Join us for Stout's take on Survivor! We will have a variety of games and challenges for you and your team to complete! Bring friends and be ready to meet new people too! The last team left standing will win the grand prize! If you have any accommodation, please email us at involvement@uwstout.edu.
How are you spending Advisement Day Eve? How about by celebrating Trans Day of Visibility at a cabaret?
Join the Involvement Center, the Qube, and Stout’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance for part two, once again featuring Transcendence Cabaret, an alumnus founded and produced, BI&POC centered, trans/gender non-conforming troupe of performers. This will be a night that will engage all your senses, with food, fun, photobooths, and more fabulousness than you can imagine!
Can't make it to the show? Join us virtually at the link provided!
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and show starts at 7:00 p.m.
Free entry with a Stout ID | $10 without
(Don't have a Stout ID, buy your ticket here! https://uwstout.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1662&p=1)
Tech Conferences: Which ones are worth it?
Hannah Baker, a React Developer at Performance Food Group and UW-Stout Alumni, will be presenting about the benefits of tech conferences and how to maximize your time while there! Hope to see you there!
Cryptocurrencies raise vexing normative questions across a number of topics including money creation, censorship, financial inclusion, governance, and privacy. These topics are not purely technical, and require an integrated approach that draws on computer science, philosophy, economics, and more. This talk is an extended examination of the last of these topics — privacy — through a case study of bitcoin, the oldest and most important cryptocurrency. Financial privacy is under threat from a range of private and public actors. Popular digital payment networks exacerbate the problem. This talk will show how bitcoin can be used to enhance privacy along four dimensions, despite its transparent and publicly accessible ledger. These results raise questions about the value of privacy and how to best pursue it. A novel taxonomy of "cypherpunk" theories will illuminate these questions and show how bitcoin's curious approach relates to some familiar political categories. We'll conclude with an ethical framework for weighing financial privacy against other values – especially the public’s interest in curbing criminal activity. Bitcoin’s similarities with physical cash guide the way forward and suggest this irenic parity thesis: if cash makes the world better off, then so does bitcoin.
Dr. Bailey is Associate Professor of Humanities (Philosophy) at Yale-NUS College. He has a new book (w/ Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke), Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin, recently published by Routledge.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Applied Ethics and the Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovations.
The McNair Scholars Program is a support system for preparing for graduate school. Benefits include a $2,800 stipend, travel funds to graduate schools and conferences, free graduate school applications, and assistance with research and applying to graduate schools.
Sponsored by: McNair Scholars Program For more information contact: Sarah Wynn Learn more
Library Barnard Outstanding Service Award nominations open
Please nominate a UW-Stout library staff member who has helped you in a meaningful way for the 2024 Barnard Outstanding Service Award. Candidates demonstrate one or more of the following:
Substantive and continuing effort to improve library services/resources for UW-Stout
Innovative efforts that benefit UW-Stout and/or the library information profession as a whole
Work that has led to enhanced library services/resources
Registration for Research Day closes Wednesday, March 20. You can register for one or more presentation types: poster, exhibit, art/design display, or oral/panel presentation on April 29. Present individually or in a group. Register here.
Sponsored by: Office of Research and Sponsored Programs For more information contact: Chela Cea
All-new Sidewalk Symposium for student researchers
Sidewalk Symposium is a new chalk-art event, to be held Friday, April 5, that will challenge student researchers to communicate their findings in an innovative way. Twenty Research Day registrants will collaborate with a Comics class to create their designs. To participate, students must register for Research Day by March 20. The registration form includes a question to sign up.
Sponsored by: Office of Research and Sponsored Programs For more information contact: Chela Cea Learn more
The MSC Service Center is HIRING!
Are you looking for a great on-campus job? The MSC Service Center is hiring for the Fall 2024 semester! Join our team as a Service Center Associate and gain valuable customer service, printing, and communication skills with a great group of people. You can find the application on CONNECT and Handshake. Contact Rhonda Paul - paulr@uwstout.edu with any questions.
Sponsored by: MSC Service Center For more information contact: Rhonda Paul
Blue Devil Productions is proud to present Myq Kaplan on our campus for a free comedy show.
Myq Kaplan's stand-up show is loaded with an abundance of jokes, leaving the audience wondering what to do with all the laughter. He delivers a high-quality performance that engages the brain, the heart, and the funny bone in unexpected and charming ways. His unique and universal approach to comedy is impressive, and he manages to transcend the limitations of space and time, delivering powerful philosophical truths with hilarious puns. If the great thinkers of history were alive today, they would undoubtedly attend his show. You might even believe that Myq's talents are better suited for academia, but as you wipe away the tears of laughter, you'll be grateful that he isn't.
