Romnes Awards honor 10 rising faculty stars
Ten of UW–Madison's top young faculty have received 1998 Romnes Awards, which help reward new professors who are making an immediate mark on their fields. Read More
JASON Web site brings Great Lakes fish to Madison-area schools
The UW Sea Grant Institute recently unveiled the Madison JASON IX Web site, which features ten fish that live in the Great Lakes. Read More
‘Turbo Mule’ wins student invention competition
Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about carrying items from one place to another. Three students who did have won $10,000 for their effort. Read More
WPT documentary captures Badger football history
The players, passion and pageantry of UW football are captured in 'U Rah Rah Wisconsin: A History of Badger Football,' a new documentary produced by Wisconsin Public Television. Read More
Cargill helps UW expand international internship offerings
The Minneapolis-based Cargill Corp. is helping UW–Madison students take their first plunge into the global marketplace. Read More
Math professor earns Birkhoff Prize
Paul H. Rabinowitz, a professor of mathematics, has been awarded the 1998 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics. Read More
‘Ice Storm’ Screenwriter To Visit UW–Madison
Screenwriter and independent producer James Schamus will make a visit to campus in the wake of publicity over his most critically acclaimed work. Read More
DoIT announces student trainee program
A Student Computer Network Trainee Program has been created by the DoIT as a way to meet the shortage of qualified employees in the computing field, give students marketable skills and help fill the need for computing staff on campus. Read More
Oscar-winning computer graphics pioneer reveals tricks in new course
A few dozen select students this spring are learning the ropes from a guy who invented one of Today's Big Things: A software program that helps movie-makers bend the laws of nature. Read More
UW seeks county support for student radio tower
An effort to bring UW–Madison student radio to the airwaves has cleared nearly every hurdle, but a battle over the proposed radio tower site could end the plan. Read More
Proquest brings 2,000 journals to your desktop
The General Library System has added more horsepower to its collection of electronic databases: Proquest Research Library. Read More
Aberle named dean of College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Elton D. Aberle, head of the animal sciences department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was named today as dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences by Chancellor David Ward. Read More
Several graduate programs ranked high by U.S. News
Several academic programs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ranked high in the 1998 rating of graduate programs released today (Feb. 20) by U.S. News & World Report. Read More
What’s in an ecosystem? New journal seeks to answer
UW-Madison zoology Professors Monica G. Turner and Stephen R. Carpenter are the first co-editors of Ecosystems, a new journal intended to be a focal point for original research, reviews, editorials and special features on ecosystem ecology. Read More
The Leopold Legacy: Zedler cultivates UW’s rich tradition in restoration ecology
As the new Aldo Leopold Chair of Restoration Ecology, Joy Zedler will be cultivating the legacy of one of UW–Madison's most influential professors, a man whose ideas form the roots of modern conservation. Read More
Whose welfare? Book calls for new attention to children
As new welfare reform programs take effect across the nation, more effort is needed to measure how those reforms will impact children, according to a new book edited by sociology professor Robert Hauser. Read More
Filmmaker named to creative-arts professorship
Nietzchka Keene has been named to the Emily Mead Baldwin Bell-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts, effective July 1. The appointment was approved Feb. 6 by the UW System Board of Regents. Read More
Art, music to collaborate in UW–Madison concert
'Picture' this: artist Gronk wielding amplified paint brushes to conduct the acclaimed Kronos Quartet in the Midwest premiere of composer Joseph Julian Gonzales' 'La Tormenta Cantata.' Read More
Summer job fair Feb. 19
Students seeking summer employment will be offered a leg up at the 1998 Summer Job Fair Feb. 19 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. in Memorial Union's Great Hall and Tripp Commons. Read More
University Theatre performs farce by Nobelist Dario Fo
UW Theatre will open its spring semester season Feb. 19 with a performance of We won't pay! We won't pay! by Italian playwright Dario Fo, recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Read More