Crazylegs returns for 25th year
The 2006 Crazylegs Classic on Saturday, April 29, will mark the 25th anniversary of the popular event with a few changes to the event, including a revised route. Read More
Strong job market buoys MBA placement rates
The national job market for MBA students continues to grow, with more job offers and bigger salaries particularly from employers in the consulting, financial services and consumer product industries, according to a new survey released by the MBA Career Services Council (MBA CSC). The national survey highlights a trend seen within the Wisconsin MBA program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business. Read More
New Web site a clearinghouse for Earth Day events
Events inspired by Earth Day (April 22) may be scattered far and wide across southern Wisconsin, but now there's a single Web site that seeks to list them all in one place. Read More
Amasino receives prestigious HHMI professorship
Just as a non-musician savors the resounding strains of a Beethoven symphony, University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemist Richard Amasino believes that non-scientists can appreciate the role of science in their lives. He will have a chance to advance that notion to K-12 teachers nationwide after being named a million-dollar Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor. Read More
Artist in residence Matthew Buckingham to speak at MMCA on April 25
Arts Institute Artist in Residence Matthew Buckingham will present a public lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25, at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), 227 State Street. He will discuss "Behind the Terminal Moraine," his new installation for MMCA's major reopening exhibition, "Between the Lakes: Artists Respond to Madison." Read More
UW-Madison awarded grant for adult student scholarships
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has been awarded a gift from the Bernard Osher Foundation of San Francisco to provide scholarships for up to 10 adults who are returning to college to complete their first bachelor's degrees. Read More
Women tear up ice for team’s first-ever hockey national championship
The UW–Madison women’s hockey team didn’t just win its first-ever national championship title on March 26. UW–Madison dominated its way toward the title. Read More
Writer’s Choice
The French House, the nation’s oldest residential language immersion community, was founded in 1918 and began opening its doors to the campus and the public for weekly lunches and dinner shortly thereafter. Read More
Out and About Month offers wide menu of events
A plethora of special events will help the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Center celebrate Out and About Month this April. Read More
Holocaust art competition offers artists, viewers chance to reflect
The theme is the historical event of the Holocaust. The charge to participants is to render it in art. “Our goal is to increase people’s awareness of the Holocaust and of genocide in general,”says Jenny Elyanov, chair of the Holocaust Remembrance Coalition, a committee of Hillel that is organizing the exhibition. “The artworks also represent the students’ feeling and thoughts about the Holocaust, as well as commemorate the victims.†Read More
New men’s a cappella ensemble to open for Tangled Up in Blue concert
“I can’t believe how quickly it’s coming up!” says Kelly Spitzner, a senior in art and psychology. She also is the business manager for Tangled Up in Blue, UW–Madison’s women’s a cappella group. The “it” she’s referring to is Tangled Up’s concert on Sunday, April 9, in the Wisconsin Union Theater. Read More
Recent sightings
Reflecting on reflections Shadowy shapes of people walking through the atrium of the Engineering Centers Building are seen silhouetted against… Read More
Technology impacts art of the print
At the risk of stating the obvious, technology has had, and will continue to have, a significant impact on all art forms. But how, exactly? Gallery-goers attending “Ideas, Dialogue, Conscience”will come face to face with some examples of technology’s interface with printmaking. Read More
New campus map leads straight to top honors
The Department of Cartography has won an award for Best Reference Map in the professional category for its recently released Visitor Map and Guide. The award is from the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. Read More
Educators strive to retain students with disabilities in science
While many students wrestle with complicated concepts in science, that struggle takes on a new meaning for students with disabilities who are trying to learn the same things. Read More
Book smart
From neighbors to killers: Book explores the personal horror of Rwanda’s genocide Scott Straus became a foreign correspondent stationed in central Africa… Read More
Three to be inducted into Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame
Carl Chellevold of Richland Center, Carl Kuehne of Green Bay and Jack Link of Minong will be inducted into the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame on May 4 at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Livestock and Meat Council in Madison. Read More
Data provides misleading picture of autism
National special education statistics show a 657 percent increase in autism over the decade from 1993 to 2003. That data suggests the country is experiencing an epidemic of autism. But inconsistencies in how the condition is diagnosed throughout the nation's schools, and the fact that the increasing trend for autism coincides with a corresponding slump in the reporting of mental retardation and learning disabilities, challenges the use of special education data to portray such an national epidemic. Read More
Historic gift will drive research innovation
The largest individual gift ever to benefit UW–Madison - $50 million from alumni John and Tashia Morgridge - will pave the way for pioneering scientific collaboration at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Read More