You have met the ancient Greeks, and they are you. Culturally speaking, anyway. In his general study of the ancient Greeks, Powell says that 21st century readers will find his answers to the questions that the new book asks quite surprising. “Who were these people? What did they think? Where and how did they live? …
A 48-foot-tall sculpture by internationally acclaimed artist Donald Lipski will be installed this week as a fanciful finishing touch to the renovation of Camp Randall Stadium
Award-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Howard French will deliver two public lectures on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 27-28, as part of a continuing lecture series on international issues sponsored by UW-Madison.
During his public presentation before 200 UW-Madison undergraduates, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates enlisted gung-ho alumni, eye-popping gadgetry and a video with hipster-dork character Napoleon Dynamite to make a point to his youthful audience: What could be cooler than a career in computers?
As part of a new National Science Foundation-funded network, UW-Madison engineering faculty, staff and students will work with some of the nation’s top science museums to create hands-on exhibits about technology so small that even the tiniest human fingers can’t touch it.
The UW-Madison School of Education will launch its Reading Recovery Program with a reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Reading Recovery Research and Learning Center on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 2 pm. The new center – the first of its kind in Wisconsin – will support the training of Reading Recovery teacher leaders, who will spend an academic year at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison’s Muslim Student Association will hold a fundraiser at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 18, in 1651 Humanities to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Pakistan, India and Kashmir.
An avian influenza virus isolated from an infected Vietnamese girl has been determined to be resistant to the drug oseltamivir, the compound better known by its trade name Tamiflu, and the drug officials hope will serve as the front line of defense for a feared influenza pandemic.
An internationally known agronomist who has devoted his career to ensuring adequate food supplies for all while enhancing environmental quality worldwide will give a free public lecture at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A tool normally used to improve stainless steel and other metal alloys has now found application to a decidedly non-metallic substance: protein.
Researchers in public policy, natural and social sciences, engineering and medicine are mixing it up this year at the Science, Democracy and Public Policy Seminars.
Built in 1960, the university’s 1 megawatt reactor is about 1/3000 the size of a commercial reactor and is used for education, research and educational outreach missions involving other universities, emergency responders, school groups and scouts. (Photo: Michael Forster Rothbart) About the reactor Completed in 1960, the University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor is a fission …
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates visited UW-Madison today (Wednesday, Oct. 12) as part of his 2005 College Tour, designed to promote greater youth involvement in technology careers.
The 24-hour college network, mtvU, brought its popular “Stand In” series today (Oct. 12) to campus by hosting Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect.
Peering through his glasses, 80-year-old Mike Murray carefully bends dozens of colorful resisters, capacitors and transistors into a credit-card sized circuit.
Environmental historian William Cronon will be the inaugural speaker in a lecture series at UW-Madison honoring the legacy of the late Wisconsin governor and U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson.
UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley is announcing a new initiative to strengthen the links between the university’s multicultural programming and community outreach. The initiative will enhance and complement other campus-based diversity activities under the umbrella of Plan 2008, but be distinctive in its programming and goals.
A new housing development in Sun Prairie, Wis., is giving UW-Madison researchers a chance to test whether septic systems cause bacteria in groundwater to become resistant to antibiotics.
A panoramic photograph titled “Lily Pond” by Madison photographer Jamie Young is part of the exhibit “Into the Woods,” featuring Young’s nature photographs of the UW Arboretum and the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, on display at the Arboretum’s Steinhauer Trust Gallery through Sunday, Oct. 30. “The natural world for me has always been a spiritual place, …
The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries will host their semiannual used book sale Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 12-15, in 116 Memorial Library. The sale features a wide variety of donated books, journals and magazines in the sciences and humanities with special collections of art books, natural history, urban planning and women’s studies.