1. Student-built Buzz Digital simulation has potential to help manufacturers nationwide

    Photo of Ted Theyerl, an engineer and Lean facilitator with UW-Stout’s Manufacturing Outreach Center, who envisioned Buzz Digital during the pandemic after watching his son play a video game. / UW-Stout

    Program is innovative, game-based approach to teaching Lean principles The Manufacturing Outreach Center at UW-Stout is focused on helping small manufacturers around the region improve their operations and become more successful. In 2020, however, the center was limited by COVID-19: Employees couldn’t go to work sites to help train companies in the proven, industry-leading method […]

  2. UW-Stout’s limnology center helps bring clear water back to region’s lakes

    Photo of (from left) intern Heidi Lieffort, CLRR Director Bill James and CLRR Manager Mai Lia Vang sampling water from Horse Creek, which flows into Cedar Lake in Polk County. / UW-Stout

    Analysis, treatment planned again this summer, including at Half Moon in Eau Claire and lakes in Polk County This summer, people who use Half Moon Lake in Eau Claire, Long Lake in Polk County and other lakes in western Wisconsin and Minnesota likely won’t realize that they are reaping the benefits of the Wisconsin Idea. […]

  3. Blue Devil gymnasts’ flip-for-Ukraine challenge lands national attention

    Photo of members of UW-Stout’s gymnastics team promoting their #stuckflipforabuck fundraiser for the people of Ukraine. The challenge started at UW-Stout and has spread nationally. / Kailyn Westbrook

    #stuckflipforabuck created by coach catches on with university teams, clubs across the U.S. Competitive gymnasts in the U.S. are flipping — literally — for a fundraising challenge started by University of Wisconsin-Stout’s women’s gymnastics team to help provide humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine. Blue Devil Coach Becky Beaulieu initially asked her gymnasts to […]

  4. New UW-Stout cybersecurity major aims to take a bite out of internet crime

    Photo of Professor Holly Yuan instructing students in a computer networking lab at UW-Stout. / UW-Stout

    Cybersecurity has become an issue of personal, national and international concern, with internet attacks harming individuals, businesses, government institutions and drawing scrutiny in U.S. elections. Americans lost $6.9 billion in cyber crime in 2021, according to the FBI. Graduates from a new program at University of Wisconsin-Stout will be ready to help. A Bachelor of […]

  5. UW-Stout’s School of Education working to fill statewide need for teachers

    Photo of technology education students work on a project at UW-Stout. / UW-Stout

    Shortages grew during pandemic; university offers seven undergraduate programs Help wanted: Teachers. Across the United States the teaching profession, one historically considered critical to the future of the country, has been struggling to find the next wave of educators or simply to fill existing positions. The number of students going into college teacher education programs […]

  6. High schoolers jump into freshwater science

    Photo of high school student Quienten Anger measuring nitrate value in the Chippewa River with Professor J. Brian Mahoney. Willow Anderson in the background.

    Summer program provides hands-on experiences studying lakes, rivers and streams throughout Wisconsin. What’s the best way to get high school students interested in water sciences? Get their feet wet, literally. That’s just what 14 students did last summer when they participated in the Freshwater Science Summer Field Experience, funded by a grant through the Freshwater […]

  7. UW-Stout lab renovations include new maker space for fashion, engineering students

    At University of Wisconsin-Stout, Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University, all of the academic programs have an experiential learning component. For students from seven of those programs, the applied learning and collaborative experiences will be even more robust for years to come with the completion of a $3 million lab and facilities renovation project. The centerpiece of the […]

  8. UW-Stout’s Teach Day encourages high school students to explore teaching career

    Photo of high school students from throughout Wisconsin who visited UW-Stout Nov. 15 to learn about careers and opportunities in teaching as part of a pilot program called Teach Day. / Photos by Chris Cooper

    Pilot project allows a dozen Wisconsin high schoolers to learn from UW-Stout students About a dozen Wisconsin high school students visited University of Wisconsin-Stout on Nov. 15 to learn how they could impact future generations. The students came to explore teaching as a career during Teach Day, a university pilot program. Students from Eau Claire, […]

  9. UW-Stout interior design faculty, students become part of the safe, healthier buildings movement

    Photo of (from left) UW-Stout interior design professors Julie Peterson, Nicolette Brehm and Shelley Pecha, who recently became WELL accredited professionals. / UW-Stout

    Three professors, eight students pass international WELL certification There’s good reason why buildings, from homes to work spaces to stores, should be safe and have healthy interior environments — humans are indoors about 90% of their lives. “The environments they spend their time in have a direct impact on their overall well-being,” said Nicolette Brehm, […]

  10. UW-Stout science alum created first new blue in 240 years

    Photo of Andrew Smith and a YInMN sample / Andrew Smith

    Material chemist Andrew Smith co-invented YInMN, now a Crayola color Andrew Smith enjoys color and science, asking questions like, what causes color? How is color formed? How are pigments made? Combining his interests in graduate school at Oregon State University gave him a new perspective. “I started to understand what color was and how to […]