In a move to unify campuswide leadership of graduate education, University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader named Judith Kornblatt senior associate dean for graduate education.
Although its use is permitted, the campus has identified numerous critical issues regarding Vista, including software compatibility with campus systems, hardware requirements and installation challenges.
The Wisconsin Idea: Setting the Agenda, UW-Madison’s annual report for fiscal year 2005-06, is now available online.
Since 2001, Meg Gaines and the center Center for Patient Partnerships have given more than 900 patients from all across the state hope through what the center calls “patient advocacy,” or the support of patients in their medical, financial and emotional journey through disease.
In an advance that could lead to composite materials with virtually limitless performance capabilities, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist has dispelled a 50-year-old theoretical notion that composite materials must be made only of “stable” individual materials to be stable overall.
The University Roundtable, a traditional semester lecture series at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will kick off on February 14 with a lecture by Alan Fish, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning and Management, about the future of the University Master Plan.
Thomas McKenna, an animal disease expert with 12 years experience dealing with the implications of livestock diseases at the national and international level, has been chosen to head the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
In a time of constant reminders of the need to learn about developing countries and cooperate globally, members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of AIESEC — the largest student-based organization on the planet — have become ambassadors to the world.
Florence Chenoweth, United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO) representative to the UN and executive director of the FAO Liaison Office in New York, will be a University of Wisconsin-Madison Distinguished International Visitor this semester.
If you could paint a gallon of paint one nanometer thick, how much area could you cover? The surprising answer-about 930 acres, or slightly larger than New York’s Central Park-certainly makes fun trivia fodder. More importantly, however, it points nanotechnology researchers to strategies that help them more effectively communicate the scale, scope and “wow” of their work to non-technical audiences.
The UW System Board of Regents is considering an updated freshman admissions policy that would ensure a comprehensive review of each applicant — a policy that is consistent with longstanding practices at UW–Madison.
In a move to unify campuswide leadership of graduate education, Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader named Judith Kornblatt senior associate dean for graduate education on Jan. 12. In the newly created position, Kornblatt is responsible for identifying and addressing issues that affect graduate education across disciplines.
More than 9,600 employees collectively pushed the annual Partners in Giving charitable campaign well past the $2.82 million goal this month.
This past holiday season, University of Wisconsin-Madison nutritionist Sherry Tanumihardjo made brownies with butter, not margarine. Like a lot of us, she wanted to avoid artificial trans fats.
Computer hackers prey on weak or easy passwords. Once they acquire your password, they can masquerade as you, getting access to files, e-mail, research, finances, personal information and more.
A few years into her nursing career, Susan Zahner realized that her professional future lay in “working upstream from where people generally see nurses,” she says. “I wanted my career to be about prevention and about helping people where they live, in their communities and homes.”
Meredith Torr
Before cancer cells can migrate, or metastasize, to other parts of the body, they first have to disconnect from their neighbors in the tumor. A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Canadian scientists has made a surprising discovery: The same enzyme that controls the ability of cancer cells to move also governs a process that binds them tightly in place.
Jacqueline A. DeWalt has been named director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) in the School of Education, where she has been assistant director since 2005.
The leader of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has become the first person from a university patent management office to serve on a committee that helps guide the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).