The first publication of the newly created Parallel Press, an imprint of the UW-Madison General Library System, is a collection of poems by award-winning local poet Andrea Potos titled “The Perfect Day.”
The Class of 1973 Gallery on the newly remodeled Red Gym’s second floor will show the work of primarily undergraduates. Opened in November, the new space is a welcome addition to campus exhibition space available to students.
With 110 faculty affiliates across more than 40 departments, UW-Madison’s Institute on Aging is developing a composite picture of aging in America. A searchable Internet digest of the institute’s research can be found at the institute’s web site. Here’s a sampling of some ongoing projects: The best exercise for older age For older people looking …
The next UW-Madison sesquicentennial breakfast features Paul Soglin, former mayor of Madison and UW alum, who will discuss town-gown relations.
Students in UW-Madison’s Interarts and Technology (IATECH) program will take over Lathrop Hall Monday, Dec. 7 for a festival of their original works.
The UW Medical School is launching two large new studies aimed particularly at those cigaratte smokers who have tried — and perhaps tried again — to quit.
Two members of the UW-Madison faculty, Thomas Romberg in curriculum and instruction and Robert Hauser in sociology, have been elected to the National Academy of Education.
Interested citizens and members of the UW-Madison campus community are invited to comment on the university’s reaccreditation process during a public forum Tuesday (Dec. 8).
The Badger volleyball team will play host to first and second-round matches of the NCAA tournament on Friday and Saturday in the UW Field House.
As a new curriculum in the School of Education’s secondary teacher education nears its two-year anniversary, payoffs are proceeding from a decision made long ago by UW-Madison planners: To transform, instead of tinker.
Kidney transplants between siblings with slightly different tissue types are as much as 28 percent more likely to survive long-term when maternal tissue types are used to determine the donor, a new study from the UW Medical School suggests.
Thanks to a generous gift, a beautiful stone council ring will offer a restful place for reflection and a centralized site for groups to gather at the edge of the Arboretum’s Curtis Prairie.
The contributions of two centuries of African-American inventors, whose ideas range from labor-saving to life-saving innovations, are on display today and Friday, Dec. 4 at the College of Engineering.
A unique student-staffed fusion project in UW-Madison’s College of Engineering is generating excitement in the physics community.
Developmental biologist James A. Thomson, whose successful isolation and culturing of human embryonic stem cells made headlines around the world last month, testified today (Dec. 2) before the Senate appropriations committee in Washington.
New dances created by faculty and a visiting artist at UW-Madison will debut in “Steps and Landings,” a choreographers’ showcase Dec. 3-5.
A new certificate for undergraduate students interested in the Religious Studies Program at the UW-Madison caps a complete renovation of the program started three years ago.
Thanks in no small measure to Norman Fost’s continuing leadership, medical ethics is widely appreciated as a highly relevant field with the potential to profoundly affect individual lives as well as national policy.
The next president of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) will be Phillip R. Certain, dean of the College of Letters and Science at UW-Madison.
Before starting the quest for the ‘perfect’ Christmas tree, UW-Madison forestry professor Raymond Guries suggests a little homework on choosing and caring for this holiday centerpiece.