![UW-Stout’s game design and development programs teach virtual reality, along with other game development skills.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/gamedesign_VR.jpg?h=5321fa69&itok=uFU6f-da)
New rankings push game design program to elite national level
![UW-Stout Chancellor Katherine Frank, at left, gave the University Staff Employee Appreciation Award to Bobbi Larson.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/chancellor.jpg?itok=jMPuGkLR)
Larson receives April University Staff Appreciation Award
![Jazz band students practice for a performance at UW-Stout](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/jazzband3.jpg?h=f82ee513&itok=7PAFjXpj)
UW Regents approve new arts administration and entrepreneurship degree
![UW-Stout students Michael Wilson, at left, Amara Miller and Tori Williams plant flower seeds during the Self-Care is Everywhere event at UW-Stout. The Counseling Center and Student Life Services are holding events to help student cope with stress. /UW-Stout photo](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/mentalhealth2hero.jpg?itok=hPhWjs2M)
Counseling Center, Student Life and Services plan events to help students cope with stress
![Adam Karis, a UW-Stout graduate student in the Operations and Supply Management program, works in the 3M Plant Engineering Stockroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/20171129_MS_Operations_and_Supply_Chain_08.jpg?h=118791c0&itok=ZUu-xNPW)
Free online operations, supply management courses introduce professionals to leading software
![Daniel Nesja’s Goat Milk? advertising campaign won Best in Show in the student division of the Minnesota AdFed competition.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/nesja%2Cdaniel_goatmilk.jpg?h=a101650f&itok=47lUmcZY)
Goat Milk? gets Best in Show in Advertising Federation of America student competition
![Plastics engineering major Olivia Hile works in a lab in 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/plasticslab_students1.jpg?h=2d3ec73a&itok=DxdLcAPm)
Chancellor: University applying pandemic lessons for future success
![UW-Stout student Heather Kent, a senior business administration major from Altoona, shreds office paper in the Human Resources office.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/heatherkenthero.jpg?h=520b1eb9&itok=82QynPy7)
Shredded campus office paper being recycled into tissue paper
![Student creating a portrait in the Drawing Studio. Photo taken pre-COVID.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/20170207_painting_01.jpg?h=012e63df&itok=WiBzJsXV)
New introductory program opens doors to more students interested in art, design careers
![UW-Stout student Stephanie Howell with her part of the Project 30.1 mural in Hudson, name for the distance from where George Floyd died. Photo courtesy Stephanie Howell](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/stephanie_howellhero.jpg?h=7f83a1a7&itok=TE_VtjbN)