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Written by the Office of University Communications.
The rivalry game kicks off at 1 p.m. October 17 at Millwright Stadium, and the athletic directors have signed an agreement to keep it going after the conference change.
About 1,100 pounds of cast iron pulled out during summer construction will become 400 Porter trivets, poured in front of the public on October 15.
Homecoming runs October 11–17 with the Ring of Iron at dusk Friday and reunions for the classes of 1976, 2001 and 2016.
A planned 1.4-megawatt expansion behind the Forge Recreation Center is expected to bring campus renewable generation past 25 percent by 2028.
New partnerships with an independent-living center and a county workforce agency expand where students complete their required practicum.
Three Porter welding students placed first in their divisions at the statewide trades competition, the program's best result in a decade.
A second-place regional finish sends the student-run team to a national event for the first time in program history.
The equipment gift adds a second production-scale injection molding line to the program's pilot processing floor, doubling student lab capacity.
A visiting review team recommended full reaffirmation and commended the university’s assessment and advising practices.
The open-access fabrication shop now stays open until 2 a.m. on weeknights and has added industrial sewing and a heat press.
The career center’s annual survey of the class of 2025 shows strong placement, with results published by program.
Facing a waitlist years long, the College of Health Sciences will admit a second, smaller nursing cohort each spring beginning in 2027.
Nineteen working security professionals make up the inaugural cohort of the evening graduate program, three years after it was first proposed.
Eighteen instructors received course-redesign stipends to build assignments that assume students have AI tools and teach them to use the tools well.
The largest fall Career Fair in the event's history, and a line for Nursing and Cybersecurity graduates that formed forty minutes before the doors opened.
Graduates of five engineering and applied-technical programs will have a guaranteed interview under a new regional partnership announced Tuesday.
The incoming provost, currently a dean at a peer polytechnic, starts in January and has named applied learning and advising as early priorities.
Enrollment grew 6.1 percent over last fall, driven by Nursing, Cybersecurity and the university's expanded technical-college transfer agreements.
A staggered, appointment-based move-in and 300 student volunteers kept the first-year arrival to about twenty minutes per family at the curb.
A season-opening win over the Eau Pleine Loggers in front of 3,800 fans at Ironclad Stadium.
The gift equips a new materials-testing lab for one of the few dedicated undergraduate packaging programs in the country.
The College of Engineering & Technology will break ground this spring on a new automation and robotics teaching lab.
A two-year, building-by-building wireless overhaul is complete, roughly tripling peak network capacity in residence halls.
The Ironclads enter the season No. 4 in the Wesconsin Collegiate Athletic Conference preseason poll.
A single season pass now covers music, theatre and the Furlong Gallery’s ticketed events, and students get in free with a Porter Card.
98 percent of this spring's BSN graduates passed the licensure exam on their first attempt, extending an eleven-year streak above the state average.
Registration opens August 24 for courses from river birding to beginning welding; membership stays at $70 a year.
The 1912 building that houses the College of Business and part of the College of Arts, Design & Communication will be renovated in phases starting next summer.
The speaker, a mechanical engineering graduate, now directs a statewide manufacturing workforce initiative.
The university's varsity esports program brought home its first regional title, three years after the program's founding.
A flat annual permit fee is being replaced with three price tiers based on how close a lot is to the campus core.
The Board of Regents approved a larger incoming cohort for the M.S. in Data Science, citing sustained regional employer demand.
The $4.6 million project adds 1.3 miles of lit, accessible trail between Millwright Stadium and Depot Plaza, with construction starting in spring 2027.
The two-week, pre-fall academic and social transition program grew from 40 to about 85 students this summer.
The center, open since 2021, celebrated a milestone that its director says undercounts its real reach.
A card-access wing with power, printing, and a small café case will stay open around the clock during the semester.
Dr. Martin Ekdahl’s “Running Water” follows the town’s mill channel from 1868 to the last mill closing in 1971.
A company founded by two 2019 Mechanical Engineering graduates was named to a statewide list of fast-growing manufacturing startups.
Campus Police published the federally required Clery Act disclosure covering crime statistics, safety policies and emergency procedures.
“Made at Porter, 1893–1937” shows 140 objects made by students at the university’s predecessor, paired with work by current students.
The student-built off-road vehicle placed third overall against more than 100 university teams.
Thirty-four camps run between June 15 and August 7, and 210 seats are covered by scholarships for Porter Falls district students.
Manufacturing and construction apprentices can now bank credit for on-the-job hours and finish a degree part-time in the evenings and online.
About $6.4 million in projects will run from May 26 to August 14, with detours on Founders Drive in July.
A ramen concept and a Southeast Asian street-food stall join the retail dining lineup after a student taste-test vote.
The agreement guarantees 120 clinical placements a year, creates a nurse residency for new graduates, and puts a jointly staffed community health worker program in three rural clinics.
The one-day event showcased paid summer research across every college, from bridge sensors to apparel supply chains.
Grants and contracts crossed $9 million for the first time, led by manufacturing, health, and environmental science projects.
Ruth and Gary Lindqvist, who built a Porter County machining company, fund the university’s ninth endowed professorship; Dr. Imani Castellanos is the first holder.
About 1,650 graduates crossed the stage at Ironclad Fieldhouse, led by nursing, cybersecurity, and mechanical engineering.
A heptathlete set three school records in one weekend and the distance group went one-two in the 5,000 meters; Eau Pleine won the meet by 11 points.
The Ironclads hosted a tournament pod at Red Cedar Diamond, won the semifinal on a two-out bunt single, and finished the season 29–13.
The former closed-stack floor is now a mix of bookable group rooms, a quiet-only reading room, and a small gallery space.
A vision-inspection cell built for a regional cabinet maker took best in show; at least nine students left with job offers made on the floor.
The formerly club-run program joins Ironclad Athletics, with its first scholarship offers going out this recruiting cycle.
Delia Marchetti logged two years of readings from 14 sensors to show where cold groundwater keeps a stretch of the channel livable for native mussels.
More than 700 students, staff and neighbors took part in five days of cleanups, plantings and a dining-hall food-waste audit.
A small production line lets students and a manufacturing partner test how much recycled polymer a structural part can tolerate.
Eight students defended a simulated small-town water utility for two days while a red team of industry volunteers tried to take it offline.
The semester exchange, starting spring 2027, is built around manufacturing automation, renewable energy and maritime engineering courses taught in English.
The center now has a lounge, a quiet study room, and a full-time staff member who handles GI Bill certification in-house.
The third Ironclad Giving Day beat last year’s total by 31 percent, with the student emergency fund drawing the most individual gifts for the second year running.
A new track aligns coursework with the first several professional actuarial exams and adds a required internship.
Wesconsin resident tuition stays at $9,140, while segregated fees, housing and meal plans go up a combined $288.
A student-run program that moves unserved dining-hall food to a community fridge and local shelters has crossed a six-year milestone.
The annual greenhouse-gas inventory puts the university three-quarters of the way to its 2035 target. Nearly all of what remains comes from burning natural gas for heat.
Caleb Hermanson, a manufacturing engineering major, went 4–2 at the Division III championships; sophomore Luis Ortega won a match in his national debut.
The 2026–27 mainstage season features two plays by Wesconsin playwrights and a devised piece created by the ensemble.
Teams will repair homes, restore trout streams and work in food kitchens over spring break, and no student pays more than $175.
An expanded agreement embeds Porter courses in fourteen regional high schools, taught by certified high-school teachers under university oversight.
A dedicated lab with eye-tracking, screen capture, and an observation room lets students test their interfaces on real users.
A 71–58 win over Chippewa Valley State in a packed Fieldhouse secured a co-championship and the No. 1 seed for this week’s conference tournament.
A ten-year agreement puts a $310,000 brine-making facility in the campus facilities yard, after student river data tracked rising chloride in local creeks.
The theatre program’s winter production stages a 1981 Wesconsin play about a mining town’s worst winter on 900 pounds of salt borrowed from the city.
The gift, the largest ever from individual donors to the College of Engineering & Technology, targets students from the region’s manufacturing towns.
Riverside Hall won the Millrace pond tournament for the first time in a decade, and 188 plungers raised $14,620 for the Student Emergency Fund.
Eight patient rooms, a control suite, and debriefing spaces let nursing and allied-health students practice complex scenarios before clinical placements.
Payroll ledgers, 1,400 glass-plate negatives and 90 fabric sample books from the mill that ran beside the Millrace from 1868 to 1971 have been donated by the founding family.
A semester-long pilot runs every 20 minutes from Founders Union to Depot Plaza until 1:30 a.m., funded jointly by student government and the city.
A studio course delivered a complete signage and map system for the city’s downtown, now being fabricated by a local shop.
Students, staff and faculty logged 2,050 hours on Monday, sorting books, repairing homes and packing 9,400 pounds of food.
Nearly 1,400 students took a January course, most of them online, many to stay on track for an on-time graduation.
The student team’s autonomous sorting robot lost in the final round on a tiebreaker after a perfect qualifying record.
The mid-year class included 83 master’s graduates, a 61-year-old welding technologist and the first two graduates of the apprenticeship-to-bachelor’s pilot.
Six years of investment in the First-Generation Student Center have brought first-gen completion within two points of the university average.
Classes were canceled Tuesday after an overnight storm; dining, the library and the residence halls stayed open, and Facilities had every walk cleared by 3 p.m.
“Some Assembly Required” follows the assembly manual from 1890s farm-implement catalogs to the wordless flat-pack diagram.
A revised graduation requirement moves writing instruction out of the first year and into the disciplines.
Squash, potatoes and apples from the University Farm and 23 nearby growers made up 34 percent of the dining hall’s produce purchases, up from 19 percent two years ago.
The 12-credit, evening-and-online certificate will enroll its first students in fall 2026 and was requested by eleven regional manufacturers.
A borefield under the North Campus recreation lawn will replace gas boilers for four residence halls, cutting the university’s building emissions by an estimated nine percent.
The 1893 classroom above a Main Street feed store, now part of Foundry Coworking, finally has a marker.
The move shortens road trips for most teams and aligns competition with universities of similar size and mission.
Four students beat 30 other teams with a box that got six jars of honey through a ten-drop test without foam, plastic or a single broken jar.
Any admitted student who meets the threshold is now invited automatically; honors sections expand from 40 to 90 per year.
A four-year grant adds six stations on three agricultural tributaries of the Porter River and pays ten undergraduate field technicians a year.
The Center for Packaging Innovation will run accelerated aging and barrier tests on next-generation fiber containers for a federal agency.
A contract manufacturer, a nurse educator and a Cedar Bluff machine-shop owner who has hosted 41 co-op students were honored on Friday night.
Students who complete an associate degree at a partner college with a 2.5 GPA are now guaranteed admission and junior standing in a matching Porter program.
Supervised students in the new clinic will assess small organizations that cannot afford commercial security consulting.
Census-day headcount is up 2.9 percent, the third straight year of growth, with residence halls at 97 percent.
Recruiters filled the Fieldhouse floor a week before the registration deadline, with nursing, manufacturing and cybersecurity employers leading the list.
A one-credit module on using and evaluating generative AI is now embedded in the first-year seminar for all incoming students.
Thirty-minute arrival windows and 280 volunteers cut the median curbside wait to about 24 minutes, down from more than an hour.
Eighteen weeks of vegetables from the farm east of campus, grown by eight paid student interns, with 40 shares set aside at a reduced price for students.
Drilling for about 180 boreholes beneath the North Campus recreation lawn will start after move-in this fall, replacing gas boilers in four residence halls.
Thirty-one camps will run from June 16 to August 8, with 140 seats covered by scholarships for Porter Falls and Cedar Bluff students.
Closed stacks will become group-study rooms, a quiet reading room and a small gallery; the books nobody has checked out in a decade are going to shared storage.
Two ceremonies in Ironclad Fieldhouse conferred roughly 1,600 degrees, led by nursing, mechanical engineering and business administration.
Awards for teaching, research, advising and service went to a mechanical engineering professor, a river scientist, a transfer adviser and a custodian with 31 years in one building.
About 38 tons of food waste a year will become compost for farm plots and riverbank plantings instead of going to the county landfill.
Eight students kept a simulated rural clinic’s network running for two days while volunteer attackers tried to take it down.
The 1,893-minute campaign beat last year’s first run by 48 percent, and the student emergency fund drew more individual gifts than any other fund for the first time.
The total bill for a Wesconsin resident living on campus still rises about 1.5 percent, driven by housing, dining and a small fee increase.
The 30-credit program, first proposed in 2023, will admit its first cohort of up to 20 students in fall 2026.
“The Millrace Follies of 1911,” by an alumna and a composition professor, will be read with scripts in hand, a piano and a borrowed steam whistle.
The $6.8 million conversion of the building’s third floor will add eight simulated patient rooms and a control suite by early 2026.
Thin ice sent the tournament indoors for two days, and 161 plungers raised $11,640 for the Student Emergency Fund.
Sixty oak drawers that last held catalog cards in 1998 now hold 140 varieties of vegetable, herb and prairie seed, free to anyone with a Porter Card or a public library card.
The mid-year class included 78 master’s graduates, a father and daughter who finished the same day, and a speaker who told graduates to keep their old lab notebooks.
Student volunteers logged about 3,900 hours on a three-bedroom house in Cedar Bluff, and the construction management program ran it as a live jobsite.
The deal keeps the shuttle fare-free and on 12-minute headways through June 2029, adds a growing-season stop at the University Farm, and splits the $1.14 million yearly cost three ways.
A first-year won the individual race, and the team title came down to the fifth runner passing two Loggers in the last 300 meters.
Civil engineering researchers will try to predict which county road crossings wash out next, before the next big storm finds them.
A 41-yard field goal with 1:12 left and an interception on the next snap ended a three-game losing streak to Chippewa Valley State.
About 900 pounds of cast iron pulled out during fish-passage construction went into the cupola Thursday night in front of a crowd of roughly 420.
A 120-foot roughened channel beside the old dam drop gives brook trout a way upstream for the first time since 1920.
Dr. Elaine Vandehey named a simulation hospital, a graduate cybersecurity degree, a study of geothermal heat, a conference review and a second Giving Day as the year’s work.
Census-day numbers are up 2.4 percent, with the nursing expansion, transfer students and a larger first-year class doing most of the work.
Wollenberg, who caught for Porter from 2009 to 2012, succeeds Rick Tauscher, who retired in June after 26 seasons.
The B.S.N. program grew from 72 seats to 100 by adding two hospital partners and four clinical faculty, and still turned away more than 300 applicants.
