UW-Stout

  1. UW-Stout Veteran Mentorship Program offers peer-to-peer support for student vets

    Photo of UW-Stout student Daniel Amundson, a peer mentor in the Veteran Mentorship Program. The program matches newer student veterans with other student veterans to help set and achieve their academic and personal goals.

    November 11, 2020

    As a military veteran, transitioning back into civilian life can be hard. Add in going to college and some veterans might need a little support from a friend. University of Wisconsin-Stout is the first UW System school to offer a comprehensive, online peer mentorship program for student veterans, according to Sarah Godsave, UW-Stout’s outgoing military […]

  2. Made at UW-Stout door pullers part of student health push

    Photo of plastic door puller, designed by two UW-Stout seniors’ whose engineering skills led to special welcome gift in residence halls.

    October 6, 2020

    At UW-Stout this fall, dozens of COVID-19 safety measures — from new plexiglass barriers to surface disinfection protocols to socially-distanced classrooms and lounges — have been planned and implemented to help keep everyone healthy. The university’s commitment also includes something out of the ordinary, a narrow, molded plastic tool distributed in welcome packs to residence […]

  3. Small manufacturer emerges more efficient after UW-Stout Lean training

    Photo of Mark Sieglaff, C&N vice president, inspecting an order of custom minitrunks for Heart O’ the Hills Camp in Hunt, Texas. C&N Manufacturing

    August 12, 2020

    UW-Stout Manufacturing Outreach Center helps Boyd company improve production process, operations. At C&N Manufacturing in central Wisconsin, the daily arrival of a FedEx semi driver to take away packaged orders should have been a good sign – products were in the pipeline. Business was good. To the trained manufacturing eye, however, there was a problem. […]

  4. UW-Stout graduate urges accepting challenges and making future brighter

    Photo of UW-Stout graduate Madalaine McConville

    June 22, 2020

    UW-Stout graduate, Madalaine McConville, urges fellow graduates to accept challenges and make future brighter. Meet McConville

  5. UW-Stout online labs in computer networking keep students on track

    Photo of UW-Stout junior Joshua Ferkans

    May 19, 2020

    University of Wisconsin-Stout junior Joshua Ferkans misses seeing his professors and fellow students while studying computer networking and information technology this semester. UW-Stout is using alternative learning methods because of the COVID-19 virus. However, his CNIT laboratory class moving to an alternative learning method went smoother than the Roberts resident expected and had some added benefits to […]

  6. UW-Stout helping to address statewide shortage of special education teachers

    Photo of Nick Grunseth, , an Eau Claire TV meteorologist who switched careers to work with special needs teens at Chippewa Falls Senior High School.

    February 11, 2020

    UW-Stout is helping to address a statewide shortage of special education teachers. An alternative certification program has trained a dozen new teachers to date. One of those new teachers is Nick Grunseth, an Eau Claire TV meteorologist who switched careers to work with special needs teens at Chippewa Falls Senior High School.

  7. UW-Stout professor lead author of groundbreaking study on T. rex dinosaur

    Photo of a T. rex dinosaur skeleton

    December 16, 2019

    A groundbreaking study led by UW-Stout materials scientist Elizabeth Boatman explains how, after 66 million years, blood vessels are preserved in the fossil of a T.rex dinosaur displayed at the Smithsonian. Microscopic research on a leg bone sample conducted by five institutions across the U.S. proves that fossils can help unlock secrets to how the […]

  8. U.S. cheese safety, marketing could benefit from UW-Stout research project

    Photo of graduate student Emily Lehmann and Assistant Professor Taejo Kim, who are researching whether some natural cheeses have greater antimicrobial properties against food-borne pathogens like listeria when stored at room temperature.

    October 29, 2019

    The U.S. cheese industry could benefit from a UW-Stout food science project, which won the WiSys Quick Pitch competition this summer. Graduate student Emily Lehmann with Assistant Professor Taejo Kim are researching whether some natural cheeses have greater antimicrobial properties against food-borne pathogens like listeria when stored at room temperature. If so, this could be […]

  9. UW-Stout engineering students help automate box frame production

    Photo of UW-Stout engineering students who are using their knowledge to benefit workers in Wisconsin

    August 22, 2019

    UW-Stout School of Engineering students are using their knowledge to benefit workers in Wisconsin. Students built a system to help automate bed box frame production at the Career Development Center in Eau Claire. The system boosts production, improves safety, and helps workers learn new skills. Manufacturing engineering major Alex Kowalczyk said, “It feels great knowing […]

  10. UW-Stout graduate, veteran ready to move on, embrace new challenges

    Photo of Brent Coulthart

    July 18, 2019

    Brent Coulthart inspired other veterans and students when he graduated May 4 from UW-Stout. Out of money, he dropped out of college a decade ago in Minnesota, then served five years in the Marines as a helicopter mechanic. Using military and disabled veteran benefits, he returned to school and overcame dyslexia with on-campus support to […]

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