COMMUNITY Diversity forum planners focus on Plan 2008 The first Diversity Plan 2008 Campus Forum will be held Tuesday, April 10, from 8:15 a.m.-4:15 p.m. in the Pyle Center. Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the event, which will focus on the university’s response to Plan 2008, the UW System’s initiative to increase …
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, but this fact hides a potentially more serious problem, says Pamela Oliver, professor of sociology.
Find the Institute for Enzyme Research, just past Navy ROTC on old University Avenue, then go down to the basement and listen for the classical music billowing out of Room 170, and you’ll find a man who is quietly waging war against the incessant American tendency to tear down the old and beautiful and throw up — the term is used advisedly — the new and ugly.
Raleigh, we hardly knew ye Rusted, mangled, seemingly abandoned bicycles, one even stripped of most parts, remain locked to a bike rack in front of Engineering Hall. Transportation Services and University Housing remove an average of 150 unclaimed bikes from campus annually after hopeful signs of ownership diminish. Following the end of each semester, bikes …
Because of the large numbers of visitors and school buses expected for the state high school forensic competition, Observatory Drive traffic will be limited to one way westbound from Park Street to Charter Street between mid-afternoon and 10 p.m. Friday, April 6, and from 8 a.m. -3 p.m. on Saturday, April 7.
Scientists say they’ve seen some success with a new approach to treating the more than 170,000 cancer patients in the U.S. whose cancer spreads from another part of their body to their brain each year.
Former Chancellor David Ward says he is eager to join the national policy debate as president of the American Council on Education, the nation’s principal higher education association.
Most observers foresee growing on- and off-campus use of electronic delivery of degree programs. Yet the idea of learning long-distance has been a staple of UW-Madison’s educational repertoire for close to a century.
Technical applications and innovations that advance distance learning frequently come from grassroots undergraduate initiatives … often with help from undergraduates themselves.
Former presidential candidate and consumer activist Ralph Nader and political activist Afeni Shakur will speak in mid-April at the university.
Katharine Lyall, president of the University of Wisconsin System, issued the following statement concerning the appointment of former Chancellor David Ward as president of the American Council on Education.
Four faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Hilldale Awards for major achievements in teaching, research and service.
Alfred Defago, Switzerland’s ambassador to the United States will be a visiting professor at the International Institute for the 2001-02 academic year.
A new integrated imaging laboratory will give scientists unparalleled views of brain function, helping bring highly informative color and shape to once-ethereal concepts about the nature of emotions, learning and mental disorders.
Sociologist Allan Johnson will lead an afternoon forum and evening dialogue on gender and race Wednesday, April 4.
Bo Ryan, head coach at UW-Milwaukee the past two seasons, has been named head coach of the Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
One of the keenest political observers in the country will present the free public Ralph O. Nafziger Lecture Tuesday, April 3.
China’s entry into the World Trade Organization will be the topic of an afternoon conference Friday, March 30.
A gift of $2 million from the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation will support the continued growth of the Waisman Center’s renowned programs in education, research and intervention for children with disabilities.
A study by researchers at the UW Medical School and the University of California-Irvine in the March 22 issue of Nature pinpoints what one particular gene does to shape the dorsal area of developing embryos.