The public is invited to attend a dialogue between His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Richard J. Davidson, director of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conversation, “Investigating Healthy Minds,” will take place at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, May 16, in the Overture Center’s Capitol Theater.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Throughout this month, the Dane County Community is coming together to learn about sexual violence while supporting and celebrating survivors.
By Ellen Page and Liz Beyler Each year, the Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards honors faculty for teaching excellence. They will receive their awards at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Pyle Center. This year’s award recipients are: Emily Auerbach, professor of liberal studies and the arts and English, Van …
Senior forward Blake Geoffrion was named the 2010 Hobey Baker Memorial Award recipient, the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation announced on Friday at the NCAA Frozen Four in Detroit and live on ESPNU. Geoffrion is Wisconsin’s first-ever Hobey Baker award winner.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will end its licensing agreement with Nike as a result of the company’s failure to adequately address the problems caused by the closing of two Honduran factories.
Students in Professor Laura Jull’s Horticulture 375 class watch a demonstration by certified arborist Sean Gere (center) during a tree-climbing lab conducted at the large Swamp White Oak tree outside the Microbial Sciences Building on April 8, 2010. The exercise is designed to show students how to use proper equipment to safely climb trees for …
The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation has announced a gift of $100,000 to expand the work of the UW Center for Nonprofits in the School of Human Ecology.
Students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program scored at similar levels as their peers not participating in the school choice program, according to a study released Wednesday.
The vivid colors and designs animals use to interact with their environments have awed and inspired since before people learned to draw on the cave wall.
Chancellor Biddy Martin recently returned from a 13-day trip to China and expressed optimism that the university’s presence and visibility in the world’s most populous nation is growing.
While the public relations business took a hit in the recent economic recession along with many other industries, the surge in social networking and new technology gives public relations professionals more opportunities than ever to make their messages resonate.
Gregor Reid, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Western Ontario, will discuss “Probiotics: What to Look for and What to Expect” in an April 14 lecture at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
For the second year, UW students get a free taste of the summer early.
Earlise Ward knows the unspoken but not-so-little secret of the mental health treatment world: African-Americans with mental illness are one of the country’s most underserved and undertreated groups.
Harold C. Bradley, one of the first three medical professors on campus, met and married Josephine Crane when she was merely a college junior.
The annual Varsity Band Concert returns to the Kohl Center Thursday–Saturday, April 15–17, with all its usual pyrotechnics, thunder and brass. This year’s performance brings much more, however.
With colony collapse disorder continuing to plague commercial beekeepers in many parts of the country, University of Wisconsin–Madison experts are studying whether native pollinators can supply the insect pollination needed to form many fruits.
More than 150 years after Charles Darwin pondered the evolution and origin of species, assistant professor of genetics Bret Payseur is investigating similar questions — but with decidedly more modern tools.
Each year, the Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards honors faculty for teaching excellence. They will receive their awards at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Pyle Center.