Social critic Williams to speak Oct. 16
Prominent social critic and Columbia University law professor Patricia Williams will discuss racial profiling in the kick-off lecture of the Center for the Humanities "Humanities Without Boundaries" Distinguished Lecture Series.
FAST program to serve Hmong, Muscovites
Wisconsin Center for Education Research researcher Lynn McDonald and colleagues have been awarded grants to adapt their program Families and Schools Together to serve Russian students in Moscow and Hmong immigrant families in Wausau.
Textiles’ myriad meanings to be explored
Human ecology professor Beverly Gordon will examines the myriad meanings of textiles in an upcoming presentation at the university.
Two get Underkofler Awards
Two UW–Madison professors are among the four outstanding UW System teachers who have received Alliant Energy Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Awards.
Gene barrier could boost farming, environment
Working with teosinte, a wild cousin of maize, a university scientist has found a molecular barrier that, bred into modern hybrid corn, is capable of completely locking out foreign genes, including those from genetically modified corn.
Proposal aims to enhance lakeshore path
Retaining the unpaved portion of the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path and preventing further erosion are two key recommendations to enhance bicycle and pedestrian safety along the popular campus transportation route.
Chemistry alum awarded Nobel Prize
Alan Graham MacDiarmid, a chemistry masters and Ph.D graduate of UW–Madison, is co-winner of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries of polymers that conduct electricity.
Alum receives Nobel Prize in physics
Jack St. Clair Kilby, a 1950 masters degree graduate in electrical engineering, has been named a co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics.
Community invited to ‘lite up the town’
Madison-area residents are being invited to decorate the exterior of their residences to express Badger pride and the 'Madtown Mardi Gras' Homecoming theme.
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Primate center grant to boost library resources
The Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center Library will receive a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the National Center for Research Resources to boost the library's staff and resources so that it can more effectively work with the greater primatological research community.
Calendar highlights
WAA’s Cabinet 99 events to showcase technology Women from around the country will have a chance Friday, Nov. 3, to participate in hands-on…
Council ring history comes full circle
The curve seems to come from the heart of the hillside, a line in the landscape that is a both a balm to the eye and a grace note to the hill.
Events Bulletin
Learning History of Medicine – Jubilee Celebration: 1950-2000 Friday, Oct. 27 3-4:30 p.m. University Lecture: 227 Service Memorial Institute, 470…
Political scientist tracks funding sources
Ken Goldstein, a new political scientist at UW–Madison, is to journalists right now as an epicenter is to seismologists. The media are…
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News in Brief
COMMUNITY Alum receives Nobel Jack St. Clair Kilby, a 1950 master’s degree graduate in electrical engineering, has been named a…
Recent sightings
Reflecting on e-commerce A glass door captures real and reflected business professionals perhaps pondering the realities and illusions of electronic…