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  1. Global vision, local design: UW-Stout students transform public spaces with murals

    Photo: Allison Seanor's mural "To Travel is to Understand" was created as part of Florence, Italy’s annual Palazzuolo Strada Aperta festival. / Allison Seanor

    August 26, 2025

    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 […]

  2. Cirrus Aircraft, Ashley Furniture benefit from UW-Stout seniors’ engineering solutions

    Photo of UW-Stout engineering student

    August 19, 2025

    Capstone projects tackle mechanical, manufacturing challenges After collectively putting thousands of hours into their capstone projects, the moment of truth arrived in May for seniors in University of Wisconsin-Stout’s manufacturing engineering and mechanical engineering programs when they presented their projects to industry leaders, faculty and their peers. The projects weren’t merely classroom exercises: For seniors in these undergraduate majors, […]

  3. AI flower power: Pondview Lavender Farm joins in professors’ research on agricultural robot

    Photo: Students Aaron Post and Jake See are helping faculty develop an AI brain for the Amiga robot (UW-Stout)

    August 11, 2025

    Use of Amiga robot seeks to ease automation for specialty crop farmers in Wisconsin Tucked right off Highway 29 near Chippewa Falls is a small family farm bursting with scent and color in June and July. Pondview Lavender Farm, owned by UW-Stout operations and management Lecturer Bob Sworski, welcomes folks to pick lavender during the harvest season. […]

  4. Solid success: UW-Stout faculty, student project focuses on low-carbon concrete

    Photo: Student Jeremy O'Connor, top left, and Associate Professor Kevin MacDonald watch concrete pour from a ready-mix truck.

    August 4, 2025

    Environmentally friendly effort uses byproducts to create strong, sustainable concrete An unassuming slab of grey concrete recently poured on the University of Wisconsin-Stout campus is much more than a sidewalk in front of a pair of bus shelters – it’s an example of how engineering can lead the way to a more sustainable, lower-carbon future. […]

  5. Software by UW-Stout professor, students helps international museum collections shine – literally – in 3D

    Photo of UW-Stout Assistant Professor Michael Tetzlaff, at podium, and students Chloe Ferguson and Luke Denney, giving a presentation about Kintsugi 3D at Research Day, May 6, 2025.

    July 16, 2025

    Kintsugi 3D used by Minneapolis Institute of Art, other institutions to capture surface details of heritage objects Software developed at University of Wisconsin-Stout is helping museums around the world preserve pieces of cultural heritage for future generations by creating 3D models that accurately capture every detail of the color, texture and brightness of objects. Kintsugi […]

  6. Camp-Inn kitchen comfort: Industrial design students develop travel trailer solutions

    Photo of UW-Stout camping kitchen prototype

    July 1, 2025

    Necedah-based camping company supports project with real-world application Summer is approaching, and that means vacation time, with many Americans opting to camp in the great outdoors. And while camping offers a sense of freedom in nature, it often includes adapting to limited living quarters, including learning how to prepare and cook a proper meal. This spring, […]

  7. Advancing AI: $647,000 Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. grant will boost UW-Stout CAM-AI effort

    Photo of UW-Stout's Industrial Robotics & Machine Vision Lab, part of the Robert F. Cervenka School of Engineering; the lab is one of the campus labs that will benefit from the WEDC investment.

    June 17, 2025

    University’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence to provide support for small, medium manufacturers A $647,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) will allow University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence – CAM-AI – to provide advanced manufacturing and AI support to small- and medium-sized manufacturers. The newly announced grant is the result […]

  8. Breaking gridiron ground: UW-Stout triumphs in first-ever women’s flag football league sponsored by Minnesota Vikings

    Photo of Quarterback Allison Letcher hoisting the championship trophy following the Blue Devils' victory in the Midwest College Women’s Flag Football League Championship at the Minnesota Vikings' TCO Performance Center April 26.

    June 3, 2025

    Blue Devils finish with 8-3 record, becomes first four-year university in Wisconsin to field a sponsored team   Just a handful of months after being recruited for a brand-new team in a brand-new league, the members of the University of Wisconsin-Stout’s flag football team hoisted a championship trophy April 26 on the field at the […]

  9. An Epic class: Graphic design students collaborate with Epic Systems to improve UX in healthcare software, apps

    Photo of Professor Nagesh Shinde working with UW-Stout graphic design students. Within Professor Shinde’s Healthcare User Experience Design course, students are working with designers at Epic Systems, who serve as mentors for students as they create web, mobile app or kiosk products and services. / UW-Stout

    May 16, 2025

    Industry partnership with one of nation’s largest healthcare software companies aims to impact patients’ quality of life Graphic design and interactive media students at UW-Stout are collaborating with professionals from Epic Systems, one of the nation’s leading healthcare software companies, to improve the user experiences of patients and healthcare providers. Within Professor Nagesh Shinde’s Healthcare User Experience […]

  10. MicroWhat?: UW-Stout student’s social awareness campaign on microplastics wins Minnesota AdFed award

    Photo of UW-Stout student's award-winning ad campaign

    April 30, 2025

    M.F.A. design, graphic design students receive several awards during annual regional competition Plastic is the most prevalent type of marine debris found in the oceans and Great Lakes, with an estimated 33 billion pounds of plastic trash entering the oceans every year. And microplastics – those about the size of a pencil eraser and smaller – come in […]

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