Murphy Library News

By Mike Olson 

A graduate thesis or dissertation is the culminating achievement of years of rigorous study and collaboration between students and university departments where research findings are presented, adding to and extending the scholarship of a student’s chosen field.  

Each year graduate students at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse have their theses and dissertations bound, cataloged and archived in Murphy Library Special Collections where they are available for future generations. Students can also choose to have electronic copies cataloged and uploaded to MINDS@UW. Recreation management related titles are also uploaded to OregonPDF in Health & Performance. Through these online repositories, UWL student theses and dissertations are discoverable and accessible to a wide audience of researchers and scholars. 

Murphy Library would like to congratulate all the UWL students who completed a thesis or dissertation this past year. It is no easy feat, made even more difficult by a pandemic, and we are proud of your hard work and dedication. This year’s student scholarship included a wide range of research topics in a variety of academic fields, from biology to kinesiology, and consists of topics such as the efficacy of specific exercises on various populations, the perceptions of student athletes, assessments of current strategies in the health field, and outcomes of teacher training strategies. To learn about all this research and more, visit MINDS@UW.