University of Wisconsin - Stout

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UW- Stout: LithoTechnics donates software to graphic communications
WisPolitics.com, Feb. 8
UW-Stout has received a donation of 30 software licenses for Metrix, a graphic communications production management system.

Metal manufacturing workers use talents to transform scraps into art
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Feb. 8
For a creative UW-Stout graduate, there’s no such thing as scrap metal.

Local business briefs: Krueger named associate dean at CVTC
Chippewa Herald, Chippewa Falls, Wis., Feb. 8
A UW-Stout graduate has been promoted at Chippewa Valley Technical College.

International UW-Stout student collecting shoes and clothes for Haiti
WEAU TV 13, Eau Claire, Feb. 8
Collection boxes have been set out on campus to help Haiti earthquake survivors.

With 40th major approved, UW-Stout reaches goal
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Feb. 5
The UW System Board of Regents approved a new Bachelor of Science in cognitive science at UW-Stout.

Regents recommend extending differential tuition programs
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Feb. 5
A UW System Board of Regents committee supported the continuation of two UW-Stout programs that charge extra tuition.

Unmasking solutions
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Feb. 5
Menomonie Middle School students displayed their hopes for the future during a march from the Mabel Tainter to UW-Stout.

Tuition going up at UWEC
WQOW TV News 18, Eau Claire, Feb. 5
When tuition increases this fall at UW-Eau Claire, it will be closer to UW-Stout’s.

UW-Stout: Regents recommend extending differential tuition programs
WisPolitics, Madison, Feb. 4
A UW System Board of Regents committee recommended Thursday that the full board approve an extension of two programs at UW-Stout allowing the university to charge higher tuition for additional services and courses.

How will problems affect Toyota?
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Feb. 4
UW-Stout professor Mark Fenton expects Toyota to remain one of the top two car companies, despite its recent problems.

On Campus: Some UW campuses may eliminate programs, new report says
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Feb. 4
A UW-Stout degree was cited as an example of how 60 percent of majors in the UW System are offered at just one campus. Universities now have the option to suspend programs if needed in tight economic times.

Virtual world gets second life
Chippewa Valley Business Report, Chippewa Falls, Winter 2010 edition
UW-Stout experiments with the potential of virtual reality.

UW-Stout residence hall closed for renovation
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Feb. 3
Hovlid Hall won’t reopen until fall because of a $13 million north campus building project.

UW-Stout stepping toward healthier campus
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Feb. 3
The Step It Stout walking program is trying to improve peoples’ lives one step at a time.

UW-Stout students dig through trash to promote recycling
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Feb. 3
RecycleMania demonstration proves that too much waste is being trashed.

UW-Stout construction team headed to finals
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Feb. 2
A student team has earned a trip to San Francisco for the final of a mechanical engineering contest.

Revised report cites Stout with 19 violations
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Feb. 2
UW-Stout has received a new Department of Commerce report, which scales down the number of employee health and safety violations.

Briefcase: NWMOC hires senior engineer
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Jan. 31
Roger Gehring has joined the Northwest Wisconsin Manufacturing Outreach Center at UW-Stout as a senior management engineer.

Virtual student union launched
The Badger Herald, Madison, Feb. 1
UW-Stout is one of four UW System schools where students studying sustainable management can connect via a new virtual student union.

Business briefcase
Green Bay Press-Gazette, Feb. 1
A 2009 UW-Stout graduate has joined the staff of an interior design business.

Around Town Briefs
Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Jan. 29
A UW-Stout student is one of three in the U.S. who received a $1,500 scholarship from a company that provides logistical support for major corporations.

A kid-sized niche
Medical Device Guru online forum, Jan. 29
A UW-Stout industrial design class worked on building an ergonomically friendly prototype for DesignWise Medical.

Wausau’s Black Purl owner, Beth Paustian, has built a life around knitting
Daily Herald, Wausau, Jan. 29
A UW-Stout graduate has found knitting and her knitting business good therapy while dealing with life’s setbacks.

Local political expert talks about State of the Union speech
WEAU TV 13, Eau Claire, Jan. 27
UW-Stout professor Alec Kirby says the odds, historically, of Obama having a successful presidency are not good after he struggled his first year in office.

UW-Stout student designs CaringBridge Web site
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Jan. 26
A graphic design student, as part of an internship, created 50 new theme pages for patients using the CaringBridge Web site.

Mom won’t be charged for leaving baby in car
Chippewa Herald, Chippewa Falls, Wis., Jan. 26
A UW-Stout faculty member won’t face charges for a Jan. 19 incident in which she forgot her 11-month-old child in the car for about six hours while at work.

Black History Month to be celebrated
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Jan. 24
Army Master Sgt. Robert Hicks from UW-Stout will be part of the discussion, Blacks in the Military, Thursday, Feb. 4, at UW-Eau Claire.

Woman who left child in car may face charges
Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Jan. 23
An infant was OK after she was left in a car for six hours at UW-Stout.

TV villain tries to encourage kids to read with area visit
Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Jan. 23
A bookstore in Chippewa Falls was paid a visit by the evil Thorzuul, a character from the “Storylords” TV series, which originally was produced at UW-Stout.

Winter enrollment up at UW-Stout; UW-Stout cuts administrative job
Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Jan. 23
Record winter session enrollment at UW-Stout and a decision by Chancellor Sorensen not to refill a special assistant job were among items in the newspaper’s Chippewa Valley section.

A kid-sized niche
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan. 24
Industrial design students at UW-Stout built a prototype medical tent that helps deliver oxygen to children while they sleep.

Local mom forgets infant was in her car while at work
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Jan. 22
An 11-month-old girl left in a car at a UW-Stout parking lot for about six hours was unharmed.

UW-Stout custodian finds infant in car
Chippewa Herald, Chippewa Falls, Jan. 23

Baby left in car
WKOW TV 27, Madison, Jan. 22

Police had to break car window to rescue baby left in car for hours
WEAU TV 13, Eau Claire, Jan. 22

UW-Stout student receives good, bad news from Haiti
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Jan. 22
Cleandfee Alexandre, a UW-Stout student from Haiti, learned that immediate family members were safe but that extended family and friends perished in the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Agencies work to make returning soldiers aware of benefits
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Jan. 21
UW-Stout counselor Joe Huth says the university is ready to help soldiers make the transition from the battlefield to the classroom.

Student designs CaringBridge Web pages
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Jan. 21
A UW-Stout graphic design student has created 50 new Web theme pages for CaringBridge users.

Finalists named for Chippewa Falls police chief
Chippewa Herald, Chippewa Falls, Jan. 21
Wendy Stelter, a lieutenant in the Menomonie Police Department and a former UW-Stout student, is one of two finalists for Chippewa Falls police chief.

Stout student learns family's fate in earthquake
WEAU TV 13, Eau Claire, Jan. 20
UW-Stout student Cleandfee Alexandre, from Haiti, heard that a brother and sister are safe, but he says an aunt and her family died when their home in Port-au-Prince collapsed.

Horicon library hosts presentation on American gangsters
The Reporter, fdlreporter.com, Fond du Lac, Jan. 20
UW-Stout grad Chad Lewis will present "Wisconsin's Gangster Past" at 6:30 p.m.,Tuesday, Jan. 26. His presentation covers deadly bank robberies, explosive shootouts, brutal murders, daring kidnappings and grisly locations where gangster history lives on.

Students to make masks and march at Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Jan. 20
A Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative event sponsored by UW-Stout, Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts and North Carolina Campus Compact, will involve Menomonie Middle School students talking about who they hope to become and what large-scale problems they hope to address in their lives.

UW Stout chancellor addresses budget constraints
WQOW TV News 18, Eau Claire, Jan. 19
In an address to campus, UW-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen took the opportunity to address growing concerns on how budget cuts are impacting the university.

Bubbling Springs Solar set to work with Organic Valley
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Jan. 18
Bubbling Springs Solar, a former tenant of the UW-Stout Business and Technology Incubator, will join with Organic Valley, a national farmer-owned cooperative of organic family farmers.

Sierra Club: Wis. DNR dragging feet on complaint
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Jan. 18
An environmental group says the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources isn't moving fast enough to address charges of clean-air violations. The Sierra Club says heating plants have been upgraded at UW-Stout and three other UW campuses.

On own, students open art gallery
Pioneer Press, TwinCities.com, Jan. 17
A group of UW-Stout students has opened an art gallery in downtown Menomonie — Gallery 111.

Chancellor to discuss university progress, challenges
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Jan. 15
UW-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen recaps highlights of last semester and talks about issues to be addressed in the coming months in his opening remarks at the January Professional Development Conference.

Haitian student at UW-Stout anxiously awaiting word from his relatives
WEAU-TV 13, Eau Claire, Jan. 14
A Haitian foreign exchange student studying at UW-Stout anxiously awaits word from his relatives in Port Au Prince.

Farms may turn to solar to cut energy costs
FOX 21 Online, Wisconsin Public Radio, Jan. 14
Bubbling Springs Solar, now producing its own solar thermal collectors, got its start in the UW-Stout Business and Technology Incubator.

Student fears worst for relatives, homeland
Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Jan. 14
Cleandfee Alexandre, a UW-Stout student who was born in Haiti, is praying that his sister and other relatives who live in Port-au-Prince survived the earthquake Tuesday.

Local soldier leads Afghan mission
Superior Telegram, Superior, Jan. 14
UW-Stout grad, Col. Patrick Gallagher is leading efforts to mentor the Afghan National Army.

Area troops' safe return a relief to many
Coulee News, West Salem, Jan. 14
Sgt. Daniel Streicher, a student at UW-Stout, will return from his deployment in Iraq later this month. His mother is eager to see him and to resume eating pasta and potatoes which she had given up during his deployment.

Enerson-Matthews excels on, off court
Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Jan. 13
Jerrel Enerson-Matthews, a high-scoring senior guard, talks about his basketball career and community service work as a UW-Stout student.

Chancellor cites budget in office reorganization
WQOW TV News 18, Eau Claire, Jan. 13
UW-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen has decided to reorganize his office and eliminate one position because of the state of Wisconsin's ongoing budget difficulties.

Earthquake hits close to home for Stout student
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Jan. 13
UW-Stout student Cleandfee Alexandre, the university’s only Haitian-born student, is hoping, watching and waiting for news from home.

Institute for Pediatric Innovation (IPI) and Its Pediatric ...
Earthtimes, Institute for Pediatric Innovation, Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 13
DesignWise Medical, working in conjunction with students at the University of St. Thomas and the UW-Stout, is developing a transilluminator.

Star-spangled happiness: Mother's prayers are answered
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Jan. 12
Justin Utpadel, a 2006 UW-Stout graduate, has returned from his second deployment to Iraq with his National Guard unit.

More students going to class during Winterm at UW-Stout
WQOW TV News 18, Eau Claire, Jan. 11
UW-Stout reports a record number of students enrolled during its winter session.

Solar Thermal Collector Manufacturer Located in Wisconsin
SolarThermalMagazine.com
The idea for Bubbling Springs Solar began in a barn near Menomonie. Today it is the only manufacturer of solar thermal collectors in Wisconsin. Jerome Johnson, UW-Stout Center for Innovation, and Randy Hulke, director of the Stout Technology Transfer Institute, helped the Bubbling Springs team find space at the UW-Stout incubator in 2007.

UW-Stout holds financial aid night
WQOW TV News 18, Jan. 11
UW-Stout’s Financial Aid Office held financial aid night Jan. 11.

Record number of students taking classes during UW-Stout's winter period
WEAU TV 13, Eau Claire, Jan. 11
The number of students taking classes during UW-Stout's winter interim period sets a record.

University of Wisconsin Extension Career Director Interview: Green Is Here To Stay
City Town Info Education Channel, Jan. 11
Robin MacDonald of UW-Extension's online Bachelor of Science in sustainable management program is interviewed about the collaborative program between extension and four UW campuses, UW-Parkside, UW-River Falls, UW-Stout and UW-Superior.

Good art (and good karma) are in the numbers
Main Street of Menomonie, Inc., Menomonie, Jan. 11
UW-Stout student Hannah Schroeder has recruited fellow art students and local artists to join her in launching Menomonie's newest art gallery.

Three to join EC ski club Hall of Fame
Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Jan. 11
Doug Wahl, chief information officer at UW-Stout, has been inducted into the Eau Claire Ski Club’s Hall of Fame.

New art gallery opening in Menomonie
WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Jan. 11
UW-Stout student Hannah Schroeder has recruited fellow art students and local artists to join her in launching Menomonie's newest art gallery tonight.

Community working together can affect change
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Jan. 10
Clean water is an issue that the public takes very seriously, as noted by the cooperative efforts of the lake association, lake residents, and UW-Stout students and faculty over the past year.

Lawmakers consider Commerce audit request
Daily Reporter, Milwaukee, Jan. 7
Martin Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, is asking the state Legislature’s Joint Committee on Audit to look into the state Commerce Department’s enforcement of workplace safety after the department cited UW-Stout for seven asbestos-removal violations during campus projects in 2009.

Weather's diversity to be portrayed at the Center for the Visual Arts
Wausau Daily Herald, Wausau, Jan. 7
Daniel Atyim, art and design, is a judge for the exhibition “Midwest Seasons" to open Jan. 15. More than 50 artists from across North America will portray the diversity of changing seasons in this exhibit at the Center for the Visual Arts in Wausau.

APG Cash Drawer Announces Marketing Team Addition
Business Solutions Magazine, Jan. 7
Breanna Malles graduated from UW-Stout in 2008 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in graphic design. As of November 2009, she is the new marketing coordinator at APG Cash Drawer, based in Minneapolis. Malles served as an intern at the company in March of 2009.

Your Investments: Attention women - avoid these common money mistakes
Jerusalem Post, Jan. 7
Sandra Claflin-Chalton, who teaches economics at UW-Stout, is quoted in this article.

New Sacred Heart Hospital board of directors member appointed
WQOW TV News 18, Eau Claire, Jan. 6
Julie Furst-Bowe, provost at UW-Stout, is a member of the Sacred Heart Hospital Board of Directors.

AmeriCorps/VISTA member works at UW-Stout
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Jan. 6
Jacob Vennie-Vollrath, an AmeriCorps VISTA member, is a coordinator in the Involvement and Leadership Center at UW-Stout.

Ingenico names Deborah Dixson SVP, security solutions, North America
Finextra.com, Jan. 5
Deborah Dixson, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree from UW-Stout in 1978, has been named Ingenico senior vice president of security solutions for retail and banking clients in North America.

PGCC now Partnering with the University of Wisconsin-Stout
WorldGolf.com, Jan. 4
The Professional Golfers Career College, which offers an associate degree in professional golf management, has partnered with UW-Stout to give students the opportunity to pursue a bachelor’s degree in golf enterprise management.

Baldrige theory into practice: a generic model
Emerald Fulltext, International Journal of Educational Management, 2007
UW-Stout’s reception and use of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award model process is documented by Mohammed Arif of the British University in Dubai.