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Falcon Futures: UW-River Falls alum returns to campus to update landscaping project she created 40 years ago
When Tia Lisa Erickson of Osceola attended the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in the 1980s, she broke ground in a couple ways. She was the first woman to work on the university’s grounds maintenance crew and she created a landscape feature that still stands on the campus mall to this day. Forty years later, Erickson decided to come back and give the landscape an update. “I contacted the department for grounds maintenance asking if I could redo the landscape to make it more of a usable and
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KPT Collaborative founder Kim Peterson to speak at UW-River Falls Oct. 27
The University Business Collaboration Center (UBCC) at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls will host entrepreneur and UWRF alum Kim Peterson, founder of KPT Collaborative, as part of the 2026-2027 Innovators Speaker Series Tuesday, Oct. 27. Peterson will speak at 6 p.m. in room 194 of the Science and Technology Innovation Center (SciTech), 262 E. Cascade Ave. Peterson entered the mortgage business after graduating in 1998. After the 2008 mortgage crash changed the course of her career, she took
