As part of the Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Foundation’s efforts at universities around the country, Major League Baseball (MLB) Hall of Famer Hank Aaron and his wife, Billye, have established an endowed “4 for 4” Scholarship in honor of MLB Commissioner Allan H. “Bud” Selig at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the commissioner’s alma mater.
Fifteen presidents of French universities, along with high-level education administrators and French Embassy personnel, will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison beginning Monday, Aug. 30, for a weeklong seminar on leadership and strategic issues related to the management of autonomous public research universities.
Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison are participating in a cross-country bike ride to promote awareness of Alzheimer’s disease.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison continued to earn national praise this week, this time being listed as part of Parade magazine’s “College A-List.” Forty-three top high-school counselors from around the country were asked to recommend outstanding schools that might not get as much attention as those in the Ivy League, and UW-Madison was featured in the …
The School of Education has returned to the Education Building on Bascom Hill, coming home to a much-improved facility than the place it vacated in 2008.
There’s nothing more pedestrian than, well, being a pedestrian. You know: Wait for the walk light, stay in the crosswalk, keep up with the flow.
When Charles Wedemeyer pioneered new methods of distance education, he could not have foreseen some of the innovations available today.
Gary Brown, director of campus planning and landscape architecture at Facilities Planning and Management, has been named director of the university’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
University Communications launched a re-designed university home page on June 29.
We have made it through a challenging first year of state-mandated employee furloughs, which were imposed as a way for the state of Wisconsin to save money in difficult budget times.
From construction to Chinese athletes, campus was a busy place this summer. Here are a few stories you may have missed.
The 260 students starting at the University of Wisconsin Law School this fall arrive on campus expecting to be immersed in lectures or hefty reading assignments.
In a study that promises to fill in the fine details of the plant world’s blueprint for surviving drought, a team of Wisconsin researchers has identified in living plants the set of proteins that help them withstand water stress.
The two surnames names are ancestral, with the father’s family name followed by the mother’s family name. In Colombia, for example, “Ernesto Escobar Vega” uses two surnames (“Escobar Vega ”) as his legal name, with “Escobar” coming from his father and “Vega” coming from his mother. This naming convention is the rule in Spanish-speaking countries, …
Approximately 6,500 University of Wisconsin-Madison students will move into their university residence halls this week with the help of their families and friends.
The annual college rankings season rolled on Monday (Aug. 23) as the University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked 23rd nationally in this year’s edition of Washington Monthly’s 2010 College Rankings. The rankings are based a methodology that assesses three areas, including “social mobility,” which takes into account percentage of students receiving Pell Grants and graduation rates; …
Employees can begin picking up their complimentary Madison Metro bus passes beginning Monday, Aug. 16.
For those who were in Madison on Aug. 24, 1970, memories of the bombing of Sterling Hall – the sounds that woke them in the middle of the night, the images of the aftermath – are indelible.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Aug. 19 approved a two-year budget intended to boost Wisconsin’s economy by increasing the number of UW graduates and creating new jobs. The budget includes a request for $83.6 million increase in general purpose funds from the state, including $22.6 million to add 5,900 students across the …