Researchers at UW-Madison report in the current issue of the Journal of Nutrition that small concentrations of two compounds from plants we eat suppress the growth of three kinds of human cancer cells in the laboratory.
Buried deep in new registrar Monty Nielsen’s vita is a curious reference to baseball. What does being a registrar have to do with baseball? Everything, if you’re Nielsen.
The second summer of Park Street reconstruction between Regent Street and University Avenue resumes today (April 5).
Former Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur will speak about sexual assault and her recovery from incest Tuesday, April 6, on campus.
University researchers have helped achieve a startling effect by using models to teach mathematics and science to elementary school students: Fifth graders are performing at 12th grade levels.
Sean Curran, a renowned dancer/choreographer currently based in New York, will be artist-in-residence at the UW-Madison Dance Program Monday, April 5 through Sunday, April 25.
A mock court exercise developed by a UW Law School professor will introduce Wisconsin deaf students to the world of law, and the very real possibility of becoming a lawyer.
An annual Easter Sunday Breakfast once again will be served at the Memorial Union Lakefront Cafe.
Local and national experts plan to gather April 7-9 at UW-Madison for a national conference that will examine the public service mission of land grant institutions.
A new generation of bassists will spend this Friday and Saturday, April 2 and 3, working with the internationally acclaimed bassist Richard Davis, a UW-Madison music professor.
The university is stepping up recruitment of students of color in the state’s largest city – with assistance from their school district and potential future employers.
The University of Wisconsin System wants state university employees to arm themselves with the facts about potential millenium bug problems during today’s “Y2K Awareness Day.”
They look more like stray computer parts than precision medical tools, but Amit Lal’s research creations could give surgeons an incomparable new edge in medicine.
William G. Bowen, co-author of the new book “The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions,” will speak at UW Wednesday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m.
The first large-scale national study to examine the effects of race-sensitive admissions suggests that the policies have advanced educational goals and helped more African Americans join the middle-income ranks.
International alumni of UW-Madison representing virtually all of the university’s schools and colleges will return to Madison May 3-7 for a public convocation.
The fifth annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, an international forum on the latest basic and clinical research dealing with emotion, will be held April 23-24 at Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison.
About 100 prominent Central and East European scholars and writers plan to gather for a groundbreaking workshop examining the disintegration of multi-ethnic federations associated with the break-up of the former communist states.
For the next couple of months, motorists will not be able to reach the west side of the campus by turning off University Avenue onto Babcock Drive.
Famed historian George Mosse, who died Jan. 22, has named the College of Letters and Science as the major beneficiary of his estate.