UW-Madison students compete for national title in advertising competition
Finishing school, making rent, finding a first job, hanging out with friends – all top concerns of young adults.
Finishing school, making rent, finding a first job, hanging out with friends – all top concerns of young adults.
Officials say 59 businesses responded to a “request for information,” to help pinpoint the sources of biomass fuel for a renovated, coal-free Charter Street Heating Plant. “The message is clear: we have biomass businesses right here in our own state that want to grow,” says Gov. Jim Doyle. “This is an enormous economic opportunity for …
The “mineral-breathing” bacteria found in many oxygen-free environments may be “carbon-breathing” as well.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will close on Friday, May 21 as a mandated furlough day for most of its employees.
The SouthEast Wisconsin Master Gardeners have been sharing their gardens’ abundance at an annual plant sale for years. They dig and divide thousands of perennials, everything from astilbes to zinnias, that shoppers stand in line to buy. Irises, daylilies and hostas are plentiful. Trilliums go quickly.
Family structure affects a child’s economic mobility prospects, according to a new study co-authored by professor Thomas DeLeire of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs for the Pew Economic Policy Group’s report, “Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children.”
Incoming biology students at University of Wisconsin-Madison will get extensive new help navigating the tricky transition from high school to a university that has 31 different majors related to biology, funded by a $1.4 million undergraduate science education grant announced today by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
It’s been an eventful 100 years.
The authors of a new book about informing policymaking with research have devoted their careers to bridging the gap between the research and public policy communities.
By adding a subtle nudge to each of more than 1 billion search requests every day, Google may be steering the direction of public discussion.
Traffic patterns will be altered on several campus-area streets again this summer as the final phase of the East Campus Utility Project begins on Monday, May 17. The work is expected to continue through mid-August.
When the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds held grand-opening events May 15-16, a familiar guest was on hand to celebrate the occasion. As he has a number of times — most recently in 2007 — His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama traveled to Madison to continue ongoing work with the new center’s …
The Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the Wisconsin School of Business will host a conference called “Navigating the Credit Crunch: What’s Ahead for Wisconsin?” on Friday, June 4, from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Fluno Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Commencement ceremonies — the crowning achievement of each academic year — are taking place on campus this weekend.
A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomores have organized a three-day bus trip for more than 40 Chinese and U.S. students this weekend, aiming to bring together people from the world’s superpowers through what they call “campfire diplomacy.”
The class of 2010 will produce a number of noteworthy graduates who did great things with their experience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In advance of this weekend’s commencement, we have profiled just a few of their successes.