Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Roberta Gassman will receive the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social Work in a ceremony Monday, April 12 at the Waisman Center on the UW-Madison campus.
Suppose you could get immune cells to move just where you wanted them to in the body – to fight infection or kill a tumor? It may sound like science fiction or magic, but it’s not.
The U.S. Postal Service has given both of its awards for scholarship on the history of the American postal system to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Energy is building at the Large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, Switzerland, in more ways than one.
Philosopher, political activist, lecturer and author Noam Chomsky will receive the A.E. Havens Center’s Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship on Thursday, April 8.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will close on Friday, April 2 as a mandated furlough day for most of its employees.
Chancellor Biddy Martin and International Studies Dean Gilles Bousquet talk with Beijing middle school students on the grounds of Tsinghua University, one of China’s oldest and most prestigious institutes of higher education. The chancellor is leading a delegation of UW-Madison faculty and staff to China as part of her first trip to Asia as the …
Eleven accomplished Chinese student-athletes will spend six months living and studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of a groundbreaking partnership with Beijing University of Sport, the foremost sports, physical education and exercise science institution in China.
As well as achieving excellence in academics, the six winners of the 2009-10 University of Wisconsin-Madison Outstanding Women of Color awards have all stepped off the Madison campus and advocated for social justice in the greater community.
Whether they’re headed to their hometowns, to volunteer in someone else’s town, or for one last run down on the snow-covered slopes of the Rockies, UW-Madison students are spring break bound. To make sure your return to campus is as healthy and safe as your departure, University Health Services and the Offices of the Dean …
The end of spring break will mark the last chance people have to submit entries in the “On, Wisconsin!” YouTube competition, which offers grand prize of a trip to Las Vegas this fall.
“Reforming Health Care Ethically: Waste, Trade-offs and Rationing” will be held from 1 to 5:30pm April 8 at the Health Sciences Learning Center in lecture auditorium 1306. Seating is open and admission is free.
In an important and timely study of medical governance, professor David Weimer of the La Follette School of Public Affairs explores a regulatory approach that delegates decisions about the allocation of scarce medical resources to private nonprofit organizations.
The Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research is partnering in efforts to send Wisconsin dairy artisans around the world to help cheesemakers compete on the international market.
It Changes You. That’s the 12th Wisconsin Film Festival slogan, and though it’s too early to tell, it’s probably accurate.
Snirts (those disgusting piles of snow and dirt) have receded, birds are returning from the south, backyard grills are fired up and people are busting out of their four walls for a rejuvenating, smidgen of warmer weather. What better place to get re-acquainted with Mother Nature than at the Arboretum? There’s no excuse not to. …
There’s no denying that clothes say volumes about the person wearing them. This is true, too, on the stage.
The Division of International Studies has hired Maj Fischer to serve as the first managing director of the International Internship Program, a campuswide, centralized international internship office. Greg Jackson has been named nickel back and assistant linebackers coach. Assistant director of financial aid Terry Kell has received the Person of the Year Award from the …