‘Intervision,’ a cross-cultural and multi-media dance concert featuring new and recent works by choreographer Jin-Wen Yu will be presented Thursday -Saturday, March 7-9, at 8 p.m. in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.
Technology and Arts is a program designed for students currently in 5th through 8th grades and is sponsored by the School of Education.
A variety of career fairs and other services are available now to graduating students.
UW-Madison is putting a new spin on service travel .
The university has taken another step in a continuing effort to ensure gender equity in salary among its faculty.
The Joe Goode Performance Group brings its contemporary dance theater to Wisconsin Union Theater Friday, March 1, 8 p.m.
The “Big Mouth” open mic event at Memorial Union showcases the talents of campus poets, essayists and storytellers.
Dominique Decherf, Consul General of France in Chicago, will visit campus and give a talk on “Clash of Civilizations: A French View,” Friday, Feb. 22 at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison.
Students used the university’s new educational visa to travel to Cuba with the intention of spending a week restoring a synagogue and cemetery in Camaguey, but learned and experienced much more.
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution Feb. 4 that sends another message to the UW System Board of Regents regarding the dismissal of John Marder from the UW-Superior faculty.
Jeff Rohrman, the top assistant soccer coach at nationally respected Maryland for the past seven years, has been named head men’s soccer coach at Wisconsin.
Engineering student Nate Altfeather won a first-place $10,000 prize this week in the annual Brainstorm: The Schoofs Prize for Creativity competition for students with a device called the Check-meter that measures negative acceleration, or ‘check,’ of a rowing shell. Fellow student Tom Johnson won a first-place $2,500 prize in this year’s Tong Prototype Competition for his pneumatically powered shingle stripper.
Wisconsin Week will publish answers to questions of campus interest posed by faculty and staff. We can’t promise to answer all questions submitted, but we’ll try to pick those most likely to be of interest to the largest number of readers. Please send your queries to wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Q. Which building holds the title for having …
Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Transplant drug advance could reduce complications University researchers have taken a big step forward toward freeing transplant patients from the powerful, and sometimes harmful, drugs they now take to keep their bodies from rejecting new …
Photo caption correction A photo on the back page of the Jan. 30 issue incorrectly identified the Wisconsin basketball player pictured. The caption should have identified No. 30 as senior guard Tamara Moore. Names are hot topic The Assembly Government Operations Committee plans to meet Wednesday, Feb. 20, on a measure (AB 480) that would …
Accountability: Looking good Despite operating in an increasingly challenging funding environment, the UW System continues to provide an outstanding learning environment for its students, a new report indicates. This year’s “Achieving Excellence” report highlights that the UW System met or exceeded 13 of 20 benchmarks in 2001. The results are mixed on four measures: graduation …
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Reflections on running A runner jogs along the Temin Lakeshore Path between frozen University Bay and a puddle, reflecting the duality of this winter season, acting as its usual frigid self one minute, then tempting us with a whiff of spring the next. (Photo: Jeff Miller) A dancer blurs past observers during the annual …
A team of researchers from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is building a picture of how the soybean aphid operates in Wisconsin.
Employee Compensation and Benefits Services provides a one-stop ‘2001 Tax Filing Information’ Web site for tax filing information.