Spring series explores Art and Life Art and Life, a semester-long series on music, dance and visual art, features a nationally known dancer and choreographer, and one of Chicago’s most important art critics and writers. The events are sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries. Two exhibits will be held at Special Collections, 976 …
With contributions still coming in, pledges for the annual Partners in Giving campaign topped $2.53 million as of Jan. 13 ? about 87 percent of the goal.
Think winter activities in Wisconsin — skiing, snowboarding, ice fishing and … horseback riding? Darn tootin’! The Hoofer Equestrian Center located just south of Madison near Belleville, is open for business even when the snow flies.
The Dance Program has a full and innovative schedule planned for the spring semester. In addition to showcasing works by students, faculty and guest artists in the coming months, the program will host a regional festival for hundreds of college dance students March 13-16.
Science Expeditions 2003, a series of outreach events throughout April, will welcome the public to explore the campus and experience science as discovery.
Professors Harvey Jacobs and David Trubek have been awarded Fulbright senior specialist grants, giving them an opportunity to travel, lecture and collaborate with their peers abroad.
Poncho Sanchez, the ‘king of Latin music,’ returns to the Wisconsin Union Theater on Saturday, Feb 8, at 8 p.m., and ticket holders will be able to continue dancing after all the encores are over.
A leading scholar of Renaissance English literature at UW-Madison will examine lyric poetry in the early modern period under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Seeing is believing, says the old adage. And this February, the general public will believe that physics surrounds our everyday lives when UW-Madison physics professor Clint Sprott shows them spectacular examples of physical phenomena during six demonstrations called, “The Wonders of Physics.”
A UW-Madison food scientist is using new technology to tackle an old problem in cheesemaking – and the solution could mean both a bigger market for the state’s dairy producers and reduced costs for cheesemakers.
Madison Gas and Electric Co. and UW-Madison plan an informational open house Tuesday, Jan. 7, to update the public on the status of an MGE power plant to be located on campus.
Joanne Berg, interim registrar at UW-Madison since January 2002, has been selected to lead the office on a permanent basis, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows has announced.
In June, Pete Disher returned from a six-month Air National Guard deployment in Kuwait with the Madison-based 115th Fighter Wing Security Forces Squadron to his job as a UW Police Department security officer
Darrell Bazzell, a veteran Wisconsin state government administrator and current secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, has been selected to be UW-Madison’s new vice chancellor for administration.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Kohl Center
December 22, 2002
After having been a member of the American Chemical Society for 40 years, UW-Madison chemistry professor Charles Casey will become its president.
The music of Leonard Bernstein will be sung with polish and elegance on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003 at 8 p.m. when Joyce Castle and Kurt Ollman bring their all Bernstein program to the Wisconsin Union Theater.
UW-Madison professors Gilbert Nathanson and Linda Sparke have been elected to the Fellowship program at the American Physical Society, a worldwide federation of more than 42,000 physicists.
The slightest turn of the head can significantly change the way a person or animal detects sound. A subtle tilt alters the angle at which high-frequency sound waves hit the ear, providing cues to localize the sound. To use those cues, the brain must put what it hears into the context of the position of the head. Until recently, scientists were not sure how this was done.
Wisconsin Alumni Association officials are encouraging Badger football fans to finalize and book their trips this week to the Alamo Bowl.