Three finalists aiming to become the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s next dean of students will visit campus during the next month to meet and interview with students, administrators, faculty and staff.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have shown that silicon — the stuff of computer chips, glass and pottery — may have extraordinary therapeutic value for treating human disease.
Staying one step ahead of an aggressive, wood-boring beetle that is threatening ash trees in several states is the aim of a plan that will gradually remove many ash trees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Student Academic Affairs units in the College of Letters and Science have new office locations. To check out the new and existing office spaces, students, faculty and staff are invited to attend an SAA Open House from 1-3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 26.
The UW System Board of Regents is hosting an educational forum on Monday, Jan. 29, on a proposed move to a comprehensive freshman admissions policy.
If you are a student parent enrolled at the UW-Madison, you may qualify for financial assistance for child care fees through the Child Care Tuition Assistance Program (CCTAP). The program, which is intended to help eligible low-income students to obtain quality child care, is funded through student segregated fees recommended by the Student Services Finance Committee and approved by the chancellor and the UW System Board of Regents.
The United States remains the preferred country for foreign investors’ real estate dollars, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison survey of global real estate investors released today.
New research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has revealed an unexpected role for a toxin-binding protein in regulating the carrier of so-called “bad cholesterol.”
Nine projects funded by the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment will extend the university’s impact throughout the state.
Josie Cizak, a graduate student in the Five-Year Professional Program in Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, has been awarded a postgraduate technical assistant internship at the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Findorff Mortenson, a joint venture of J.H. Findorff & Son of Madison and M.A. Mortenson of Minneapolis, will build the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Morgridge Institute for Research on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, officials announced today (Jan. 23).
The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is leading efforts to bring a new federal bioenergy research and development center to Wisconsin, the college’s dean told a group of bioscience industry leaders today.
The team of Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston, in association with Milwaukee-based Continuum Architects + Planners, has been chosen by the state of Wisconsin to design the expansion to the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The new exhibition “Disposable Dresses: Throw-Away Design from the 1960s” opens on Wednesday, Jan. 24, in the Gallery of Design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Conventional wisdom about the pitfalls of reaction shots during presidential debates was turned on its head in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute announces two interdisciplinary artist residencies for this spring.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and its School of Human Ecology announced today (Jan. 18) that Elliot and Frances Lehman have provided a $1 million lead gift for a teaching and research preschool laboratory, a key component of a new addition to the school’s historic building.
Several outbreaks of norovirus infection have been documented in Dane County recently. Norovirus (formerly Norwalk-like virus) infection is common in the winter and is sometimes mistakenly called “stomach flu,” says Craig Roberts, epidemiologist for University Health Services (UHS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Several years ago, the university implemented a standard five-year review procedure for deans. The purpose is to assess their academic and administrative leadership and their performance in such areas as external relations and resource management.