UW-Stout

December 12, 2024

A collaborative initiative focused on adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) through workforce training and industry integration across central and northcentral Wisconsin will launch this week in Wausau. The Central Wisconsin AI Center (CWAIC) will bring together its partners for a media event at 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 1, in the Timberwolf Conference Center, room D100, […]

December 6, 2024

Center for Advanced Manufacturing-AI aims to draw on university expertise to solve problems, collaborate on opportunities Small and midsize manufacturers in Wisconsin and Minnesota have a new resource — and ally — in their quest for growth and success. The Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence — CAM-AI — has been created at UW-Stout to leverage […]

November 22, 2024

In 2010 when the $43 million, gleaming Jarvis Hall Science Wing addition was dedicated at UW-Stout, Gov. Jim Doyle and others called it the finest science facility in the state. By at least one measure, the building with state-of-the-art lab equipment and classrooms is living up to its lofty billing: It has turned out dozens […]

November 5, 2024

In the U.S., 50% of small- and medium-size manufacturers lack basic cybersecurity controls. It’s a major national concern for those companies that work with the U.S. Department of Defense. A valuable new resource, thanks to a $124,555 federal grant awarded to UW-Stout, will help. The 12-month award for 2025 from the U.S. Department of Defense […]

October 25, 2024

Wisconsin projected to need 1,500 more counselors within five years; need in rural schools is critical, professors’ research shows School counselors provide a variety of services for students in the prekindergarten to grade 12 setting, supporting both students’ mental health and academic achievement. However, ongoing challenges across the nation to recruit, hire and retain qualified […]

September 24, 2024

This past spring, twin sisters Ava and Emma talked about their unique paths at UW-Stout They may be twins, but Ava and Emma Cinealis of Sheboygan, Wis., couldn’t have charted more distinct courses at UW-Stout. Both sisters graduated this spring, crediting UW-Stout’s unique polytechnic approach for giving them the foundation for their success, even while […]

September 16, 2024

Kirby Hanson proud to see her team’s product come to life on international athletics stage As UW-Stout alum Kirby Hanson watched the Summer Olympics in Paris from her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, she and her family had a more personal reason to cheer on their nation’s athletes. Hanson, an apparel design and development 2007 graduate, is the […]

August 15, 2024

They discover career paths in microbiology and genetics; develop innovative patterns in fashion design For two weeks in June, 118 area high school students stepped into campus labs at UW-Stout and learned what it’s like to be a student at Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University. In hands-on learning experiences led by faculty, they discovered career paths in science, technology, […]

July 30, 2024

Cross-disciplinary teams present prototypes at Research Day, Engineers Without Borders’ U.S. Grand Finals design challenge Cross-disciplinary students in the Impacts of Engineering course at UW-Stout this spring investigated ways to improve the quality of life for people in the remote forests of eastern Cambodia. Through the Engineers Without Borders’ Design for People Challenge, they worked in teams […]

June 4, 2024

Fourteen capstone movie trailers screened at School of Art and Design Senior Show in May  Traveling 1,200 miles from Menomonie to Anaconda, Mont., nine UW-Stout students recently hiked through snow-dusted mountain meadows, wooded gulches and streams to film a Western short. Loosely inspired by true events, the video production seniors’ capstone project “Ghosts of Gold Creek” is […]