True-crime documentary gets advance screening at Law School
"Facing Life: The Retrial of Evan Zimmerman," a new true-crime documentary that premieres in June on A&E cable television network, will have an advance special screening Thursday, April 27, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School. Read More
ePICS Expo reveals semester of nonprofit assistance
This semester, 116 undergraduate students enrolled in the e-Projects in Community Service course at the University of Wisconsin–Madison worked on interdisciplinary teams to design Web sites, build Web-based information systems, create logos, and develop marketing plans and materials for 14 nonprofit "client" organizations. Read More
Conference examines emerging housing markets
The 2006 Wisconsin Housing Conference, to be held on Friday, May 12, will focus on one of today's hottest housing topics: emerging housing markets. Read More
Prevention encouraged for campus after mumps diagnosis
Prevention steps are being encouraged after a 20-year-old undergraduate was diagnosed with the first case of mumps to appear in the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus community. Read More
Five faculty elected to prestigious academy
Five faculty members at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an independent policy research center that annually honors leading thinkers in the sciences, arts, humanities, public affairs and business. Read More
PEOPLE to present award-winning satire about African-American identity
Presented by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s PEOPLE program, the 11 sketches or “exhibits” in “The Colored Museum” represent a place and time in African-American history, suggesting the baggage of the past cannot be lost, but must instead be owned, claimed and trashed at the same time. Read More
PACE celebrates 10 years of progress on high-risk drinking
The PACE Project, a campus-community coalition working to reduce the harms associated with high-risk drinking, is celebrating 10 years of progress with a meeting and presentation, to be held Tuesday, April 25. Read More
Forum weighs impact of higher education on economy
A group of noted economists, business leaders and University of Wisconsin System chancellors will gather at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Thursday, April 27, for a forum titled "Higher Education and the State's Economy." Read More
Economics grad gives $1 million to endow professorship
Richard Meese, an economist and expert on foreign currency exchange rates, has given $1 million to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to establish a professorship in applied econometrics. Read More
Greek men take proactive role in sexual assault prevention
A group of 24 fraternity members at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are participating in the Fraternity Action Coalition, an academic seminar in the School of Social Work that is working to make fraternity members part of the solution to sexual assault on college campuses. Read More
Condor Week 2006: Leaders in business, academia home in on local technology
An international group of experts will visit Madison Monday-Thursday, April 24-27, to discuss Condor, an unprecedented and free-of-charge computing technology developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Posse program celebrates first graduates
The University of Wisconsin–Madison's first four Posse Scholars will graduate during commencement ceremonies this spring. Read More
All-Campus Party 2006 celebrates end of school year
All-Campus Party 2006 offers numerous events to help University of Wisconsin–Madison students unwind before the hectic week of finals and celebrate the onset of spring and the end of another school year. Read More
Common to headline All-Campus Party concert
The University of Wisconsin–Madison student-planned All-Campus Party (ACP) will present Common as the headline act for this year's Badger Blowout Concert on Wednesday, April 26, at the UW Field House. Read More
UW-Madison adds programs to ResearchChannel
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is adding several new programs to the ResearchChannel, the 24-hour network for the broadcast of faculty research findings, institutional lectures, interviews, panel discussions and documentaries from the world's leading research universities. Read More
Alumni weekend will bring storied UW graduates back to campus
Some of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's most illustrious graduates will be on campus on Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6, for Alumni Weekend 2006. Read More
UW-Madison’s cluster-hiring initiative shows signs of delivering on its promise
Seven years after the University of Wisconsin–Madison's cluster-hiring initiative was outlined by former Chancellor David Ward, the program is producing numerous accomplishments. Read More
Book Smart
Before the Chilean government vanquished the indigenous Mapuche people at the end of the 19th century, heavy forests and abundant rivers, lakes and coastal inlets teemed with resources, everything the Mapuche needed to survive. “When they were resettled after the military defeat, they were left with a fraction of their original territory and without the skills or tools to farm it appropriately,”Florencia Mallon, professor of history, says. Not surprisingly, poverty followed. Read More
Men’s hockey team finishes a dream season with championship
If you took Hollywood’s brightest scriptwriters and turned them loose on college hockey, they would have failed in creating a more storybook storyline for the 2005-06 UW men’s ice hockey season. Read More
Faculty, staff to receive earnings statements electronically only
This spring, UW–Madison is making a major effort to eliminate paper copy earnings statements for faculty and staff. Read More