What do Americans love more than French fries and potato chips? Not much-but perhaps we love them more than we ought to. Fat and calories aside, both foods contain high levels of a compound called acrylamide, a potential carcinogen.
For a century, Wisconsin’s traditional metal-working industries spawned a broad and profitable series of tool-and-diemaking firms that marketed nationwide.
Bruce Maas, chief information officer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been selected as the next information technology leader at UW-Madison, Provost Paul M. DeLuca, Jr. announced today (June 8).
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has solved a 25-year mystery that may lead to better treatments for people with learning deficits and mental retardation.
They spent most of the past year inventing a shelf-stable yogurt truffle, a beverage mix made with real fruit and a tangerine-flavored carbonated dairy beverage drink. Now three teams of University of Wisconsin-Madison students are headed to New Orleans to see how their ideas fare in the final rounds of two national food product development competitions being held at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) annual meeting this weekend.
A five-year, $9.5 million grant has been awarded to a collaborative research program led by the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has selected “Enrique’s Journey” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario as the book for the third year of Go Big Read, the university’s common reading program.
As the temperature soared into the 90s on June 7, 2011, hundreds of people beat the heat by enjoying servings of Babcock Dairy ice cream, yogurt or a dairy-free alternative during the annual Employee Appreciation Ice Cream Social on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The event features “celebrity scoopers” — including administrators, deans …
Alumni, students, fans and friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison cast nearly 7,000 votes to select a spirited design for the next The Red Shirt, now in its fourth edition.
Science teachers will have a unique opportunity to get inside evolution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has a long history of evolutionary researchers.
For the first time since 2008, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Student Orientation, Advising and Registration (SOAR) will take place in Union South, returning the program’s original, but greatly enhanced, home base.
Mark your calendar for the annual Employee Appreciation Ice Cream Social, which is scheduled for Tuesday, June 7, at 1:30 p.m. on Bascom Hill.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 933 acres of campus will serve as both host and laboratory when university architects from across the U.S. and Canada descend on Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan will headline a Wisconsin School of Business conference on new partnerships between government and real estate.
Cora Marrett, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 26 to serve as deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
UW Transportation Services is once again partnering with the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin to promote various Bike to Work Week events throughout town. Check out the Madison Bike To Work Week webpage for information on commuter stations, biking to work with Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, and the bike-in movie finale party. Another part of the …
The Division of Student Life has appointed Donte Hilliard as new director of the Multicultural Student Center (MSC). Hilliard has served as the MSC’s interim Director since September 2010 and also has assistant director experience at both UW-Madison and Purdue University. Associate Dean Argyle Wade, chair of the search committee, says he’s happy with the …
Dear members of the UW-Madison community, I am pleased to report that key state lawmakers, with input from UW-Madison and UW System, have reached a compromise that will help the campuses develop more effective ways of operating. The agreement by members of the state Legislature’s budget-writing Joint Finance Committee begins to reform the business model …
The three finalists for the position of Albert O. Nicholas Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be on campus in coming days.
Nathan Wolfe, an epidemiologist leading an effort to catch the next pandemic disease before it hits, will give the public a window into the big thinkers speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Big Learning Event.