A contingent of artists from around the world, working in media ranging from oil painting, color pencil and sculpture to traditional Chinese painting, will exhibit their work at a special exhibition in the State Capitol Rotunda.
Concentrating on “the moment when things happen,” members of Li-Chiao Ping Dance, whose founder is a member of the UW-Madison dance faculty, will join residents of Madison and Stoughton affiliated with senior centers, Crestwood Elementary School and the Madison Jewish Community Council’s Camp Bogrim.
The tricks and techniques that painters use to depict “Weather in Art” will be under discussion on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Steve Ackerman, UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, will consider how landscape artists use paint to create the illusion of atmospheric and weather conditions.
The exhibition Pivot Points will be on display Sept. 9-23 at the Art Department Gallery. The three-year traveling exhibition of abstract painting on paper and poetry brings together three generations of painters and poets examining the ties of mentorship.
Linda Baumann is a professor of nursing as well as a master sailor in charge of the spinnaker on her 25-foot Kirby sailboat “Annie Allen.â€
Wisconsin Public Radio’s Lori Skelton will host a public forum with the world-renowned conductor, composer and scholar Gunther Schuller about his life and work.
Tales told in music from around the world will supply the theme of the second annual World Music Fest, this year on Thursday, Sept. 15-Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Memorial Union.
What artist Martha Glowacki sees in the night sky is a larger cycle of life, death and transformation, she says. Consequently, her new multifaceted, multidisciplinary installation, “Starry Transit,”is about different takes on the natural world.
It may surprise you that sugarcane first arrived in Jamaica from Java and the South Pacific in the second half of the 18th century. The plantain and tamarind came from Africa principally to feed slaves. Eventually, plantation masters set aside special tracts for their slaves’ own use, thus saving the property owner the cost of …
The University Club has announced that it will be open to the public through the end of September, among other recent changes.
Instructors can take the initiative to include all students in the sciences, by using new teaching resources produced by the diversity team at the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL).
NanoBucky, created in the research lab of UW-Madison chemistry professor Robert Hamers, is composed of tiny carbon nanofiber “hairs,”each just 75 nanometers in diamete
The Center for the Humanities is preparing to begin one of its most ambitious projects to date: Don Quixote in Wisconsin.
Josh Fischman, deputy editor for U.S. News & World Report, has been named the first Biomedical and Public Health Writer in Residence by the UW-Madison.
The Graduate School is moving to a Web-based system for letters of recommendation, beginning Thursday, Sept. 15.
An affiliation among Wisconsin’s only comprehensive cancer center and two of the Fox Cities’ leading hospitals will offer a new level of care to the area’s cancer patients.
Students, faculty and staff will discuss ideas and inspiration for UW-Madison’s efforts to improve diversity and campus climate. The sixth annual Plan 2008 Campus Forum will be held from 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 29, at Memorial Union.
UW-Madison is taking steps to assist Wisconsin residents studying at colleges and universities closed by the catastrophic damage from Hurricane Katrina. ‘We want to do everything in our power to assist families – especially Wisconsin families – as they cope with the horrible damage caused by this natural disaster,’ says Chancellor John D. Wiley.
With the death toll estimated in the thousands and New Orleans in a state of emergency, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation will continue to have an enormous impact on the Deep South and the nation. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has experts who can offer useful perspectives to media on health, economic, psychological and rebuilding issues.
Several student services units at UW-Madison are settling into new offices after summer moves from 905 University Ave.