Peter Muir, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, has been honored with the American Veterinary Medical Foundation/American Kennel Club Career Achievement Award in Canine Research from the American Veterinary Medical Association.
The La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host a half-day conference to set the stage for Gov. Scott Walker’s attempts to establish clear, plentiful and sophisticated information for judging the quality of almost every school in Wisconsin.
An award-winning University of Wisconsin-Madison student hybrid vehicle will become a showcase for advanced fuel technology that harnesses the advantages of both diesel and gasoline.
Now one of the most successful long-term diversity pipelines to higher education in the nation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) program will again increase the number of college-ready students applying to the state’s flagship campus.
Physicist William F. “Jack” Fry, who served on the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty from 1952 to 1998, died earlier this week at the age of 89. Fry, of Madison, was an avid historian and collector of Italian manuscripts. He was also an important contributor to the UW-Madison Libraries, donating more than 40,000 books and documents …
Campus facilities officials reported Thursday that they were able to meet the cooling needs of UW-Madison overnight and that the air-conditioning situation appears to have returned to near-normal conditions.
As she prepares for a year in South Africa, University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Erika Dickerson-Despenza has many priorities: saying goodbye to friends, adapting to a new culture.
Visitor & Information Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has moved its administrative office to the new Union South.
Anne Lundin is carrying on a tradition at an idyllic campus spot steeped in storytelling history.
A person’s high school class rank is good for more than just getting into a prestigious college.
Byron Crouse, associate dean for rural and community health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), has been selected to receive the 2011 Thomas W. Johnson Award by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
Countries around the world are ramping up investments in higher education in a push to create world-class research institutions. At the same time, the top research universities in the United States are confronting the challenges of dwindling resources and support.
At the heart of most celestial objects is a dynamo. The Earth’s dynamo, spun to life in the molten metal core of our planet, generates a magnetic field that helps us find north and, perhaps more critically, shields us from solar winds that would otherwise singe our planet.
Olympic runner Suzy Favor Hamilton, a 1991 graduate of UW-Madison, runs through a human tunnel created during a Movin’ Minds exercise class with nearly 100 middle-school students held outside of the Kohl Center on July 19, 2011. Organized in a partnership between Favor Hamilton and UW-Madison’s Precollege OPTIONS in Education Outreach and Partnerships, the weeklong …
Undergraduate Jenna Mertz, an intern with the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, uses a hand spreader to disperse a mixture of grass and wildflower seeds in Muir Woods near the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path on July 13, 2011. The Lakeshore Nature Preserve staff are engaged in a restoration project designed to clear undesirable brush from the woodland …
Interim Chancellor David Ward today announced the appointment of Mark Bugher, director of University Research Park, to be his special assistant on a variety of policy issues.
The Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources, a unit of University Health Services (UHS) at UW–Madison, has submitted a grant application to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for $4.7 million a year in public health funding over five years to combat chronic disease in Wisconsin. The application, to the CDC’s Community Transformation Grant …