Photo: Bryce Richter Former president Bill Clinton makes a stop on the campaign trail for his wife, New York senator and Democratic presidential primary candidate Hillary Clinton, at the Stock Pavilion on Feb. 14, 2008. Approximately 2,000 people attended the event, including members of the campus community; representatives from the Madison American Federation of State, …
For almost a decade, Adrian Treves, an animal behaviorist and ecologist, and Lisa Naughton, a social scientist, have worked closely with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to address the challenges of living with wolves, especially the losses of livestock and hunting dogs that inevitably result.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam is urging students to pay close attention to personal safety.
“Bold Changes, Strong Roots,” UW–Madison’s annual report for fiscal year 2006–07, is now available online.
One of the country’s most popular and longest-running game shows, “Jeopardy!”, rolls into Madison on Friday and Saturday, April 11–12.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a 1918 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be featured on a new stamp for the U.S. Postal Service’s 2008 Commemorative Stamp Program.
Undergraduate students and their professors still have time to apply for the inaugural Hirsch Family Award, created by alumnus Jim Hirsch and his wife, Judy. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 14.
Following is a letter from Alan Fish, associate vice chancellor for facilities, regarding the university’s work on snow removal around campus.
It happens on campus every day — people getting together, in groups large and small, to share ideas and perspectives on issues that matter. And every year, the student-run Distinguished Lecture Series Committee of the Wisconsin Union Directorate adds to the vibrancy of ideas by bringing some of the nation’s best minds and voices to campus for free, public presentations.
Coping with the rigors of academia at a large research institution while simultaneously dealing with “coming of age” issues are challenges most undergraduate students face sometime during their four years on campus. But how they express their intellectual and emotional growth along with their expanded visions of the world varies greatly..
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison was named this week to the 2007 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction for its efforts to promote community service and service learning on its campus.
People planning to attend former President Bill Clinton’s political rally for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expected to begin at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Thursday (Feb. 14), should keep in mind several important details.
Photo: Bryce Richter Illinois senator and Democratic presidential primary candidate Barack Obama makes a campaign stop at the Kohl Center on Tuesday, Feb. 12. The rally was attended by an over-capacity crowd estimated at 18,400 people, along with an additional 2,000 overflow attendees watching the event via television screens in the Kohl Center’s Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion.
Most students are surprised to find on the timetable that a Wisconsin-focused class could fulfill their ethnic studies requirement. But music professor Susan Cook says her new class takes a broad view of both music and ethnicity, diving into the use of music in ethnic settlements in Wisconsin since the 1800s, such as the Swiss in New Glarus and Germans in Milwaukee. She will also explore the musical traditions of Native Americans and recent Hmong immigrants.
People planning to attend this evening’s Barack Obama “Stand for Change” rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Kohl Center should heed several important details related to the event.
Conflicts of interest for university faculty members who start their own companies will be the subject of a panel discussion on Monday, Feb. 18 at 5 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Fluno Center, 601 University Avenue.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a long tradition of collaboration among scholars from distinct academic disciplines. This legacy continues in the high-quality research, instruction, and service emerging from the university’s 290 interdisciplinary departments, centers and institutes.
A catheterized system to sense bladder pressure and control urine flow to prevent incontinence won the $10,000 top prize in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, an annual University of Wisconsin-Madison invention competition.
Photo: Jeff Miller An underwater robot is lowered by crane into an opening cut in the ice covering Lake Mendota near the shoreline on Tuesday, Feb. 12. With logistical support from the Center for Limnology, NASA and researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago are taking the submersible ENDURANCE — Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-Ice Robotic …