Something exciting is taking shape at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. A new online AI Essentials: Strategies for Efficiency & Productivity certificate was recently introduced and will be followed by a new artificial intelligence (AI) minor enrolling for Fall 2026 – one designed to be practical, hands-on and deeply connected to the real-world skills students need for a rapidly changing […]

As the spring semester gets underway at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, students are diving into their new courses and meeting new faculty and friends. In one class offered through the information systems program within the College of Business, students are also meeting ISABEL. While she is not a fellow student or faculty member, her […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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