Submissions of original, full-length plays are being accepted for the Wisconsin Wrights New Play Project, a joint initiative of the University of Wisconsin Division of Continuing Studies, the University Theater and the Madison Repertory Theater created to foster the development of new works by Wisconsin playwrights.
Students and programs in the arts and humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will benefit from an initiative – the first phase of a long-term commitment – announced Thursday by campus officials.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has narrowed its search for a new dean of students to three finalists.
Working with a common form of brewer’s yeast, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have uncovered novel functions of a key protein that allow it to act as a master regulatory switch – a control that determines gene activity and that, when malfunctioning in humans, may contribute to serious neurological disorders.
Look at your window – not out it, but at it. Though the window glass looks clear, if you could peer inside the pane you would see a surprising molecular mess, with tiny particles jumbled together any which way. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new glass-making technique that eliminates some of that mess.
Bret Bielema, the sixth rookie head coach in NCAA history to guide his team to 11 victories, has been named the Dave McClain Big Ten Coach of the Year. Aparna Dharwadker won the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the best book on drama or theater, presented by New York University’s Department of English, for her …
In a particularly congenial intersection of town and gown, the 170-voice Choral Union will present two substantial works by Franz Joseph Haydn and Zoltan Koda’ly on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 9 and 10.
Students from the world-renowned Trinity Academy of Irish Dance will perform traditional Irish step dancing, replete with authentic costumes and music at the Waisman Center Children’s Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 10.
“Manifest” playwright Brian Silberman takes great issue with films such as “Schindler’s List,” “Amistad” and “Dances With Wolves.”
Examples of Bonnie Cashin’s and Dorothy Liebes’ work are on display at the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection in Room 378 of the School of Human Ecology until Friday, Jan. 12. For details, call 262-1162 or visit http://sohe.wisc.edu/depts/hlatc/location.html.
The All-University String Orchestras will perform music written or adapted for film and stage at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 9, in Mills Hall.
Ben Karlin, executive producer of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Showâ€, and a 1993 UW–Madison graduate, will speak at the commencement on Sunday, December 17.
Aside from their aesthetic beauty, color woodcuts made in America, Britain and Japan at the turn of the last century also illustrate the unmistakable influence each culture had on the others. An exhibition of color woodcuts from those three countries is set to open at the Chazen Museum of Art on Saturday, Dec. 9.
The Campus Women’s Center, Women in Business and the Marketing Society are bringing LUNAFEST, a national touring film showcase of short films by and about women, to Madison.
John Dreger is a senior instrumentation specialist at the Wisconsin Structural and Materials Testing Labs in the College of Engineering, where he’s worked for more than 41 years.
After working for SAFEwalk during his time as an undergraduate, Jacob Hahn returned to campus to serve as the coordinator of Safe Arrival For Everyone (SAFE) Nighttime Services.
Tandem Press, the fine-art printmaking studio affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s art department, will be among hundreds of galleries represented, as thousands of collectors and artists gather December 7-10 for fairs and events surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach, the leading international art event in the Americas.
The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women’s Lives, 1890-1940 (University of Tennessee Press, 2006) By Beverly Gordon, professor and chair, Department of Environment, Textiles and Design Much as we try to deny it, daily life often is, well, tedious — an endless round of laundry-doing, grocery shopping, bathroom- cleaning, picking up this, dropping off …
The Glass Lab will hold an open house on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 9 and 10, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. There will be glass blowing and neon demonstrations, and work will be available for sale.
A 15-year-old home-schooled boy … College students in Illinois … The nephew of Bangladesh’s president. The people on this list have a common trait: They are all Wisconsin Idea recipients, thanks to the Digital Collections Center (UWDCC).