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Capstone is an online magazine published twice annually for alumni and friends of UWL's College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities.

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The UWL College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities’ Capstone is published online in March and November, for more than 8,000 alumni and friends of the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities.

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Penelope Hardy

Penelope Hardy, History, presented "Publishing Maritime, Naval, Oceanographic, and Marine Environmental History for Diverse Audiences" at Canadian Nautical Research Society/Société Canadienne pour la Recherche Nautique and the North American Society for Oceanic History 2024 Conference on June 20 in St Catharines, Ontario. Hardy chaired a roundtable discussion with Katharine Anderson, York University; Benjamin Armstrong, United States Naval Academy; Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology; Lincoln Paine, University of Maine; and Helen Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut.

Submitted on: June 24

Kenneth Shonk

Kenneth Shonk, History, presented "The Future of a Distant Past’: alternative masculinities in 'A Sense of Ireland,' 1980'" at the Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies on Thursday, June 20 in Coláiste Mhuire Gan Smál/Mary Immaculate College, Luimneach/Limerick, Republic of Ireland.

Submitted on: June 20

Penelope Hardy

Penelope Hardy, History, authored the article "Thinking Inside the Box" in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 54, no. 1 (Feb 2024), published on March 15 by the University of California Press. In the essay, Hardy details an experiential in-class exercise she developed for her course HIS 371: Knowing the Oceans to help students grasp the historical difficulties of studying the bottom of the sea.

Submitted on: Mar. 16

Heidi Morrison

Heidi Morrison, History, presented "Lived Resistance Against the War on Palestinian Children" at the Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies on Feb. 23 in a virtual format.

Submitted on: Feb. 27

James Longhurst

James Longhurst, History, presented "Working with Academic Partners" at the Community Transportation Academy Midwest regional training on Feb. 13 online. Professor Longhurst was a guest speaker for a group of transportation-oriented advocacy organizations from across the Midwest. 1000 Friends of Wisconsin was awarded a grant from the GM Climate and Equity Fund to develop Transportation Academy programs across the Midwest for Fall 2024, based on a successful program in Wisconsin. UWL hosted the first-in-Wisconsin Community Transportation Academy in Spring 2023. New programs learning from that experience include BikeWalkKC, Bike Cleveland, 1000 Friends of Iowa, Our Streets Minneapolis, and Transportation Riders United (Detroit). This was one of four training workshops this month to help them prepare, based on the experiences of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin leading CTAs in communities across the state. Longhurst is a member of the board of 1KFriends.

Submitted on: Feb. 14