“Science Circa 1859: On the Eve of Darwin’s Origin of Species,” opening Monday, Nov. 23, in the Department of Special Collections at Memorial Library, explores the state of science before Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking book arrived on the scene 150 years ago.
In the weeks before Thanksgiving, most college students anxiously count down the days and midterms standing between them and a big meal at home with family and friends.
More than 30 local skiers and snowboarders competed for fun and prizes on 20 tons of man-made snow during the Hoofer Ski and Snow Board Club’s first Hoofer Rail Jam at the Memorial Union Terrace on Nov. 19, 2009.
Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.
This week, scientists are revealing the genetic instructions inside corn, one of the big three cereal crops. Corn, or maize, has one of the most complex sequences of DNA ever analyzed, says University of Wisconsin-Madison genomicist David Schwartz, who was one of more than 100 authors in the article in the journal Science.
Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America’s vast assemblage of large animals – including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers – began their precipitous slide to extinction.
A few days before the 150th anniversary of the “Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin’s epochal book on evolution, plans for a new evolution institute moved closer to final approval at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a five-year, $9.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to identify virus mutations that would serve as early warnings of potential pandemic influenza viruses.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill is a new education benefit that will provide tuition and financial support to veterans attending institutions of higher education. Due to the high volume of applications, the Veteran’s Administration (VA) has received, processing time has increased. However, eligible veterans can now receive up to a $3,000 advance, which will be recouped …
Work on a project to provide a Haitian community with hydroelectric power has won the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders a prestigious United Nations engineering award.
During the School of Human Ecology’s extensive renovation process, scheduled to begin in January, the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection will move to an off-campus storage facility. How the pieces get there, and what happens next, may be as interesting as the textiles themselves.
The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, Initiative for Studies In Transformational Entrepreneurship (INSITE) and the Wisconsin School of Business are preparing a proposal for a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation.
The Wisconsin Union is again offering its Thanksgiving-To-Go dinners. Pre-cooked turkey, ham and vegetarian dinners with all the trimmings are available to order until Friday, Nov. 20.
The University Police Department will hold its fourth annual Badger Watch Safety Conference from 7:45–3:45 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, at the Memorial Union.
University police are asking employees, students and campus visitors to heed the messages on construction signs and fences and resist that temptation to take shortcuts through those areas.
Following is a look at the UW–Madison-related programming scheduled for the next three weeks on the Big Ten Network.
Cases of H1N1 influenza have been trending upward among students in recent weeks, according to University Health Services (UHS).
As a young microbiology graduate student, Kevin Eliceiri met a professor just recruited to UW–Madison, a highly regarded geneticist and imaging expert named John White, now professor emeritus of anatomy and molecular biology.