A few years ago, UW–Madison grants and contracts specialist Aaron Crandall was sitting in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre during a screening at the Wisconsin Film Festival when he and the other volunteers realized it’d been awhile since they’d heard from the projectionist.
This column features the We Conserve program and its work on campus.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has selected “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot as the book for the second year of Go Big Read, the university’s common reading program.
Reports on the third-year evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program will be released in Madison on Wednesday, April 7.
Daniel Lecoanet, who will graduate with comprehensive honors from University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring with a double major in math and physics, has won a five-year, no-strings-attached fellowship to pursue graduate studies.
Chancellor Biddy Martin and kinesiology professor Li Li Ji participate in a game of two-on-two while touring the grounds of Wei Yu High School in Shanghai, China. Chancellor Martin returned last night, April 4, from a trip to China designed to raise the university’s visibility in the world’s most populous nation and promote international research …
All degree students currently enrolled at UW-Madison can now enroll for summer credit classes. Students enroll via the Web through My UW Madison. You can search for available classes using the “Class Search” function in the Student Center module.
Ice cream and butter maker Tim Haas fills containers with In the Dark, an ice cream specialty flavor being produced during a 150-gallon run at the Babcock Diary Plant March 17, 2010. The specialty ice cream, created for the second year in honor of the upcoming Wisconsin Film Festival, April 14-18, 2010, features chocolate malt …
A controlled burn at the UW-Madison Arboretum began late this morning, Thursday, April 1, and will last several hours. East Curtis Prairie is being burned in accordance with rotating fire plans designed to mimic natural fires that maintained the health of native prairie plant communities before settlers arrived in Wisconsin centuries ago. The fire will …
If there is any way to take in the full depth and breadth of the science being practiced and developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the eighth annual Science Expeditions celebration is the way to do it.
In a convergence of film, music and powerhouse performance arts, this year’s fourth annual Line Breaks festival will offer the opportunity to view the film “Passing Strange” on Monday, April 12, then hear the inside story on the creative process behind the Broadway production in a special cast and creator panel on Tuesday, April 20.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison community is invited to a spring pow-wow on Saturday, April 10.
For the second year running, the University of Wisconsin-Madison rode to the top of both divisions of the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge held at Michigan Technological University.
Senior forward Blake Geoffrion is one of three Hobey Hat Trick finalists for the 2010 Hobey Baker Memorial Award, the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation announced today.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Enrollment Management has announced campus visits for four finalists for the position of director of admissions and recruitment.
A controlled burn of the Biocore Prairie just west of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on planned for today, Wednesday, March 31, at 1 p.m. if conditions are suitable.
On March 23, five University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members and one former student were recognized by the American Chemical Society at its annual meeting in San Francisco.
Internet-based science news draws a more demographically diverse, learned and focused audience than print or television news, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison communication researchers.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor has received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design low-power computing systems that, if implemented on a broad scale, could have significant environmental and economic benefits.