Ping Chong, internationally renowned artist-in-residence at the university, plans to deconstruct cultural assumptions thourh “Undesirable Elements,” a performance piece to be presented at UW-Madison March 22-23.
John Searle, professor of philosophy at University of California-Berkeley, will speak about “The Future of Philosophy” Tuesday, March 20.
Because parking around the Kohl Center is limited, especially before 5 p.m. on weekdays, WIAA tournament fans are being encouraged to park at the Alliant Energy Center (formerly the Dane County Coliseum/Expo Center) and ride a Madison Metro shuttle bus to the arena. Cost to park: $4. Ride: $1 round-trip.
To address the growing demand for access to the state’s flagship university, UW-Madison is partnering with the UW Colleges to offer a dual admission program.
More than 15,000 books on almost any subject will be on sale in a fund-raiser for the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries March 21-24.
Inside every rubble-infested, garbage-strewn, rodent-molested urban backlot is an inviting city square waiting to break free. Perhaps it is waiting for Sarah Schultz, one of 20 students in Martin Bailkey’s landscape architecture classes. The courses require students to design ways to improve spaces in inner-city Milwaukee.
Nearly a dozen hands-on exhibits that are part of ‘Whys and Wows,’ the second annual partnership event between the Neville and UW-Madison. The 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. event is free and open to school groups, after-school organizations and the general public.
Chancellor John Wiley applauds Gov. Scott McCallum’s pledge of $27 million for the BioStar Initiative’s first major project, a Biotechnology Center addition.
UW Hospital and Clinics has been recognized by an independent national assessment organization for excellence in the provision of stroke care to patients and as a recipient of the 2000 100 Top Stroke Hospitals Award.
Similar to an insect’s antennae, filopodia are finger-like projections on the tips of developing nerve cells that extend out to detect environmental clues and help direct axons to their proper destinations. Until now, scientists didn’t know what kind of signals filopodia sent back to the cell tip, called a growth cone, or how they controlled movement.
The UW System Board of Regents adopted March 9 a resolution strongly supporting “the continuation of human embryonic stem cell research that is conducted according to the highest ethical standards.”
As part of her spring residency, composer Pauline Oliveros will present the Madison premiere of her new dance-opera, “Io and Her and the Trouble with Him” at 8 p.m. Friday, April 13, at the Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon St.
Poet Heather Dubrow explores difficult life experiences, including the loss of parents, divorce, medical crisis, accident, and injury in the 11th chapbook of the Parallel Press, “Border Crossings.”
The jolt of excitement from the January discovery of a new high-temperature superconducting metal, magnesium diboride, may get another voltage boost this week with evidence that the material can carry electrical currents at high density.
The leader of an effort to find children who vanished under Argentina’s military dictatorship will describe her experiences during a visit this month to the university.
Some of UW-Madison’s most creative explorations, from furniture as art to fuel-efficient trucks, will be on display Tuesday, March 7, during ‘UW Day,’ a showcase of how the UW System benefits students and the state.
The Center for the Humanities will hold its first annual “Languages of the Humanities: The Yvonne Ozzello Memorial Evening” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, in the Alumni Lounge of the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
Gunter Blobel, a UW alumnus and 1999 Nobel laureate in medicine, will visit the Madison campus March 28-30.
“Undesirable Elements,” a performance created and directed by award-winning artist-in-residence Ping Chong, will be presented March 22-23.
Tickets are still available for an apperance by former tobacco industry scientist Jeffrey Wigand at the Union Theater, Memorial Union, Wednesday, March 7 at 7:30 pm.