Appointed Meyer Jackson, professor in the Department of Physiology, was appointed Kenneth S. Cole Professor of Physiology on July 1. The WARF professorship honors faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, through research endeavors and teaching and service activities. Honored Darrell Bazzell, associate vice chancellor for administration, was given a Friend …
The Ombuds Office for Faculty and Staff continues to provide a place for all faculty and staff to come to resolve conflict, with a new staff member offering new perspectives on issues.
The Hunger Banquet simulates the life of the less-privileged. All are welcome to discuss poverty with an expert panel.
To prepare for the seven-day African American winter holiday, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority is sponsoring a Kwanzaa Holiday Fair on Saturday, Nov. 26.
Oils and mixed media works based on an underlying theme or narrative will be on view at the UW-Madison Women’s Studies Research Center through December.
Doug Rosenberg, associate professor of dance, is directing a film that explores the five senses through dance.
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“Open a Door … Open a Book … Open Your Mind … to the World,”will bring four international writers for a celebration of children’s literature on Saturday, Nov. 19, at UW-Madison.
Although officially neutral on political platforms and not aligning itself with or advocating for specific public policy, UW-Madison takes an emphatic position on the value of active participation in learning and in the community.
In an attempt to combat graffiti in the Department of Art, located in the Mosse Humanities Building, the university has taken steps to make some walls in the department “authorized”for student messages and doodles.
The Vikings: scourge of the seas, masters of the strategic rampage, fearsome warriors of the frozen North… Actually, this somewhat lopsided view of medieval Norsemen is the product of the much-later Romantic imagination. The preferred, more accurate term is “Norse,” Wolf says. “Vikings were only a tiny fraction of the total population of Scandinavia in …
Chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri will present “Once Upon a Christmas Cheery In the Lab of Shakhashiri”again this year.
More than eight decades ago, two enterprsing biologists from UW-Madison opened a modest research outpost on Trout Lake, deep in the heart of Wisconsin’s northern lakeregion. The goal was to peer into the fundamental mysteries of freshwater lakes, from their basic chmistry to their elaborate life cycle.
Picnic Point in autumn.
On “Barry Alvarez Day,” it was only fitting that the fans’ chants of “Barry, Barry,” which began at the football game at Camp Randall earlier in the day, extended across campus to the hockey game at the Kohl Center that night. The fans’ chants acknowledged UW’s head football coach of 16 years, who coached the final home game of his career on Nov. 12.
UW-Madison pediatrician Bruce S. Klein has received a highly selective MERIT award (Method to Extend Research in Time) from the National Institutes of Health, an award that promises continued research funding for up to 10 years.
3M Community Giving, the charitable arm of 3M, has announced a $1.6 million gift toward the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Building Project at the UW-Madison.
UW-Madison students continue to study abroad in record numbers, according to figures released by the UW-Madison Division of International Studies.
A trio of early-November academic rankings placed UW-Madison in good company among national universities. Rankings of agricultural research, international grants and workplace quality all gave the university Top 10 marks.
The documentary film “After Innocence,” which tells the powerful and moving stories of those exonerated after being wrongly convicted of crimes, will be shown Thursday, Nov. 17 in a free screening hosted by the Wisconsin Innocence Project.