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Student team builds functional nonstandard pallet stacker to be implemented, replicated in company’s facilities A team of engineering students at UW-Stout designed an innovative nonstandard pallet stacker for Arcadia-based Ashley Furniture, which plans to quickly implement the machine in its facilities.  Within their Senior Design Experience II capstone course, the team was tasked with building a […]

Projects result in innovative way to search course bulletin, play digital Othello board game UW-Stout’s 360-degree AI education approach prepares graduates to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving workforce by embedding artificial intelligence training in all of its degree programs. For two groups of applied mathematics and computer science students in an Advanced Machine Learning course, their final projects resulted […]

Three Universities of Wisconsin universities partnered with Royal Credit Union to launch an innovative internship program using artificial intelligence to support a local business. This story is one of four in a series showcasing the impact of this collaboration.

Construction, interior design, technology education majors build garden products for senior living home residents In a cross-disciplinary collaboration, four groups of students in Lecturer James Bunkelman’s Light Construction Methods class are designing and building two raised garden beds, one raised tool bench and one raised tool holder for a senior living home. The project is part […]

Packaging professor and student identify sustainable insulation option Faculty-student research conducted this fall in University of Wisconsin-Stout packaging labs is poised to help a Wisconsin business deliver its tasty but temperature-sensitive goods coast to coast.  Associate Professor Xiaojing “Kate” Liu of UW-Stout’s packaging program worked with Madison-based Tricky Foods to test the insulating abilities of two eco-friendly packaging […]

Mid-State Technical College leader honed skills at UW-Stout Shelly Mondeik followed a nontraditional path to becoming a college president – a path that ran through UW-Stout and led her to be named one of Wisconsin’s top female leaders. Mondeik earned an associate’s degree after graduating from high school and immediately went to work in the […]

Graduate students visit Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School; learn how language, culture directly impact students The shortage of school staff in Wisconsin extends beyond teachers in the classroom. The shortage of school psychologists, who advocate for students’ behavioral, mental and emotional needs, has a significant impact on schools and students. “When school psychologists are stretched too thin, […]

Blue Devils win first WIAC title since 2016, earn NCAA bid The UW-Stout women’s golf team’s victory this month at the conference championship, where they triumphed by a near-record margin, isn’t the culmination of a season: It’s a sign of things to come for a young, focused and talented Blue Devils team. Sophomore Julia Imai and junior Brin Neumann placed […]

Cayanna Erickson says interning with the 2025 Red Cedar Basin Monitoring Group will give her a step up when she enters the job market. The UW-Stout undergraduate recently declared an Environmental Science major, and the summer internship gave her experience with hands-on field work. “My career goals involve water monitoring, specifically in the Eau Claire […]

Art installations in Italy, Minnesota bring communities together Two UW-Stout students – Allison Seanor and Megan McDowell – recently completed two murals, half a world apart. Their public installations celebrate how art brings communities together, creating vibrant and welcoming spaces. Seanor, an art education major from Wausau, studied abroad at Accademia Italiana in Florence, Italy, last spring. She participated in a […]