Candidates’ responses Jim Doyle Nelson Eisman Mark Green Wisconsin Week: The University of Wisconsin has been described as an economic engine for the state. What do you believe are the three greatest economic benefits it brings? Nelson Eisman: The UW system is not just an economic engine, it’s the economic engine that once made Wisconsin …
Candidates’ responses Jim Doyle Nelson Eisman Mark Green Wisconsin Week: The University of Wisconsin has been described as an economic engine for the state. What do you believe are the three greatest economic benefits it brings? Mark Green: As graduates of UW-Eau Claire and UW–Madison, so much of who my wife, Sue, and I are …
This week’s subject is Janet Hagen. Describe your job. How long have you worked at UW–Madison? I am a university services associate at the Student Loan Servicing Department in the Office of Student Financial Services. I have been working at UW–Madison for a little over 20 years. What made you want to work at UW–Madison? …
Students in a freshman English seminar had a rare opportunity last week when American Players Theatre actor David Daniel visited their class.
In the University Theatre production of “The Arabian Nights,”the tension between distrust and detente is as real as the evening news. The production opens on Thursday, Nov. 16
They had been taken in, many of them, manipulated by the government they had sworn to uphold. And the price the Japanese tokko-tai pilots paid for their fealty was very dear. Ohnuki-Tierney’s new book corrects this painful omission. It follows a line of inquiry that she began with the 2002 publication “Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and …
Wisconsin’s BadgerCare program is expanding health insurance coverage for families who have left welfare, says a just-published paper by scholars from the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Institute for Research on Poverty.
When Jenny Hansen’s friend told her the story of an unwanted sexual experience, she didn’t call it rape, saying, “I shouldn’t have drank so much.” Hansen repeatedly tried to explain to her friend that the incident wasn’t her fault. But no matter what Hansen said, her friend just kept blaming herself. At that moment, Hansen decided join the fight against sexual assault. She went through Promoting Awareness and Victim Empowerment (PAVE) training and became a PAVE facilitator.
As an historian, Susan Lee Johnson finds few subjects of American history more irresistible than the California Gold Rush, a movement that unfolded so fast and furiously that it must seem like watching history get shot from a cannon.
The Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will welcome more than 900 public policy experts to a national conference this week at the Monona Terrace Convention Center.
Cinefest, a four-day extravaganza of documentary and politically charged filmmaking, will be held Thursday–Sunday, Nov. 16–19, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
While millions of young people use the Internet to build expansive social networks, most political campaigns never manage to take the training wheels off the technology, using it mainly for tightly controlled, one-way communication. Communication professor Michael Xenos is studying the disconnect between new media and old politics.
Cynthia Enloe, one of America’s pre-eminent theorists of gender and the military, and Research Professor of Women’s Studies and International Development at Clark University, will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, Nov. 9.
English Professor Emily Auerbach will be honored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) with a Cabinet 99 Award at a symposium on Nov. 3. A WAA initiative, Cabinet 99 was formed to support leadership development, mentoring and advocacy policies, and programs affecting women at the university. Dale Bjorling, professor and chair of the Department of …
Wisconsin’s BadgerCare program is expanding health insurance coverage for families who have left welfare, says a just-published paper by scholars from the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Bogdanich, an investigative reporter and editor for The New York Times, will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison as this fall’s Public Affairs Writer in Residence.
A unique Web site that pools information from many databases will help public audiences and Wisconsin transportation officials gain a broader perspective on traffic safety issues and needs.
The importance of landmark federal patent legislation to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and to an effective national science policy is the topic of the 2006 Kastenmeier Lecture at the UW-Madison Law School on Friday, Nov. 3.
Michael Thornton, faculty director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Morgridge Center for Public Service and professor of Afro-American and Asian American Studies, received the individual Racial Justice Award from the Madison YWCA at its fifth annual Racial Justice Conference on Oct. 19.
As the celebration of Halloween on State Street unfolds this weekend, a corps of University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students will cover the event live under the guidance of professional reporters.