University of Wisconsin-Parkside

human protein samples in the weightlessness of space, in the hope that the crystals will provide new information about the structure of proteins.
In September 1991, UW–Parkside baseball coach Ken Oberbruner, who compiled a 332–229 record as coach from 1970 to 1991, died. His son Jamey was inducted into the UW–Parkside Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995 for his baseball career from 1978 to 1981.
In July 1992, two UW–Parkside connected race walkers competed in the Summer Olympics in Barcelona; 1989 alumna Michelle Marter-Rohl finished 20th, and Debi Spino-Lawrence, a member of the university's race walking team, finished 26th. Marter-Rohl went on to compete in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, finishing 14th in the 10k race, the best US finisher. In the fall of 1992, UW–Parkside history professor Thomas Reeves published A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy, which spent several weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. Around the same time the university began hosting a national computer Olympics. …