Dinners On Wisconsin! (DOW!) provides UW?Madison undergraduates a chance to learn more about their career field of interest by inviting them into the homes of UW graduates to discuss and explore their particular career choice over dinner.
Thinking ahead generally does not top America’s to-do lists. But professor Brian Ohm’s area is land use and community development, and he is on a mission to help improve planning practice in Wisconsin and beyond.
As the emerging field of nanotechnology enters the public consciousness, mass media play an important role in shaping public attitudes about the new science. But newspapers, the Internet and television do so in significantly different ways, says Dietram Scheufele, a professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
An online, interactive Web site that helps decipher the Lakeshore Nature Preserve has won an award that puts the University of Wisconsin-Madison student-driven project at the forefront of map design in the United States.
Michael Eric Dyson, author of “Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster,” will keynote the second annual “Creating Institutional Change” (CIC) conference March 23-25, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Members of the UW-Madison campus community are invited to a forum designed to provide updates and information on the status of domestic-partner health insurance benefits.
The first-ever student-organized Women’s Leadership Conference, titled “Modern Women’s Bootcamp: From Backpack to Briefcase,” will take place from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 16, in Grainger Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The MIT Club of Wisconsin, a state association for alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is recognizing a University of Wisconsin-Madison influenza researcher and a bioscience spinoff company on Friday at its annual Technology Achievement Awards banquet.
The director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has announced her resignation, effective June 30.
A collaborative research project between the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) and the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has advanced the quest for efficient conversion of plant biomass to fuels and chemicals.
Six midcareer University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty have been recognized for their research accomplishments through conferral of Kellett Mid-Career Awards.
Five of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s emerging faculty stars have been named as recipients of the 2007 Romnes Awards.
This February 22 letter, written by UW Law School Dean Kenneth Davis to the law school community, addresses the controversial classroom comments of law Professor Leonard Kaplan and resulting anger that occurred.
A March 5 letter from UW-Madison Law School Professor Leonard Kaplan to Law School Dean Kenneth Davis provided further context and clarification of Kapan’s controversial comments about Hmong Americans in his Feb. 15 law course.
The public is invited to a program on March 28, 2007 at 7:15 p.m. to celebrate the designation of the UW-Madison’s 109-year-old dairy barn as a National Historic Landmark.
Olympic athlete and University of Wisconsin-Madison track star Suzy Favor Hamilton will be the featured speaker at the “Perspectives for Success Breakfast Series” on Wednesday, March 14 at the Memorial Union.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has named a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor to lead its Office of Fusion Energy Science, located within the DOE Office of Science.
Like most people, mechanical engineering professor Jay Martin never really understood the challenges of living with a severe physical disability until his teenaged son, Liam, was paralyzed in a diving accident.
Atmospheric scientists have uncovered fresh evidence to support the hotly debated theory that global warming has contributed to the emergence of stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.
On March 7, “Start Talking Before They Start Drinking,” a town hall meeting on middle school drinking, will examine Madison’s youngest drinkers and what we all can do about this problem. The meeting, hosted by Tom Farley of the Chris Farley Foundation, will examine what we know about early drinking in Dane County, the medical consequences of early alcohol use, and how the entire community can reduce middle school alcohol use.