Archives - January - 2026

Following a successful first semester of classes, new artificial intelligence majors at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire continue to take shape and position students for promising futures. As the only Universities of Wisconsin school currently offering bachelor of arts and bachelor of science programs in AI, Blugolds are enjoying unmatched classroom and research experiences. There […]

As an instructor of documentary filmmaking at UW-Stout, Assistant Professor Keif Oss’s professional interests in artificial intelligence (AI) filmmaking center on tools that can meaningfully inform and streamline the creative process.  Oss, program director of video production, is currently using AI to explore a conceptual documentary based on his grandfather’s World War II journal from the Battle […]

When Royal Credit Union, one of Wisconsin’s leading financial institutions with 330,000 members and 28 locations in Wisconsin and Minnesota, wanted to explore ways to use artificial intelligence to make informed business decisions based on data, the result was an innovative multi-campus internship program involving students and faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, UW-River Falls […]

AI Essentials: Strategies for Efficiency & Productivity is an online artificial intelligence certificate designed for professionals, educators, and students who want practical, non-technical AI skills to improve workplace productivity, decision-making, and ethical technology use.

Three Universities of Wisconsin campuses 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. Read more: Student  story | Faculty story | Economic development story. While acknowledging the many unknowns and the rapidly changing landscape […]

If you picture working with artificial intelligence involving sitting in front of a computer at a desk in an office, Brandt Berghuis, a University of Wisconsin-River Falls assistant professor of crop science, can introduce you to a whole new world.  “AI is really transforming agriculture,” Berghuis said. “Things are changing really fast, especially in the field. We have drones now that fly over fields and use AI to do […]

Three Universities of Wisconsin campuses partnered with Royal Credit Union to launch an innovative internship program using AI to support this Wisconsin-based financial institution. This story is one of four in a series showcasing the impact of this collaboration. Read more about the faculty who supported the internship, how the partnership supported the state’s economic development and how the […]

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 in a model that could actively impact their institution and another that created a […]

When UW-Eau Claire senior Michael Collins saw a new interdisciplinary course offered in the Mark Stephen Cosby Honors College, he was excited to enroll. Among the classes for fall 2025 was the second iteration of Honors 118: Chemical Computing and AI in Healthcare, taught by Dr. Sudeep Bhattacharyay, professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

Assistant Professor Fatma Karaman Kabadurmus, with UW-Stout’s social science department, researched how digital technologies and emerging tools, often described as “AI-enabled” or part of Industry 4.0, are reshaping how firms innovate, manage supply chains and compete in today’s economy. A central focus of this work is how digitalization helped firms respond to the unprecedented disruptions of the