With 10 years and hundreds of research projects in its history, the Undergraduate Symposium has been instrumental in showcasing undergraduates’ hard work. It’s also opened participants’ eyes to the possibilities of research — and even led some to continue the work they started with the event.
Students make their way into the polling station located at Gordon Commons to participate in the Wisconsin presidential primary. Photo: Bryce Richter Student voters cast their ballots at Gordon Commons. Photo: Bryce Richter After voting, students receive ”I Voted” stickers. Photo: Bryce Richter
If you chance to walk through the halls of the months-old American Family Children’s Hospital, try not to blink. There is so much to see: Every stretch of hallway is bursting with artistic touches — sculpture, watercolor paintings and colorful alphabet quilts.
UW-Madison is open for business and classes will be held Monday, Feb. 18, as scheduled.
Photo: Jeff Miller Habitat for Humanity Restore volunteers Vince Perkins and Bill Bumby (wearing red hat) remove salvaged doors from the old Rennebohm building at the corner of University and Randall avenues. Restore, a nonprofit organization that salvages and re-sells donated building materials, has deconstructed and removed nearly 20,000 pounds of salvaged material — doors, …
From the moment people step outside their homes to the moment they return, civil and environmental engineering professor Jessica Guo is interested in where they go, how they get there, how many trips they take in-between and why they travel the way the do. Guo’s research interests in travel behavior prompted her to create an …
Groups of UW-Madison students jump into the ice-cold water of Lake Monona on Feb. 16, 2008, during the annual winter Polar Plunge, a pledge-based fund-raising event supporting Special Olympics Wisconsin. Photos: Bryce Richter
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering faculty members are among the 65 engineers and nine foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2008.
Election day is Tuesday, February 19. Polls will be open in Madison from 7 a.m.-8 p.m. If you have not pre-registered, U.S. citizens who are 18 years of age and have been residents of Wisconsin for at least 10 days, can register Tuesday at the polls.
Numerous UW-Madison campus events are being cancelled in response today’s extremely icy conditions.
The City of Madison has declared a snow emergency. That means that alternate side parking restrictions will be in effect throughout the entire City of Madison including the downtown/isthmus snow emergency zone.
As of 8 p.m. Sunday, UW-Madison is expected to be open for regular business and classes on Monday, Feb. 18.
With a change at the top coming as soon as summer 2008 and a campus reaccreditation project in full swing, it’s prime season to discuss what the future holds for UW-Madison. Wisconsin Week asked 14 people from the campus and community — a diverse group representing faculty and staff, civic leaders, alumni and business people — to offer some of their priorities for the next chancellor of UW-Madison.
After two years of teaching an experimental colloquium on organic farming, horticulture professor Jim Nienhuis is no longer surprised by the diversity of majors interested in his class.
Every year, storms over West Africa disturb millions of tons of dust and strong winds carry those particles into the skies over the Atlantic. According to a recent study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison atmospheric scientists, this dust from Africa directly affects ocean temperature, a key ingredient in Atlantic hurricane development.
The state Department of Administration and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are holding a town hall meeting on Thursday, Feb. 21, to help develop the scope for a comprehensive feasibility study to analyze the way the state heats and cools state agency buildings and the UW-Madison campus.
Growing up in China meant University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore Richard Qian didn’t rush to play four-square or trade pogs during recess, but instead dashed to the blacktop to play the world’s second most popular sport: table tennis.
UW-Madison officials are offering condolences and resources in response to the Feb. 14 tragedy at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill.
Addressing scientists in Boston Feb. 15 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dietram Scheufele, a professor of life sciences communication, presented new survey results that show religion exerts far more influence on public views of technology in the United States than in Europe.
In a January ceremony held at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, and attended by Turkish dignitaries, including the president, president of the parliament, prime minister, cabinet ministers, university presidents, and others, University of Wisconsin-Madison Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Tuncer Edil received the Special Science Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.