Mohammad Douglah, faculty associate of continuing and vocational education in the Department of Agricultural Journalism, says Iraq needs to be liberated by Iraqis, with help from the United States.
Whole new worlds of human experience, history, vehicles of expression and even her own American past opened wide to Michelle Gordon when she first read W.E.B. Du Bois’ landmark collection of essays, “The Souls of Black Folk.”
This April, UW-Madison welcomes learners of all ages to explore the campus and experience science as discovery during a month-long open house called ‘Science Expeditions.’
This month, the Land Tenure Center at UW-Madison is helping organize conferences that examine critical land issues in two very different areas of the world: the Caribbean and southern Africa.
Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton) and Diane Hardt, tax administrator for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and co-chair of the Streamlined Sales Tax Project, will discuss Internet taxation and more at a half-day workshop on e-business legal issues sponsored by the UW Consortium for Global eCommerce.
An investigation by the UW-Madison chancellor’s office into allegations that a small number of football players cheated on a take-home final examination reaffirms the chancellor’s original decision to let them compete in the 2002 Alamo Bowl, Dec. 28.
UW-Madison will hold a public hearing on Thursday, March 13 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on proposed west campus power plant facility options.
The largest used book sale in Wisconsin, to be held March 5-8 at UW-Madison will include more than 15,000 books covering almost any subject.
Even as it busily prepares for a landmark symposium on African-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois, the Department of Afro-American Studies is reinventing itself.
Employees of the UW System are eligible to apply for a scholarship to the UW-Madison’s Executive MBA program.
A UW-Madison professor will be part of a 10-day fact-finding trip during May to investigate Cuba’s transformation from chemical-intensive, industrial agriculture to sustainable and organic agriculture.
Wherever we live, pollution lives with us. Whether it’s chemical runoff from farms or loud music booming down the street, pollution touches us not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally, according to a new book by Colleen Moore, a psychology professor at UW-Madison.
In response to the March 5 demonstration against the possibility of war in the Middle East, Chancellor John D. Wiley issued the following statement today.
With the help of a novel scheme developed by chemists at UW-Madison for chemically modifying diamond, the age of the inexpensive, compact sensor that can continuously scan airports, subways and battlefields for the slightest trace of biological weapons may be at hand. Coupled with modern electronics, the new sensors would not only be able to detect nearby biological agents, but also sound alarms and even call for help.
UW-Madison and its patent management organization, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, rank near the top of the university intellectual property class of 2002, according to the United States Patent Office.
1992 Disclosures: 174 Patents: 41 1993 Disclosures: 152 Patents: 57 1994 Disclosures: 154 Patents: 53 1995 Disclosures: 202 Patents: 47 1996 Disclosures: 227 Patents: 69 1997 Disclosures: 218 Patents: 65 1998 Disclosures: 221 Patents: 85 1999 Disclosures: 319 Patents: 90 2000 Disclosures: 309 Patents: 80 2001 Disclosures: 301 Patents: 88 2002 Disclosures: 293 Patents: 81
A public informational meeting concerning the West Johnson Street reconstruction project will be held on Monday, March 10, from 7-8:30 p.m. at Union South. A formal presentation is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
The UW Arts Institute has selected the recipients of its 2003 awards in the arts. Honorees, who were judged on creative inquiry, outreach and professional excellence, will be recognized at a program and reception on April 25.
Capitalizing on what they learned from studying lowly tapeworms, scientists at UW-Madison believe they may have found a way to make drugs more effective in their delivery. This research holds out the promise of lowering dosage and cost, and eliminating wasted medicine.
Advisers from across the Upper Midwest and Canada will gather at UW-Madison on Sunday-Tuesday, March 23-25, to examine the critical role they play in the development and success of their students.