A public meeting to detail plans to renovate the Charter Street Heating Plant and present the findings of a draft environmental impact statement on the project will be held Wednesday, May 5.
Seventeen undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are the first recipients of new need-based scholarships in environmental studies that promote community service.
The William T. Grant Foundation has appointed a UW-Madison education professor to the 2010 class of William T. Grant Scholars, an elite group of early-career researchers studying ways to improve the lives of youth.
The Institute for Research on Poverty will welcome two important figures to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May to present seminars on economic issues that affect everyone but which hit the poor especially hard.
Students in Josh Reineking’s kindergarten class at Glenn Stephens Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin, visit a lecture during Political Science 104: Introduction to American National Government, a course taught by Professor Ken Mayer and held at Agricultural Hall. During this now annual event, the children attempt to stump Mayer with their questions, while also experiencing …
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will honor television broadcaster Tom Bier, vice president and station manager of WISC-TV and Channel 3000.com, with its first “Wisconsin Commitment to Journalism Ethics Award” on Friday, April 30.
Today the National Institutes of Health reapproved the WiCell Research Institute’s H9 (WA09) human embryonic stem (ES) cell line, the most used and cited in scientific research, for ongoing use in federally funded research.
UW Transportation Services continues its series of open forums in May to gather feedback about program changes now being evaluated. The first session, held at the Memorial Union on April 20, was well received by attendees and was beneficial for Transportation Services. “We were thrilled with the questions and comments we received,” says marketing specialist …
University Preschool children in hardhats will assist at the School of Human Ecology groundbreaking at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 30, at 1300 Linden Drive.
In their new book from the University of Chicago Press titled “Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-Wage Labor Market,” co-authors Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer present their analysis of the political and structural forces that shaped the lives of working-poor families by examining the experiences of 33 women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wis.
The UW-Madison Department of Communication Arts will come to the rescue of film buffs hungry for more following the recent Wisconsin Film Festival.
University of Wisconsin-Madison juniors Asad L. Asad and Nicholas Lillios have recently been awarded $30,000 each for graduate study. Asad was recently announced as one of only 20 undergraduates in the U.S. to be selected as a 2010 Beinecke Scholar, and Lillios was recently announced as one of only 60 to be selected as a 2010 Truman Scholar.
If you plan to attend the Mifflin Street Block Party on Saturday, May 1, the Offices of the Dean of Students (ODOS) offers the following tips: Be safe. Go out with other people that you know and trust. Have a buddy who will watch out for you. Check in with each other throughout the day. …
The following UW–Madison programming is scheduled for the Big Ten Network in the coming weeks.
Julie Tran, left, assistant director of Academic Support Services in the School of Business, leads a group of ten Milwaukee high school and prospective college students on a tour of the school and Grainger Hall on April 23, 2010. The visit was coordinated by the Center for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a Milwaukee nonprofit organization, in partnership …
A plan to develop advanced materials for wound care and surgical applications presented by Ankit Agarwal, a Kauffman Entrepreneurial Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering, and Umang Nagpal, a PhD Chemical Engineering, took the top prize at the 2010 G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition. Agarwal and Nagpal developed a business plan for taking UW technology for making ultra-thin …
The Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently welcomed its 2010 initiates in a ceremony held at the Wisconsin Historical Society, followed by a reception and banquet. Chancellor Biddy Martin congratulated the 173 new inductees from the university amid the parents, family and friends of selected students. “I’m …
Media representatives who are planning to cover the Sunday, May 16, Overture Center appearance of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at the grand opening celebration of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds will be required to obtain university-issued credentials. Media space will be limited.
New nonprofit journalism centers must protect the integrity of their journalism, no matter how dependent they may be on a limited circle of funders.
The Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $1 million endowment from Sherry Mayrent and Carol Master, via the Corners Fund for Traditional Cultures, a Donor advised fund of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, to establish the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture.