Milestones
Matt Boyle has joined the men’s rowing program as an assistant coach. Bebe Bryans, women’s rowing head coach, has named Erik Miller… Read More
Employee Matters
This column is prepared by staff of the Employee Compensation and Benefits Services office. E-mail the office at employee@bussvc.wisc.edu, or call 263-7556 or… Read More
Faculty, staff urged to talk to students about safety
UW–Madison is engaging in an effort to raise student awareness around safety issues in response to a series of a violent late-night attacks and robberies. Read More
WARF launches new programs for promising compounds
In conjunction with the Keck-UW Comprehensive Cancer Center Small Molecule Screening Facility (SMSF), the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is launching a new initiative for assay development and small-molecule screening. Read More
WAA seeks nominations for Distinguished Alumni Awards
The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) is calling for nominations for its top honors, the Distinguished Alumni Award and Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Since 1936, WAA has presented the awards to the most prestigious graduates of UW–Madison. Read More
Academy holds Middle East series
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters will hold the weekly lecture series “Understanding the Middle East”this fall, intended to shed light on the problems of the Middle East and examine possible solutions. Read More
Save the date for Plan 2008 forum
All faculty and staff are encouraged to “save the date” for UW–Madison’s seventh annual Diversity and Climate Campus Forum to be held on Thursday, Sept. 21, at Memorial Union. Read More
Achoo! Pollen counter measures what’s making you sneeze
At 8 a.m. four days a week, from March to November, Rose Vrtis hikes up four flights of stairs to the roof of the Clinical Science Center. Read More
Junior receives society’s inaugural scholarship
As the inaugural recipient of the Bascom Hill Society Scholarship, Sara Sadek knows she has a lot of high expectations awaiting her. But a look at her academic and personal achievements suggests she’ll exceed any benchmarks that are set. Read More
Spotlight: Wisconsin Welcome
Photos by Michael Forster Rothbart New faculty members, including (left to right) Lisa Alexander, Christina Ewig and… Read More
Music fest set to bring the world to the Union
The third annual World Music Festival will be held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Friday-Sunday, Sept. 21-23. Read More
Computing security grows on UW–Madison students
When it comes to safe computing practices, students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison need some improvement. Read More
Nighttime is the right time for Arts Night Out!
A string quartet will play with fire, ceramics will get smoking hot and dancers will burn up the floor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's "Arts Night Out!" on Saturday, Sept. 30. Read More
Wisconsin students have new way to learn to be leaders
Undergraduate business and engineering students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who aim to be leaders in their careers and communities now have a new way to reach that goal. Read More
Anticipation plays a powerful role in human memory
Psychologists have long known that memories of disturbing emotional events — such as an act of violence or the unexpected death of a loved one — are more vivid and deeply imprinted in the brain than mundane recollections of everyday matters. Probing deeper into how such memories form, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found that the mere anticipation of a fearful situation can fire up two memory-forming regions of the brain — even before the event has occurred. Read More
Multicultural Orientation Reception marks 25 years
One of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's longest-running and most successful student orientation programs is marking its 25th anniversary. Read More
Study shows heavy-smoking college students have more mental-health problems
A study just published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research revealed that students who were heavy smokers and were seeking treatment at a university counseling facility had substantially more mental health problems than those who were nonsmokers or light smokers. Read More
Recent Sightings
Eye on the weather Tim Olander, a research scientist with UW–Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, is portrayed with… Read More
Book Smart
Dick Ringler and “Beowulf” go back a long time — maybe not the entire 1,000-plus years of the epic poem’s existence, but a substantial… Read More