Outlook Magazine - Fall 2024

Year in Review

convention , while a student won People’s Choice and Best Animation awards. January - UW-Stout kicked off the new year by announcing a first-of-its-kind apprentice ship program with partners at the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development to train organizational trainers around the state, and the university’s NSA designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity for Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) was renewed for another five years. February - Blue Devils made the Women’s Basketball NCAA Sweet 16 after winning the WIAC Championship, and UW-Stout launched a new Center for Rural Opportunity, Pros perity & Sustainability . Packaging students won a Kellogg’s/Packaging Association of Canada Competition for a new Pringles con tainer design, which prompted a visit in March and an official proclamation from U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden . The team continued to rack up awards for the design throughout 2024. March - Gov. Evers returned to campus to learn more about the Department of Work force Development apprenticeship, and the Blue Devil gymnastics team returned to the NCGA national meet . And Momentum West presented the university with a Top Talent Ini tiative Award . April - MilitaryFriendly.com upgraded UW-Stout to gold status, and Stout’s game design programs were ranked in the top five in the Midwest by Princeton Review . Packaging students hosted the international PackJam Conference . Construction management stu dents took second at the national Mechanical Contractors Association of America Final Four and first place in the Associated Build ers and Contractors competition , the latter of which earned them recognition from state Rep. Clint Moses and U.S. Rep. Van Orden . Pro

gram director Barb Bauer was honored with the Wisconsin Technical Education Association 2024 Leadership Award , and Distilled, a board game designed by Professor Dave Beck (with help from Professors Erik Evensen and Cody Reimer) made the NY Times Best Strategy Board Games list. May - UW-Stout’s Valorant team won the D1 Esports State Championship ; construction management students took first place in Ryan Companies’ Pursuit construction compe tition ; Jordyn Springer (’24) was named Wisconsin Academy of Nutrition and Dietet ics’ Student of the Year ; and graphic design students won four gold, two silver and three bronze awards at the Advertising Federation of Minnesota’s Show . After meeting with food science and packaging students and fac ulty, USDA Under Secretary Alexis Taylor announced $20M in funding for the Assisting Specialty Crop Exports initiative. Down state, UW-Stout’s annual industry design showcase, Design Wisconsin , was held at Milwaukee Tool’s headquarters. (In 2025, the event comes home to Stout.) June - Wisconsin Focus on Energy presented UW-Stout with its Energy Efficiency Excel lence Award , in recognition of more than 75 energy-saving projects the university has under taken since 2017. General Motors nominated Julia Hellquist (’23), a mechanical engineering grad, for the national Cooperative Education & Internship Association’s Student Achieve ment Award , which she won. July - Dean of Students Sandi Scott was pre sented the International Association of College & University Housing Officers’ 2024 Parthe non Society Award, and members of our Sus tainability Committee traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive the U.S. Department of Educa tion Green Ribbon School Award .

August - Campus was in full swing long before classes started. UW-Stout was awarded nearly $500K for environmental management proj ects , including a grant for Red Cedar watershed monitoring, and the university was featured on Wisconsin Public Radio for a new solar panel installation on Jarvis Hall. September - University Dining Services received the 2023 Regents University Staff Excellence Program Award for its outstand ing service at Stout, and we proudly welcomed artist William Stoehr (’70), former president of National Geographic Maps, to campus as our Cabot Executive in Residence . October - We celebrated the completion of the South Hall renovation and the launch of a new student Financial Wellness & Literacy Center , which, along with other student sup port and retention efforts, is being funded by a $2.5M U.S. Department of Education award . UW-Stout hosted the inaugural Make48 Career Pathways competition , which challenged high school teams to solve an engineering design-build in less than 48 hours. And stu dents brought home a series of wins, including graduate food science student Areeba Ali (’24) taking first place at BioForward’s BioHealth Competition , a pair of wins at the Midwest Consortium for Computing Sciences Confer ence , and a second-place finish at the DigiKey programming competition . November - Gov. Tony Evers toured labs in our School of Art & Design and Robert F. Cer venka School of Engineering, and just before Veterans Day, Military Times named UW-Stout to its 2023 Best for Vets list. Packaging teams took first and third at the Paperboard Pack aging Alliance student competition in San Diego, and in Arizona they won the Inter national Molded Fiber Association chal lenge . Professor Andrew Williams won his second straight award at the M+DEV gamers

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