Science, Engineering & Math

Professor Laura McCullough uses balloons in a physics class this spring to help students learn about static electricity.

Physics professor's passion for teaching honored with UW System Excellence Award

McCullough loves helping students learn challenging subject, works to increase women in STEM fields

April 5, 2022

Members of �� . team that won the statewide Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition are, from left, Connor Farnworth, Tanner Kowitz, Lee Kottke, Matthew Pomes, Michael Du Mez, Luke Langefels, Vincent Klanderman, Walter Fernandez and Christina Kimball.

Student team wins statewide cyber defense competition

Nine students from �� fended off hours of cyberattacks to win a statewide cybersecurity event and place high in the Midwest regional.

April 1, 2022

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

February 21, 2022

�� plastics engineering major Jared Pavlis demonstrates for Missy Hughes, WEDC secretary and CEO, how to make an injection molded part for a catheter. Looking on are Menomonie Mayor Randy Knaack, third from left, and Randy Hulke, executive director of �� . Discovery Center.

State ��. economic development leader impressed with university ��. industry focus

The secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation recently saw and heard how �� is helping the state move forward.

February 8, 2022

�� 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.

February 2, 2022

Richie Holder enjoys the view from Mount Sonder in Australia during a study abroad experience in spring 2019. / Caroline Laubach photo

Graduate added to education with study abroad, co-op, lab, research experiences

Richie Holder witnessed a transformation while he was earning his bachelor ��. degree at University of Wisconsin-Stout. It was his own.

January 3, 2022

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.

December 22, 2021