UW–Madison went live with Oracle’s v9 Campus Solutions software on Aug. 11. It marked the successful culmination of almost a year’s worth of collaborative development and testing between student service departments and the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) technical support.
Nathan Seppa, Science News biomedical writer, will be the biomedical and public health writer in residence on campus from Monday–Friday, Sept. 8–12, will give a public talk, “Evolutionary Medicine: What Happens When We Are Hard-Wired for the Stone Age but Live in the Modern World,” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11, at Memorial Union (check Today in the Union for room).
Thirty years after visiting Yellowstone National Park for the first time, Monica Turner has established herself as a leader in the field of ecology and made Yellowstone one of the most well-studied ecological landscapes in the country.
The upcoming general election will undoubtedly generate a flurry of political activity on the campus, particularly as the Nov. 4 vote gets closer
A cooperative textbook project between the Office of the Registrar and the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) was launched on Aug. 18.
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Charter Communications, Inc. and the Big Ten Network have reached an agreement-in-principle on terms of a multi-year distribution agreement in which Charter will carry the Big Ten Network and related programming throughout the Big Ten territory, including its systems in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Northern Illinois.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus community is mourning the deaths of three of its students in a Midvale Boulevard car accident early today (Aug. 27).
Geology and geophysics professor Jean Bahr has been elected vice president of the Geological Society of America for a one-year term from July 2008-June 2009. Elliot Friedman, Institute on Aging, has been invited to present at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Institute of Medicine. Jason Jonely is assistant director for International Student Services. K. …
Incoming Chancellor Biddy Martin will address the University of Wisconsin-Madison community for the first time at the Chancellor’s Convocation for New Students.
Pamela Herd of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has won a $30,000 Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Award to Strengthen Social Security for Vulnerable Groups.
The majority of University of Wisconsin-Madison students who will be living in university residence halls this fall – approximately 6,900 of them – began moving in on Aug. 24, and many of them are scheduled to move in Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 27 and 28.
House fellow Jerrod Walker photographs Lisa Bacon (left) and Colleen Larsen, also house fellows, as nearly 175 residential life student staff within University Housing gather for a celebratory dinner at the recently renovated Rheta’s food service in Chadbourne Residential College on Aug. 22. The event was the culmination of two weeks of intensive residential …
It’s not just Olympic athletes who travel the world. The internationalization of sports has led to opportunities for many athletes – professionals and amateurs alike – to cross national, cultural and linguistic borders to play and compete.
Taking care of your personal safety isn’t something to just to think about at nighttime or after class, but to make a part of your life, all of the time.
Under a cloud of mosquitoes on a muggy June morning, Susan Paskewitz sits down in the grass, rolls up her pant leg and extends her calf as bait.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked seventh among public institutions in the 2009 edition of America’s Best Colleges, produced by U.S. News and World Report.
From logging to water skiing, rivers have always played a role in the Wisconsin’s story. Now a new book by a University of Wisconsin-Madison staff member brings the state’s rivers together in sharp detail.
The WiCell Research Institute, a private, not-for-profit supporting organization to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is launching its own stem cell bank to distribute cell lines beyond the 21 lines eligible for federal funding and distribution through the National Stem Cell Bank (NSCB).