Reflecting its deep value to the campus community and the city, UW-Madison has formally renamed its collection of pristine natural areas tucked along Lake Mendota as the “Lakeshore Nature Preserve.”
Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been elected to the National Academy of Education (NAE).
On Monday, May 16, buses begin 15-minute recess service for the summer and the Central Campus Utility Project moves into high gear. Patience and vigilance will be the key to getting around.
The UW-Madison chapter of Phi Kappa Phi recognized the following people for their achievement and excellence.
Want to get rid of that old cell phone and donate it to a good cause?
Jean-David Levitte, France’s ambassador to the United States, will visit the UW-Madison campus Thursday, May 12. During his visit to Madison, Mr. Levitte will meet with UW-Madison faculty, staff and students, as well as with government and business leaders.
Although University of Wisconsin-Madison professors Wesley Smith and David Schwartz operate in completely different scientific spheres – one seeking to explore the fundamental properties of matter and the other trying to wrest free the secrets of the human genome – both have the same dilemma: They are awash in a sea of data.
Vintage fixtures cast off from a renovation of the Wisconsin State Capitol will be made available on May 14 during a unique sale managed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison SWAP Shop.
By bringing together a diverse group of scientific interests to share a large, distributed computing resource, the Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW) itself has become an important subject of research.
With the greatest of ease Taking a break from end-of-the-spring-semester academic stress, undergraduate student Jared Harvey enjoys the thrill of Monkey Motion’s harnessed free jumping on Library Mall during Bucky’s Carnival, an All-Campus Party event sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Student Board. Provided by the vendor Kid Again, the contraption includes four pairs of hydraulic …
Appointed Howard Moore, a former UW basketball player, returns to Madison as an assistant coach for the men’s basketball team. Moore played for the Badgers from 1992-95 and was part of the 1993 NIT team and 1994 NCAA Tournament team. The Board of Regents appointed six professors to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation named professorships, which …
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society recognized botany professor Tom Sharkey with its Teaching Award. The following students were inducted this spring into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society: Jeffery William Ernest Alborn Erin Kathleen Antisdel Katherine Elizabeth Arner Jenna Lauren Bauer Eric M. Becker Jesse S. Beder Kathryn Berg Matthew Berg Jevechius Bernardoni Lynn Ann …
Hilldale Awards The following students received Hilldale Undergraduate Research Awards, which include a $4,000 stipend to each student and $1,000 to their faculty advisers. The list below includes students, faculty advisers and advisers’ departments. Sarah Abramovitz, John Curtin, psychology; Kirsten Austad, Nader Sheibani, ophthalmology and visual sciences; Kristen Becklund, Robert Goodman, plant pathology; Matthew Berg, …
Registration is open for this summer’s Wisconsin Union Mini Courses. Most of the courses begin the week of June 20.
Sand Mansions: A Novel (NEMO Productions, distributed by University of Wisconsin Press, 2005) Norman Gilliland, producer, Wisconsin Public Radio Gilliland’s first novel, “Sand Mansions,” follows the fortunes of one Nathaniel Larrabee in the years following the Civil War. Larrabee takes a whopper of a wrong turn. In leaving Missouri for the gold fields of Dakota, …
The scientist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of ivermectin — the drug that combats river blindness in humans, heartworm in dogs and a broad spectrum of parasites in horses and other livestock — will receive an honorary degree from UW-Madison on Friday, May 13.
When you visit UW-Madison’s main Web site during June, you’ll see the results of a complex project to redesign and reorganize access to the university’s vast online resources.
“Podcasting” is the new buzzword for sending audio over the Internet, and faculty and staff on campus are looking at it as an outreach vehicle and an academic tool.
This summer’s demolition of a former bank building will clear the way for construction of a five-story addition to Grainger Hall that will be home to graduate programs in the School of Business.
The UW-Madison Arboretum and the Friends of Campus Natural Areas, among other groups, have a number of activities guaranteed to get you off the hammock.