Administrative Redesign Project unveils new Web site
The Administrative Process Redesign project — which taps employee expertise and involvement to develop new ways for the campus to conduct its business — rolled out a new and improved web site.
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Writer’s Choice: Connections between visual, science explored
When visual culture is mentioned, molecules, materials science and technology do not often come to mind. But exploring the possible intersections between the visual and science is the focus of a conference organized by the Visual Culture Center at UW–Madison. “Visualizing Science,” to be held Feb. 7–8, is the latest in the center’s series of public conferences that explore visual culture, part of an ongoing collaboration among scholars from sciences, arts and humanities.
Cook hopes to change humanities graduate studies
Susan Cook is the associate dean for arts and humanities in the Graduate School, taking the job in June, with a leadership role in guiding graduate studies from administrative and scholarly perspectives.
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Particle accelerator may reveal shape of alternate dimensions
When the world’s most powerful particle accelerator starts up later this year, exotic new particles may offer a glimpse of the existence and shapes of extra dimensions.
Instruction expert to parents: Don’t delay school entry
A UW-Madison professor has found that delaying entry into kindergarten for a year has few positive effects on children.
With a jolt, ‘nanonails’ go from repellant to wettable
Sculpting a surface composed of tightly packed nanostructures that resemble tiny nails, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and their colleagues from Bell Laboratories have created a material that can repel almost any liquid.
Free cake to celebrate UW-Madison’s 159th birthday
This year, the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) is feeding students’ minds as well as their bodies during the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s birthday.
Wednesdays WebConference Series on Creating & Funding University Startups
A 7-session WebConference Series produced by UW–Madison Office of Corporate Relations in cooperation with Madison Magnet and sponsored by Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek.
Green retreat from winter white
Anyone feeling weathered of Old Man Winter or that Jack Frost has nipped enough at their likely now-parched skin should consider a retreat to a publicly accessible campus greenhouse. (Slide show included.)
UW-Madison terminates New Era contract
UW-Madison has terminated its licensing contract with Buffalo, N.Y.-based New Era Cap Co.
Concerts, exhibits, plays among spring events
There’s no end in sight for the strike at the Writers Guild of America, but that doesn’t mean you need to sit around boo-hooing, watching reruns or mind-numbing reality TV. Much finer entertainments are in the works on campus for the spring semester. See a play, visit a gallery, take in a film and attend a concert, or two or seven. Campus arts groups will present the works of the world-renowned as well as our student artists-in-the-making.
Using DNA, scientists hunt for the roots of the modern potato
More than 99 percent of all modern potato varieties planted today are the direct descendents of varieties that once grew in the lowlands of south-central Chile. How Chilean germplasm came to dominate the modern potato-which spread worldwide from Europe-has been the subject of a long, contentious debate among scientists.
Talk commemorates 75th anniversary of Warfarin saga
Seventy-five years ago this February, a Wisconsin dairy farmer brought some sweet clover hay to University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Karl Paul Link. The farmer suspected the clover had killed his cattle, which died from uncontrollable bleeding. From one farmer’s misfortune, much good has come.
Visiting artist to connect art students to the real world
University art students, who have yet to confront with the harsh realities of making it as a professional artist, have much to learn from those who have walked the line between the proverbial “starving artist” and making a good living in art.
New Antarctic ice core to provide clearest climate record yet
Ice Coring and Drilling Services at UW-Madison built and is operating a state-of-the-art, deep ice-coring drill that is the engine behind an unprecedented Antarctic research project to record greenhouse gas levels over the last 100,000 years. The project completed its first year at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide.
Theatre auditions attract national producers, hopeful actors, techies
Theatre producers from around the country will audition actors, singers, dancers, designers, technicians and managers at the 32nd annual Theatre Auditions set for Feb. 9 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union.
Professor helps schools meet the demands of high-stakes accountability
Richard Halverson, an education leadership and policy analysis professor, is focusing his research on examining how schools are approaching the tough standards established by the federal No Child Left Behind law.
ACTION Campaign Meets Initial Goal to Enlist 500 Agencies Nationwide
In the four short months since its launch in October 2007, the University of Wisconsin-Madison-based ACTION Campaign to combat substance abuse has already met its initial goal to enlist 500 agencies nationwide.
Local competition exposes high schoolers to the study of linguistics
While the average U.S. high school may not offer classes in Turkish or Indonesian, an international competition will soon be bringing them to Madison’s high school students.