Choreography by Alan Sener, protégé of modern choreographer Louis Falco, along with works by Dance Program artists will be showcased in the Spring Dance Concert at 8 p.m. on –Saturday, April 24–26, in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space at Lathrop Hall.
Badger spirit will be on display this Friday as University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni and friends around the world show their support for university.
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For more than 40 years, Wisconsin Hoofers has been getting people outside to enjoy winter sports by outfitting them with inexpensive gear with its resale of ski equipment. Now, Hoofers is launching its first Outdoor Gear Resale and organizers hope it will also become a campus tradition.
Gary Sandefur, dean of the College of Letters and Science, announces the winners of the 2007–08 College of Letters and Science Academic Staff Excellence Awards, Advising Awards and Classified Staff Excellence Awards.
An energy-saving campaign launched at the University of Wisconsin-Madison two years ago has identified annual energy savings of $3.7 million and reductions of carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 28,000 tons a year.
Gov. Jim Doyle has declared April 21–25 as Tornado and Severe Weather Awareness Week in Wisconsin.
As a University of Washington graduate student in the late 1980s, Nancy Langston traveled to a national park in Zimbabwe to study an endangered bird. She came back with a resolve to know more about people.
Earth Day is celebrated once a year, but University of Wisconsin-Madison civil and environmental engineering students are working to create plans that offer sustainable benefits for years to come.
Seven UW-Madison alumni whose original contributions have earned them global recognition will be honored next month with the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Awards, presented by the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA).
Four candidates have been selected as finalists for the position of executive director of University Health Services (UHS), University of Wisconsin-Madison Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell announced today.
Martha Rosemeyer, visiting professor in agronomy, and colleagues are exploring whether a breed of highland cattle from Scotland might aid efforts to restore southern Wisconsin’s oak savanna.
On April 7, UW-Madison Assistant Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Ruby Paredes and Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell presented the first annual UW-Madison Outstanding Women of Color awards to six accomplished women, all of whom value their capacity to serve as one of their most outstanding qualities.
A UW-Madison geology department seismometer in Weeks Hall recorded the tremors of an earthquake that shook Madison and many other areas of the Midwest this morning (April 18). Centered six miles from the town of West Salem in southern Illinois, the 4:40 a.m. quake had a magnitude of 5.2 and lasted for roughly a minute. …
The Arts Institute has selected the recipients of its 2008 awards in the arts.
Matt Beyer’s first job as a UW–Madison student involved preparing hamburgers at Union South. His final one has brought him shoulder-to-shoulder with the 7-footers, titans and multimillionaires of the National Basketball Association, including one of the most famous men in China.
A documentary that creates an emotional and personal profile of students in the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will premiere in Madison on Tuesday, April 22.
Tucked away on the fifth floor of Memorial Library in a monastic faculty study room are the digs for the recently created Visual Culture Center. The limited square footage and unglamorous address, though, haven’t prevented center leadership, in just a few years, from developing and presenting a robust program of courses, research initiatives, presentations, lectures and conferences in a field of study that is the new kid on the academic block.
The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) has a robust and exciting lineup of spoken word and hip-hop events planned for the spring and summer.