This semester marks the beginning of an ambitious experiment in residence hall life, the Chadbourne Residential College. The idea upon which it is built: that living is learning, and the residence hall can be a form of classroom.
More than 300 UW-Madison students, faculty, staff and administrators have volunteered their services during a ‘Day of Caring’ Sept. 13.
Lueck and his team of eight student-loan advisors work with former students and graduates who have trouble paying back the student loans they took out from UW-Madison.
The seeds of a tiny, rapidly growing mustard plant, born in space aboard the troubled space station Mir, have sprouted in space, completing a critical first step toward the goal of raising multiple generations of plants in space.
Real personal income growth in Wisconsin in the 1990s surpassed the rate of growth in the nation by 24 percent, according to a study by Jon Udell, the Irwin Maier Professor of Business at the UW-Madison School of Business.
The need to “go beyond violence” has become an international rallying cry … but how exactly might we do that? Seven UW-Madison faculty members will consider the problem from a variety of scholarly perspectives as part of the Madison Urban Ministry’s 1997-98 lecture series, “Beyond Violence: A Shared Dialogue on Judgment, Guilt and Forgiveness.” Harold …
A team of scientists headed by Frederick Blattner of the E. coli Genome Project in the Laboratory of Genetics at UW-Madison has determined the complete genome sequence of the E. coli bacterium, it was reported in the Sept. 5 issue of the journal Science.
More than 170 booklets, broadsheets, pamphlets and other materials bearing the prints of Epinal of the French printer Pellerin will make their American debut Sept. 6-Nov. 30 at the Elvehjem Museum of Art.
Jere and Anne Fluno, Lake Forest, Ill., have made a gift of $3 million to help the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business build an executive education center in downtown Madison.
One of the biggest and brightest freshman classes ever begins its college education today.
A vision of the UW-Madison engineering campus — as portrayed through the medium of Lego building blocks — will go on display in the Gallery of Design Sept. 3.
UW-Madison’s men’s sports information director is charged with helping the polite but quiet Ron Dayne sift through the bevy of media queries that go hand-in-hand with the star running back’s run for the Heisman Trophy.
Michael Ferris, professor of computer sciences and industrial engineering, has received an international award for co-authoring a versatile software program used in everything from traffic-flow analysis to robotics control.
Richard Davidson, the Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, this summer received the highest honor given annually by the American Psychological Society, the William James Fellow Award.
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Faculty disciplinary decisions are being communicated more fully to the public and the UW-Madison community to help educate people about the process, a university official says.
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Faculty and academic staff would receive pay raises of 4 percent and 4.5 percent during the next two years, and classified staff would receive raises of 3 percent and 3.5 percent, under proposed state pay plans.
The Graduate School and the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center are taking steps to clarify and confirm the center’s animal assignment process.
“On August 11, 1997, I stopped any further assignments of UW monkeys from the Henry Vilas Zoo colony to invasive research projects. Today, I am taking two additional steps to clarify and confirm that existing policies and procedures at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Center support the important research efforts of the Center. I will meet …