Susanne Rust was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative journalism. While at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Rust and a colleague broke a story about the failure of the U.S. government to protect Americans from chemicals in plastics.
If you are an armchair traveler, or more of the accidental tourist type, campus activities this weekend will satisfy the wanderer in us all. And with spring break still weeks away, these events arrive in the nick of time.
The emotional conflict over whether to follow one’s heart or not is a struggle that has plagued all peoples during all eras. In 1888, playwright Henrik Ibsen explored the topic in his play “The Lady from the Sea.” Graduate directing student Jeremy Thomas Poulsen now tackles Ibsen’s play in University Theatre’s upcoming production, opening Friday, March 19, and playing through Saturday, April 10, in the Hemsley Theatre.
Just over two months since the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, the world’s attention has largely turned to other issues. The need for help, however, remains just as strong. Now, a group in Madison hopes to mobilize volunteers in support of those still suffering from the earthquake’s devastation.
Alumni Weekend will feature a full weekend of activities set for Thursday–Saturday, April 22–24.
Most people first think of the stars when thinking about outer space — but Snezana Stanimirovic is more interested in what’s between them.
When Timothy Kamp arrived at UW–Madison in 1996, stem cell research was the focus of a few biologists and blood researchers.
Two faculty members were among 118 young faculty who were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships.
Carson Gulley was born in Arkansas in 1897 to two former slaves. As a dormitory chef, Gulley cooked more than 16 million meals for hungry students in his 27 years on campus.
This column features the We Conserve program and its work on campus.
With motherhood on the horizon, Julie Stubbs wasn’t looking for a new day job. But just a few months after coming to Madison, she found herself in charge of two major projects: raising a baby and running an innovative new office on an unfamiliar campus.
The following UW–Madison programming is scheduled for the Big Ten Network in the coming weeks.
On March 20, 1945, the UW Foundation was established to raise funds for “a great post-war development program for the university.” An influx of students — mostly World War Ⅱ servicemen — lack of infrastructure investment during the war years and the nation’s need for educated workers required that something be done to supplement legislative allocations to the university.
A broad partnership of Madison-area education, health, government and nonprofit organizations, including UW–Madison, has been awarded $5.1 million in federal stimulus funding to expand access to computer networks for underserved communities and local agencies
Many people believe water will be to the current century what oil was to the last one: the defining natural resource.
UW–Madison has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
Utility construction will affect vehicle and pedestrian traffic along North Park Street between Johnson Street and Langdon Street for about four weeks this spring.
The Office of the Secretary of the Academic Staff is an unlikely place for an art gallery. But a recent remodeling of the office left a more open room, lots of sunlight and bare white walls that called out for some color.
Some 300 middle- and high-school band members from Mount Horeb, Wis., will come to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Wednesday, March 17, for a morning of musical instruction and collaboration in a musical March madness.
Kaitlin Koehler was destined to become a leader with the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD).