Archives - January - 2026
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UW-Stout professor develops unique approach to chatbot use in pharmacology, human biology
Professor Jennifer Grant, with UW-Stout’s biology department, has been curious about how well everyday chatbots dispense health information, including pharmacology advice and influences on human health. “You sometimes hear that these tools can give distorted or misleading answers, and that’s what first caught my attention,” she said. To quell her curiosity, Grant began several lines of AI
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UW-Stout course sets AI-use as baseline competency in filmmaking
This summer at UW-Stout, students in a new AI Assisted Film and Video Production course will use AI tools from pre-production concepts to completion, generating scripts, storyboards, shot lists, visual effects, video, music, voice-overs and sound effects to produce a short film. With the course, UW-Stout video production faculty are establishing AI use in filmmaking as a baseline competency. […]
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High-performance computing clusters at UW-Eau Claire key in AI innovation
Fifty years after Seymour Cray unveiled his Cray-1 supercomputer in Chippewa Falls, technology advancements at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire are creating more extraordinary opportunities for students and faculty to conduct deep research using artificial intelligence. From improved drug screening to faster cancer detection and improved crop yields, Blugolds are producing results in AI research […]
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UW-River Falls master’s program in computer science prepares professionals for AI-driven careers
“We are an example of an organization that is all in on AI in every respect,” Edwards said of AGS Data Systems, the company he founded in River Falls in 1999. “Every employee we have is provided with multiple AI tools, whether they are in sales and marketing, training and development, software or technology development. We are […]
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On the vanguard: An artificial intelligence filmmaking course emerges at UW-Stout
A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assisted Film and Video Production course will launch at UW-Stout in summer 2026. The course, possibly a first-of-its-kind in the Universities of Wisconsin, was developed by a video production faculty trio – Keif Oss, Jonny Wheeler and Co O’Neill. Students in the course will produce a short narrative film, using AI tools from pre-production concepts
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UWM researchers turning to AI to design more efficient rechargeable batteries
MILWAUKEE — With rechargeable batteries in high demand because of electric vehicles, consumer electronics and renewable energy storage, researchers at UW-Milwaukee are using artificial intelligence to try and make them stronger and more efficient.
