Adam Gamoran, professor of sociology and educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected as director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) in the university’s School of Education.
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and the membership of SEIU District 1199 Wisconsin, which represents approximately 1,400 health care professionals, including registered nurses, therapists and dietitians at the hospital and clinics, have both approved a new, four-year contract. Registered nurses at the hospital will receive 6.5 percent across-the-board increases, plus wage scale increases and …
Professional athletes, including cyclists and distance runners, will soon have a powerful new tool to predict energy expenditure and performance over a race, thanks to a unique collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Saris Cycling Group of Madison.
Dean Gary Sandefur has announced that Jon Miller, professor of communicative disorders and director of the Waisman Center’s Language Analysis Laboratory, has been named interim associate dean for research policy and outreach in the College of Letters and Science.
Results of the just-released Dane County Economic Survey forecast a strong economic outlook for 2005.
A senior University of Wisconsin-Madison research administrator has been recognized with a national award for her contributions to the profession of research administration.
Carl Gulbrandsen is the managing director of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and president of WiCell Research Institute Governor Doyle’s proposal for the new public/private Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is an absolutely critical step for UW-Madison and Wisconsin to retain its national leadership in stem cell research. This multi disciplinary facility will have tremendous positive synergies …
For a cadre of Law School students, the business of business is, well, blogging.
The Forestry Club will hold its 27th annual holiday tree sale Dec. 3-5 at the Stock Pavilion, 1675 Linden Drive.
Musicians from the neighborhood where salsa was born and, some say, grew up will play at the Wisconsin Union Theater on Saturday, Nov. 20.
Artists Leslee Nelson and Bobbette Rose are exhibiting their work at the Women’s Studies Research Center through December.
Canadian choreographer Allen Kaeja, currently in residence in the Dance Program, will screen his new film, “Old Country,” at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19 and his dances will be featured in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20.
HONORED The No. 1 ranked Badgers Men’s Cross Country Team won its sixth consecutive Big Ten Conference championship last month by a record 81 points. Wisconsin won with 23 points, the fourth-lowest point total in championship history. Defending champion Simon Bairu won the 8000-meter race in 23 minutes, 45 seconds. Teammates Chris Solinsky and Matt …
UW-Madison is engaged in a multiyear effort to better connect transfer students to the campus in the wake of an extensive review that identified broad themes about their experiences and areas of possible improvement.
In the first scientific article to come from its pioneering studies of long-term Buddhist meditation practitioners, a UW-Madison team has found that long-term meditators (or “adepts”) show markedly different patterns of brain electrical oscillations compared to a group with no previous meditative experience, when both of them generated a standard meditative practice.
When Truman Lowe speaks about his trip to Minnesota’s North Shore in early 2000 to visit with George Morrison, his voice conveys a deep respect.
Fading days of fall Pictured is a silhouetted view looking through an ivy-covered, semicircle window at Moore Hall. The hall is home to the departments of agronomy and horticulture. (Photo: Jeff Miller) Masterful moment Standing onstage before an informal audience of nearly 70 people on Nov. 10, violinist Midori lends a critical ear while working …
The hidden architecture of the botanical world has mesmerized Wisconsin artist Vala Mohr.
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Employee Compensation & Benefits Services hosted its 14th annual Benefits Fair on Oct. 13 in the Memorial Union.