Hundreds of students began their day Sept. 13 with a stroll through the Engineering Centers Building, where the college’s fall Career Connection was in full swing. Three days later, many of those students left with interview commitments for internships, co-ops and professional positions; contacts in industry, and, at the very least, backpacks full of recruiting giveaways like miniature calculators, CD holders and even food-storage containers.
UW-Madison has been named the nation’s top research university in a new college guide that attempts to measure higher education’s contributions to society.
UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley has been appointed to the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, a new group designed to give colleges and universities additional input on issues in which academia and national security intersect.
UW-Madison freshman Sarah Whiteaker of Milwaukee is one of six first-year college students from across the United States who will be featured in America Online’s “Project Freshman,” a new documentary series that will be Web cast on AOL RED for teens starting Friday, Sept. 23. New episodes will air every Thursday. The primary audience is 13- to 18-year-olds.
UW-Madison is the top research university in the United States, according to the September issue of Washington Monthly.
UW-Madison’s Morgridge Center for Public Service recently partnered with Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, Texas, as part of its efforts to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Managed grazing is becoming increasingly popular with Wisconsin dairy farmers. Grazing systems reduce labor requirements and provide environmental benefits, as the cows harvest much of their own feed and spread their own manure. In addition to these benefits, a new report from UW-Madison shows that these grazing farms are economically competitive with confinement dairy operations.
A sweeping look at jokes that lampoon lawyers and the tensions between Americans’ respect for law and disdain for attorneys is the focus of “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture,” a new book by UW Law School emeritus professor Marc Galanter.
UW-Madison has been criticized over its handling of disciplinary matters related to three employees convicted of serious felonies. In each case, there were calls from state legislators and the media that the employees be immediately fired and that the university’s response time for discipline or dismissal was too slow. The university community shares in the horror and anger over these reprehensible crimes, which include sexual assault of children, stalking and child enticement. And the university shares the same frustration over the time that is required to legally resolve them.
Ted Beck, who has been associate dean for executive education and corporate relations at UW-Madison since 1999, will take over next month as president and CEO of the National Endowment for Financial Education.
Even the subtlest hints of anger or hostility in their environment set physically abused children on prolonged “alert,” even if a conflict has nothing to do with them. The tendency to stay attentive of nearby discord is probably a natural form of self-preservation in children who routinely face aggression. But it may also explain why abused children are often so distracted at school, write researchers from UW-Madison.
Thomas Record, a biophysical chemist at UW-Madison, has been named one of six 2006 Society Fellows by the Biophysical Society, a 7,000-member U.S. organization that represents global biophysics research.
Governance, an academic journal co-edited by UW-Madison professor Graham Wilson, has been named first among journals in the field of public administration for 2004.
In a study of adult monkeys who were exposed to moderate amounts of alcohol in utero, scientists have found that prenatal exposure to alcohol – even in small doses – has pronounced effects on the development and function later in life of the brain’s dopamine system, a critical component of the central nervous system that regulates many regions of the brain.
Fifty years ago, instructional technology consisted of 16 mm films, slide projectors and phonograph records. While you are trying to recollect what those might have been, Read Gilgen will be only too happy to tell you where IT is now, and where it’s going in the future.
Modern neuroscience is advancing understanding of the brain and behavior at a pace that few could have imagined even five years ago. The resulting knowledge is transforming our understanding of brain function in health and disease, with profound implications for society. Recognizing this, two UW-Madison faculty now have created a new dual-degree graduate program in Neuroscience and Public Policy to train students how to apply this knowledge to problems in public policy.
As Hurricane Ophelia is set to make landfall on the North Carolina coast on Wednesday or Thursday (Sept. 14 or 15), analysis techniques developed by researchers at UW-Madison’s Tropical Cyclones group in the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies are helping to predict the anticipated path of the storm.
If you came of age in the 20th century, you were part of a profound change in the way that Americans learn to read and write, according to a literacy researcher at UW-Madison.
Students, faculty and staff are invited to spend Thursday, Sept. 29 and Thursday, Nov. 3 discussing ideas and inspiration for UW-Madison’s efforts to improve diversity and campus climate. The sixth annual Plan 2008 Campus Forum will be held over two days, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Memorial Union (TITU). All sessions are free and the entire Madison community is invited.
Continuing work on central campus utilities will force the closure of Observatory Drive just east of Babcock Drive beginning today (Monday, Sept. 12) and continuing through early November, officials say.