Back in the heartland
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, holds a place for Madison in his heart. And he will renew his connections May 13-15 as he makes his third visit here in the past two decades.
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UW Technology Enterprise Competition winners announced
Engineering student Eric Iverson and business student Brian Weiss are the first-place $10,000 winners for best technology based business plan in the 1998 UW-Madison Technology Enterprise Competition.
Education research group joins Milwaukee schools study
A new project at UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research will collaborate with the Milwaukee Public Schools to study systemic school reform aimed at improving student achievement in the district.
Geology museum open house set for May 2
Dinosaur masks, a free rock pile for kids and a special exhibit of mineral and fossil stamps are a few of the highlights of this year’s UW-Madison Geology Museum open house Saturday, May 2 from 1-5 p.m.
Researchers track cause of energy loss in superconducting
High-temperature superconducting materials have almost limitless potential but are often less ‘super’ in real performance. A UW-Madison experiment has found a surprising contributor to this energy sink.
Five faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences announced April 28 that five UW-Madison faculty were among those elected to membership in the prestigious organization.
Dalai Lama’s address to be televised
As a public service, the Television Wisconsin Network and Wisconsin Public Television will broadcast the Dalai Lama’s speech from the Kohl Center Wednesday evening, May 13.
Dance prof presents cross-cultural, multimedia concert
A cross-cultural and multimedia dance concert featuring new works by UW-Madison dance professor Jin-Wen Yu will be presented April 30 and May 1-2 at 8 p.m. in the new Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall.
Two faculty win NSF career awards
Two College of Engineering faculty members have each received four-year, $200,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation.
Law professor helps draft revision to probate code
A UW-Madison law professor helped draft a sweeping revision to the state laws that dictate the transfer of wealth and property through wills and estates.
UW team crafts a cooler to study X-rays
Building space flight hardware sounds pretty glamorous to a lot of us: working with state-of-the-art equipment to create instruments that will fly in outer space, enhancing humankind’s understanding of the universe. But when you get down to the nitty gritty, it can be far less so.
Pray named distinguished educator
Lloyd C. Pray, emeritus professor of geology and geophysics, has been named a 1998 recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the world’s largest geoscience association.
UW-Madison provides self-report to NCAA
A comprehensive self-review of the UW-Madison Athletic Department booster and support organization accounts has concluded that a number of reimbursements and payments to department staff may have inadvertently violated NCAA rules.
Electron accelerator sheds light on gene repair in living cells
With the unlikely but invaluable help of physicists, engineers and an electron accelerator, UW Medical School molecular biologists have found a way to examine how damaged genes are repaired in living cells.
Bibliography of children’s books now available
Choices 1997, an annotated bibliography of books for children and young adults published in the last year, is now available from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the School of Education.
Three faculty receive Guggenheim Fellowships
Three UW-Madison professors have received 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, which provide scholars and artists with unrestricted grants to further their research.
UW biochemist solves riddle of collagen stability
A UW-Madison research team has overturned a central theory about the stability of collagen, a protein that acts like a ‘solder’ to give the body its structure and shape.
‘Boy Friend’ herald of spring
In the spring, it is rumored, the fancies of the young lightly turn not to golf, but to love. Consequently, the University Theatre will cap its 1998 season with ‘The Boy Friend,’ a terribly romantic musical spoof of a 70-year-old genre.
The row less taken
UW-Madison’s rowing teams have been bringing home trophies for nearly 100 years without jostling the slumbering attentions of Madison sports fans. And that’s a shame, because UW rowing is one of the most remarkable athletic dynasties around.
Study examines effectiveness of academic redshirting
A new study by a UW-Madison researcher of academic redshirting – the decision to delay a child’s entry into kindergarten that many parents are facing right now – calls into question the old adage of ‘If in doubt, hold them out.’