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Jingyi Xu and Xinyue Wu, international students in the food science and technology program.

Food science as a cultural gateway: program welcomes 17 international students

Students from China appreciate safe environment and global experience

Scenes like this, with students picking up multiple printed textbooks, are becoming a thing of the past at ��.

Long lines for textbooks becoming thing of the past as digital takes hold

One of the rites of passage for a college student is to wait in line to pick up textbooks, then stuff the often heavy, hardcover tomes into a backpack.

Nicole Eastman, pictured outside the Qube, in Merle M. Price Commons, is the new program coordinator for �� LGBTQIA+ program. / �� photos by Pam Powers

Comic exhibit, film screening and local author part of community events this spring

Reading Across Campus features virtual talks on LGBTQIA+ themes and character relations

�� students in the Natural History of the Neotropics course, along with professors Mike Bessert, front on ground, and Steve Nold, second from right in back, stop in front of a giant strangler fig tree while in Belize in January.

Winter science course takes students on eye-opening tour of Belize

For Brianna O’Brien, it wasn’t just when class members hiked four miles up a mountain, guided by a naturalist, to breathtaking views of a double waterfall.

Megan Copeland, of St. Michael, Minn., is a second-year student at �� majoring in marketing and business education.

Minnesota student and alum discover home away from home, polytechnic fit

Growing up north of the Twin Cities in St. Michael, Megan Copeland is a Minnesotan through and through, right down to her love for the Minnesota Vikings.

Players battle goblins in Notoris, a video game by Flying General Games.

Computer science senior founds local game design business

Datz is looking to release Flying General Games’ first title in July

Heather Dietsche works in the plastics lab at ��, where she returned to college at age 27.

As challenges piled up, graduate didn’t back down

If there was a meter for measuring joy, it likely would have gone to the highest level in Heather Dietsche ��. family when she crossed the commencement stage.

Nearly 100 research projects were featured during the STEMM Student Expo on Dec. 9. The event was held in person for the first time in two years. /�� photos by Chris Cooper

Student expo features nearly 100 research projects, including ice fishing gadget

A team of University of Wisconsin-Stout students was hoping for colder weather and thicker ice on area lakes so they could try out their Engineering Technology