Campuswide fire drills scheduled this week
Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to listen for and participate in campus building fire/building evacuation drills taking place today through Thursday across campus. Read More
Researchers capture speedy chemical reaction in mid-stride
In synthetic chemistry, making the best possible use of the needed ingredients is key to optimizing high-quality production at the lowest possible cost. Read More
Presidential panel taps political scientist’s election expertise
UW–Madison political science professor Barry Burden is helping provide academic research to a bipartisan presidential commission looking into how to improve federal elections. Read More
UW-Madison center makes better professors of young scientists
The UW–Madison-based Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation — funding that will help train 7,000 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows each year. Read More
UW participates in Celebrate South Madison festival
The connection between UW–Madison and a vibrant neighborhood community will be renewed this weekend during the Celebrate South Madison festival. Read More
UW campus community digs into “A Tale for the Time Being”
“A Tale for the Time Being” is a sprawling book that spans both time and the globe, but at heart, it’s a story about the relationship between a writer and a reader. The new novel from critically acclaimed and best-selling author Ruth Ozeki is the selection for the fifth year of Go Big Read, UW–Madison’s common-reading program. Read More
Dean of Students Office responds to Lakelawn fire
After a structural fire in the Langdon St. neighborhood caused an estimated $125,000 in damage, the University of Wisconsin–Madison community is reaching out to assist those displaced by the fire. Read More
UWPD warns about recent off-campus armed robberies
In the wake of the third armed robbery in the area surrounding the UW–Madison campus in the last week, UWPD is asking students to put a special emphasis on personal safety in their off-campus apartments and houses. Read More
UW-Madison alumnus wins major award for exploring chemistry of the nervous system
Richard Scheller, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a B.S. in biochemistry in 1974, has shared the 2013 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for work explaining how messenger chemicals move between nerve cells. Read More
Scripts and the City
As New York City’s special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget Brennan has seen the city’s drug habit shift from the needle to the crack pipe to the prescription pad. Read More
MPD seeks information on Vilas Avenue armed robbery
Madison police are investigating the armed robbery of three male UW students in the 1200 block of Vilas Avenue around 11:15 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8. Read More
Free mobile Wisconsin Fish Identification tools now available
Exactly 174 Wisconsin fish can now fit into your pocket. And they’re not even wet, or smelly. Visit UW Sea Grant’s Wisconsin Fish Identification website seagrant.wisc.edu/fishid and download the free Android or iOS app to quickly identify the fish of Wisconsin’s lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. There is a mobile website as well. Read More
Nominations accepted for new Classified Staff Executive Committee
Nominations for UW–Madison’s first-ever Classified Staff Executive Committee are being sought from classified staff members. Nine people will be elected, representing nearly 5,000 employees. Read More
Accessible Observatory Hill shuttle offered
Getting up Observatory Hill will now be easier for members of the campus community who are not physically able to make the trip. A new, accessible shuttle is being provided by Transportation Services and will run until the Route 80 campus bus can once again return to its regular route. Read More
The name’s the same: Better watch how you fill in the Blank
With more than 60,000 students, faculty and staff on campus, a few prominent names are bound to repeat — sometimes with unexpected results. Here are a few of UW–Madison’s name-tag doppelgängers, including David Ward, Liz Waters and Gary Anderson/Andersen. Read More
Weather: More data + more computers = better forecasts
Been beefing about weather forecasts? Did the “experts” miss a thunderstorm, botch the rainfall prediction, mistake cloudy for sunny or windy for calm? You’re not alone. Forecasts of weather are already way better than forecasts of, say, unemployment or grain harvests, but that doesn’t lead us to predict that the caterwauling over weather forecasts will dampen. Read More
Recent Sightings: MCOR 2013
Members of the African Student Association perform during the Multicultural Orientation and Reception (MCOR) event at Union South on Sept. 6. Photo:… Read More