Gabe Javier: Sharing stories to help others share their own
Since arriving in August, Gabe Javier, assistant dean of students and director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Campus Center, has hit the ground running.
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Forum participants spend day discussing diversity issues
As an expert in educational practice and policy as it relates to diverse student populations, Pedro Noguera summarized the nation’s dilemma repeatedly in his address to more than 500 participants at the annual UW-Madison Diversity Forum, held Oct. 6.
Birdseye view of Wisconsin’s past wins governor’s award
A popular website that draws from tens of thousands of rare aerial photographs of Wisconsin will receive the 2011 Governor’s Award for Archival Innovation from the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board.
Vice chancellor named to task force studying UW System
The membership of a task force to study the UW System’s structure and possible administrative flexibilities was completed Monday when Gov. Scott Walker named its final two members, including UW-Madison Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell.
Celebrate “Wisconsin Alumni Association Day” on Oct. 14
If you live in Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee – or anywhere in Wisconsin – Friday is a perfect day to thank a Badger.
Wall Street economist to speak on campus
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Stephen S. Roach, Ph.D, one of Wall Street’s most influential economists, will visit campus this week to address the topic of “Pitfalls in a Post-Crisis World: Moment of Truth for Global Rebalancing.”
Building a new cadre of science faculty, center makes next big leap
The national experiment to develop a new generation of college science and engineering faculty, one equipped to excel in the classroom as well as the lab, is about to shift into high gear.
Universities included in CIRTL Network
The following 25 universities will be included in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning Network, it was announced today (Oct. 10).
Research explores virus movement in Madison groundwater
According to the conventional wisdom, drinking water taken from a deep aquifer protected by a semi-permeable layer of rock should be protected from many contaminants, including viruses.
Recent sightings: An autumnal terrace
Photos by Jeff Miller During an unusually mild autumn season, the changing color of oak leaves frame a view of a man studying using his laptop computer at the Memorial Union Terrace on Oct. 6, 2011. With a trusty longboard at her side, undergraduate Monica Nigon studies using her laptop computer at the Memorial Union …
University, private-sector collaboration brings Bucky Wagon back for Homecoming
Decades of rust, bent running boards and unreliable cable brakes and steering aren’t suitable for a campus icon.
Psychologist to explain 3-D perception to National Geographic audience
Bas Rokers, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will illustrate how our brains process visual motion and depth during the three-part National Geographic television series “Brain Games.”
Decade of effort yields diabetes susceptibility gene
Ten years of meticulous mouse breeding, screening and record-keeping have finally paid off for Alan Attie and his lab members.
IceCube Research Center names first Bahcall Fellowship winners
The IceCube Research Center (IRC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has selected two promising astrophysicists as the first recipients of the John Bahcall Fellowship for neutrino astronomy.
Electricity from the nose: Engineers make power from human respiration
The same effect that ignites your gas grill with the push of a button could one day power sensors in your body via the respiration in your nose.
Eleven professors appointed to named professorships
Eleven distinguished faculty members have received named professorships, some of the highest honors for established faculty.
Pro Arte Quartet turns 100, celebrates with new commissions, free concerts, lectures
To celebrate its centennial year, the Pro Arte Quartet has commissioned original works from four contemporary composers, all of which will be given their world premieres during the 2011-12 season.
UW–Madison celebrates a century of Homecoming
Bucky Badger is among those celebrating 100 years of Homecoming at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to the tune of “Bucky Badger’s 100 Greatest Hits,” this year’s Homecoming theme.
Clocking the mosh pit of interstellar space
The space between the stars in the Milky Way and all other galaxies is full of dust and gas, the raw materials from which stars and planets are made.
Interim Chancellor Ward’s appointment extended
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly announced today that he is extending UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward’s interim appointment to two years.