The Morgridge Center for Public Service celebrates 10 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this year. In the spirit of recognizing past service efforts at UW-Madison and in the Madison community, 10 notable contributions the Morgridge Center has helped achieve since its inception are highlighted.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers students a novel way to document their leadership experience on campus for future job and graduate school applications.
Ask any University of Wisconsin-Madison student whether they have a Facebook or MySpace account, and the answer will probably be “yes.” According to recent statistics, Facebook tallies 250 million hits every day and ranks ninth in overall traffic on the Internet.
This Thursday and Friday, March 1-2, scholars from a variety of fields will gather to discuss their collaborations at the second annual Wisconsin Conference on Interdisciplinary Cluster Hiring Case Study.
The entire Aldo Leopold Collection held by the University Archives of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be digitized in a partnership project with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. More than $100,000 has been awarded to the Foundation, in Baraboo, Wis., to support the project.
State budget season got under way this month as Gov. Jim Doyle rolled out a proposed 2007–09 state budget that recognizes the importance of higher education and provides domestic partnership benefits for all state employees.
Thinking ahead — planning — generally does not top America’s to-do lists. “As a society, we don’t often put a high enough priority on planning for future growth and change,” says Brian Ohm, professor of urban and regional planning.
Six mid-career UW–Madison faculty have been recognized for their research accomplishments through conferral of Kellett Mid-Career Awards.
Five of UW–Madison’s emerging faculty stars have been named as recipients of the 2007 Romnes Awards.
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As film festivals sprout up around the state, UW–Madison’s very own event returns for its ninth year, running Thursday–Sunday, April 12–15.
The Morgridge Center for Public Service celebrates 10 years at UW-Madison this year.
It was a record-breaking day for the second-ranked Wisconsin men’s track and field team. The Badgers won their seventh straight Big Ten Conference indoor championship with 120 points, tying a league record for consecutive indoor titles. Wisconsin tied a mark held by Michigan from 1934-40.
Influenza activity is currently considered to be “widespread” in Wisconsin, indicating we are reaching the peak of this year’s influenza season. Practitioners at University Health Services (UHS) are seeing many students with the flu. To minimize chances of getting the flu, students are encouraged to get a flu shot and to practice basic hygiene.
One of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s computer programming teams will travel to Tokyo for the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest in March.
Mathematicians have finally laid to rest the legendary mystery surrounding an elusive group of numerical expressions known as the “mock theta functions.”
Public policy issues related to human embryonic stem cell research will be the topic of a half-day symposium co-sponsored by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the WiCell Research Institute on Friday, March 2.
In recent years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine has noted fewer of its students enrolling in food animal courses. Looking ahead, that could cause problems for the state’s dairy industry as fewer veterinarians are available to meet their herds’ health needs.
The University of Wisconsin System is conducting a survey of undergraduates this month to better understand the impacts of alcohol and other drug use by UW students.
The research program of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gets underway today (Feb. 21), as officials announce the results of a campus-wide competition for the institutes’ Discovery Seed Grants.