1. UW-Stout’s Child and Family Study Center looks to strengthen Wisconsin’s child care workforce

    Photo of the Child and Family Study Center, which helps train future teachers, counselors and dietitians to build Wisconsin's child care workforce and support families. / UW-Stout

    Center at the heart of Heritage Hall project provides critical career training through community service Families from around Wisconsin are facing significant shortages of quality child care programs, caused in large part by a shortage of licensed early childhood staff. UW-Stout is committed to building the state’s child care workforce through its Child and Family […]

  2. Fully focused: UW-Stout video production majors gaining industry experience

    Photo of UW-Stout student Delaney Hoffman looking through a viewfinder at Cinequipt on an Arri Alexa camera, used for high-end motion imaging.

    Class tours Cinequipt in Minneapolis; student’s videography business receives two national honors Being ready to step into a career is one of the hallmarks of an education at UW-Stout. A group of video production majors, including one already working professionally, are a couple of steps closer to that reality. Recently, students in the Advanced Video Production class […]

  3. UW-Stout special programming will benefit Boys & Girls Club middle school students

    Photo of students in a summer camp looking over a project in UW-Stout’s Fab Lab. Middle school students from the Boys & Girls Club in Menomonie will take part in Tech Tuesdays this spring. / UW-Stout

    University collaboration is part of club’s grant to engage children through hands-on learning Middle school students from the Menomonie’s Boys & Girls Club will learn about cool technology and eating healthy thanks to a new collaborative grant with University of Wisconsin-Stout. To help engage children in Menomonie, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Greater Chippewa […]

  4. Nine UW-Stout students present applied research at annual state Capitol event

    Photo of food science major Caitlyn Lisota working in a Heritage Hall lab on E. coli test kits, part of her research presented at the state Capitol.

    Research in the Rotunda includes food science major explaining work on consumer and commercial test kits for E.coli and coliforms A research spotlight shone on nine UW-Stout students on Wednesday, March 8, at the state Capitol, including one whose efforts could help make water safer to drink and food safer to eat. Dozens of UW […]

  5. UW-Stout’s polytechnic approach could boost recruiting efforts in India

    New in-country recruiter Pednekar impressed with labs, campus, friendliness during weeklong visit Whether in Mumbai, New Delhi or any other city across the vast nation of India, Anagha Pednekar could have a distinct advantage when it comes to recruiting students for UW-Stout. It’s the polytechnic advantage, the applied learning and career-focused higher education that sets […]

  6. On the upswing: Growing state golf industry reinforces need for GEM program graduates

    Photo of UW-Stout golf enterprise management students learn about course management issues from Professor Kris Schoonover. / UW-Stout

    Wisconsin has long been known for its great cheese, cranberries, beer and sausage, but in the past couple of decades it has become a destination for something else: Great golf. In 2021, the state had seven of the top 50 public courses, best in the U.S., drawing tourists from around the country and world. More […]

  7. Brush with fame: UW-Stout’s Tozer paints in semifinals of U.K. portrait reality show

    Photo of Assistant Professor Tim Tozer talking in his Drawing 1 course at UW-Stout. (UW-Stout)

    Art professor stands out during popular national competition in his native country As an assistant professor of art at UW-Stout for the past 13 years, Tim Tozer has spent many an hour in the classroom observing and commenting on the work of his students. The professor, who has exhibited his art in five U.S. states […]

  8. High impact: UW-Stout assistant professor helps unlock a key to energy-efficient skyscrapers

    Photo of skyscrapers. Using photovoltaic windows could make skyscrapers much more energy-efficient, according to a new national study co-authored by UW-Stout Assistant Professor Vincent Wheeler. / National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Dennis Schroeder

    Use of photovoltaic windows could significantly cut energy use and CO2 emissions, national lab study finds Skyscrapers dominate city skylines, but these massive glass-walled structures can be made more energy efficient through the addition of thermally efficient photovoltaic — PV — windows, according to an analysis by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National […]

  9. UW-Stout professor among ‘strong community of women’ leading the way in cybersecurity

    Photo of Professor Holly Yuan showing female CNIT students computer servers in a lab in Micheels Hall. / UW-Stout

    Professor Yuan introduces program’s hands-on approach, encourages students to apply for Department of Defense scholarship During national Cybersecurity Awareness Month, UW-Stout cybersecurity faculty and students represented the university on panel discussions and explored the growing dynamics and diversity in the field. Holly Yuan, program director of computer networking and information technology, represented UW-Stout on a […]

  10. UW-Stout professor re-creates area landscape features to inspire award-winning digital art

    Image of UW-Stout award-winning digital art

    ‘After Arcadia’ wins juried art prize at M+DEV Midwest Game Developers conference The natural environment of west-central Wisconsin helped inspire an award-winning piece of 3D art created by a UW-Stout game design professor. Andrew Williams’ still image of ancient ruins, “After Arcadia,” won the juried art contest at the M+DEV Midwest Game Developers conference held recently at […]