Apparel licensee Russell Athletic has been responsive in dealing with the concerns of UW–Madison and universities across the country over potential workers rights abuses in one of the company’s factories in Honduras.
The UW Police Department will hold its second annual Badger Watch Safety Conference on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Memorial Union from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The event is free and open to all members of the university community.
An end-of-semester tradition for many faculty and staff members is attending the December session of University Roundtable. Attendees join colleagues and friends for lunch, listening and learning throughout the year, but in December, the audience is treated to a performance by students, faculty or staff.
In 2008, DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred seed business will provide the plant breeding and plant genetics program with a $60,000 grant, renewable annually for five years, to support two new graduate fellowships.
The 17th installment of the Polish Film Festival returns to the Madison campus Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9.
ESPN SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt, who has declared Madison to be America’s best college sports town, will deliver the charge to the graduates at the university’s winter commencement ceremonies on Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Kohl Center. He will speak at both the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. ceremonies.
Carrie J. Thome has been named director of investments at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
Baha Balantekin, Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics, has been elected to the Executive Board of the American Physical Society (APS). Mary Behan was named the School of Veterinary Medicine’s new associate dean for research and graduate training. John H. Booske, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed Duane H. and Dorothy M. …
Gender gaps that women experience on the job and in the home continue into retirement. Women older than 65 are twice as likely as men to live below the poverty line.
The members of the UW Marching Band were honored as “Outstanding Young Philanthropists” at the 20th annual National Philanthropy Day celebration hosted by the Association of Fundraising Professionals at the Overture Center on Nov. 16.
Schools across the United States today face more pressure than ever to boost student performance levels and close the gaps in achievement between students of different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. While many schools are struggling to make adequate progress, others have developed strategies that are contributing to significant improvements.
The Big Ten Network is gearing up for winter sports coverage, even as the network and cable television giants arm wrestle over where the network can be viewed.
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A boost in pay for UW System faculty and academic staff was given the go-ahead by state lawmakers last week.
The campus’s grassroots effort to build better administrative practices and systems is on schedule and preparing to reach out nationally to see how other universities have faced the same challenges.
A legal settlement between the state and an environmental group will result in less coal being burned at the Charter Street Heating Plant and sets the stage for major improvements at the facility.
A UW-Madison anthropologist first decided to write a book about her family when she was 10 years old, a decision she made while growing up in Bombay, the child of an American mother and an Indian father.
When a scientific advance is hailed as “the biological equivalent of the Wright Brothers’ first airplane,” it stands to reason that the work will grab worldwide attentionn
When Jean Bahr believes in something, she doesn’t hesitate to act.
University of Wisconsin fans heading to the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla., are making plans to cheer on the Badgers, ring in the New Year and even follow the Pack.