New Year’s Eve in Nejapa, El Salvador, looks a lot like the Fourth of July. At Griselda Guzman’s house, homemade fireworks lighted the front yard, where the guests dancing outside her pale yellow home included 11 University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students and three advisers.
The university has declared the two-year project Program Release a success, with new tools to improve the way grants, accounting, travel and other processes are handled at UW System and on the Madison, Milwaukee and Extension campuses.
The Women’s Studies Program has evolved into a new department, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies in the College of Letters and Science.
A limited number of complimentary tickets for the taping of the “Jeopardy!” 2008 College Championship on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, at the Kohl Center will be distributed to UW–Madison faculty, staff and students on a first-come, first-served basis starting on Tuesday, March 25, at the Campus Information Center in the Red Gym.
To celebrate the Aldo Leopold legacy, people are invited to the Arboretum Visitor Center, 1207 Seminole Highway, from 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 1, for “Madison Reads Leopold,” part of Aldo Leopold Weekend. Leopold Weekend is a statewide event that honors Leopold’s contributions to our understanding of the environment.
Judith Kimble, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of biochemistry and genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been elected to a three-year term as councilor for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Radio frequency identification technology, or RFID, has inspired many novel applications of late, including efforts to study magazine reader patterns, access restricted areas, locate stolen vehicles and track luggage at major airports.
The Morgridge Institute for Research, the private, not-for-profit side of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, is announcing the appointment of world-renowned stem cell pioneer and researcher James Thomson as the first member of its multidisciplinary scientific leadership team.
Public forums seeking campus and community perspectives on the qualities and talents needed in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s next chancellor will continue during the next two weeks.
History professor Alfred McCoy plays a role in “Taxi to the Dark Side,” a harrowing film about U.S. interrogation techniques that won the Academy Award Sunday for best documentary feature.
The Morgridge Institute for Research launched a new Web site today, Feb. 25, 2008.
Lisa Rutherford, a 14-year veteran of the legal affairs team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the new director of UW-Madison’s Administrative Legal Services (ALS), Provost Patrick Farrell announced today (Feb. 22).
Since the beginning of February, there has been a marked increase in the number of students coming to University Health Services (UHS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with influenza-like illness and laboratory-confirmed influenza.
Barack Obama spent more than twice as much on TV advertising in Wisconsin than all other candidates combined and nearly five times as much as Hillary Clinton, according to a new report by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Working with University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering and business school faculty and students, a Wisconsin entrepreneur has perfected a fiber-reinforced fishing lure that may prevent millions of pounds of toxic plastics from polluting waters nationwide.
The Wisconsin Union announces a “mini conference” to formally kick off the start of the Wisconsin Union Initiative, a project to build a new “green” south campus union and restore and upgrade Memorial Union.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam is asking students, faculty and staff to participate in a noon memorial ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 21, for the victims of the Feb. 14 tragedy at Northern Illinois University.
Record-setting snowfalls could translate into extra cash for University of Wisconsin-Madison students and others hired to help clear campus sidewalks and stairs of snow and ice.
The same chemical reaction that causes iron to rust plays a similarly corrosive role in our bodies. Oxidative stress chips away at healthy cells and is a process, scientists know, that contributes to a host of diseases and conditions in humans ranging from Alzheimer’s, heart disease and stroke to cancer and the inexorable process of aging.
“The Bluest Eye,” an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, will kick off the spring University Theatre season when it opens on Friday, Feb. 29, at the Mitchell Theatre.