Hundreds “Seize the Lei” to Help Find a Cure for Epilepsy
A sold-out crowd of more than 650 guests warmed up a cold winter’s night recently at the fifth annual Lily’s Luau, raising $105,000 to benefit Lily’s Fund for Epilepsy Research. Read More
Stunning works featured in staff art gallery
The Academic Staff Art Gallery in Bascom Hall this semester is featuring works that combine art and science, encompassing the scientific impact of models of invertebrates, glassblowing and photography. Read More
HR Design team working to convert framework into action
The HR Design project team is working with subject matter experts to convert the framework outlined in the HR Design Strategic Plan into draft policies, procedures and processes. These efforts will continue to include close collaboration with governance groups and campus stakeholders. Read More
Thieves target catalytic converters
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is warning motorists about thefts of catalytic converters from vehicles parked in campus parking lots. Read More
Warming ‘seesaw’ turns extra sunlight into global greenhouse
Earth's most recent shift to a warm climate began with intense summer sun in the Northern Hemisphere, the first pressure on a seesaw that tossed powerful forces between the planet's poles until greenhouse gases accelerated temperature change on a global scale. Read More
Artist in residence explores black cultural identity
Faisal Abdu’Allah, an internationally acclaimed British artist whose iconographic images of power, race, masculinity, violence, and faith challenge the values and ideologies society attaches to those images, is the The Arts Institute and the Department of Art History’s Spring 2013 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence. Read More
Finding challenges accepted view of MS: Unexpectedly, damaged nerve fibers survive
Multiple sclerosis, a brain disease that affects over 400,000 Americans, causes movement difficulties and many neurologic symptoms. MS has two key elements: The nerves that direct muscular movement lose their electrical insulation (the myelin sheath) and cannot transmit signals as effectively. And many of the long nerve fibers, called axons, degenerate. Read More
High-level commission discusses future of graduate education in the chemical sciences
Members of an American Chemical Society commission will discuss the need for radical changes to graduate education in the chemical sciences at a colloquium in Madison Feb. 7. Read More
Recent Sightings: Frosty Morning
Steam and heat hit frigid air on Feb. 1, 2013, as the sun begins to rise over the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and downtown Madison isthmus during a winter morning when the temperature was six below zero. The dawn view is from the roof of the Engineering Research Building. (Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison) Read More