
Funding from The DeLonais Foundation is also used for the UWRF Summer Scholars. The Summer Scholars program includes a series of weekly workshops on everything from Research Ethics to Presentation and Networking Skills because of the Foundation.
“Gifts such as those have enabled what is a very new office to become far more than we had initially thought possible, and our students are the beneficiaries," Schneider-Rebozo said.
Kathy DeLonais '73
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