You’re not alone. It’s a simple message but one that can provide great comfort. That is just part of what those who gather at the Waisman Center as part of the Grandparents’ Network take with them following each meeting.
As spring warms up Wisconsin, humans aren’t the only ones tending their gardens.
From the website, Speaking of Research.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Paul M. DeLuca Jr. announced today (June 12, 2013) that he will step down as the university’s chief academic officer and return to the faculty.
Fred Fotis has been hired as director of residence life at University Housing, replacing Kay Reuter-Krohn, who is retiring.
For the past two years, psychologist Julie Poehlmann’s worked as an advisor for “Sesame Street” on developing materials that will help children with incarcerated parents and the people who are taking care of them.
The 8th Annual Hip-Hop in the Heartland Educator and Community Leader Training Institute, July 22-26 at Union South, will immerse participants in dynamic best-practices and multi-disciplinary tools to engage students in history, language, political science and other topics along with instruction on building or enhancing curriculum through performance art.
In the face of unprecedented environmental challenges that demand novel solutions, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon begin accepting applications for a model graduate degree program to train tomorrow’s conservation leaders.
Mark Bugher, who helped to mold UW-Madison’s University Research Park into an economic and technology transfer force admired nationally, plans to retire in October.
The academic year is over, but that’s not stopping Madison residents and visitors from writing on blackboards.
For fifteen years, the UW Teaching and Learning Symposium has been the go-to place for UW instructors to share their findings and learn new teaching strategies.
The Center for the First-Year Experience (CFYE), within the Division of Student Life, has announced two new assistant directors within the office.
Blended learning gets talked about a lot in today’s educational circles. But what is it? And why is everyone talking about it?
Mary Rouse is one of several honorees who will be recognized at the Community-University Partnership Awards on Wednesday, June 12 at Olin House.
The European MOOCs in Global Context Workshop, a free event, will be held June 19-20 at the Wisconsin Idea Room inside the School of Education Building.
The Rodney Dangerfield of celestial bodies is back.
Dr. Ned Kalin, chair of the Department of Psychiatry, is an accomplished biological psychiatrist whose research focuses on anxiety. Through imaging studies and understanding the genetic and environmental components of mental illness, his lab is working toward discoveries that can form the basis of early interventions to treat children who are at risk of developing long-term anxiety and related psychiatric disorders.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted Friday afternoon in favor of naming three UW-Madison buildings and a campus complex after renowned biochemist Hector F. DeLuca.
Madison taxpayers can now pay their property taxes in four installments due to an ordinance change adopted by the city council June 5, a couple years after a La Follette School analysis found that property owners are less likely to be late with tax payments if they can make three installment payments a year instead of two.