Bascom Hill Loses Two of Its Elms
Two of Bascom Hill’s aged elm trees are being taken down this week, not because of the Dutch elm disease that has killed many of their kind, but because of safety concerns.
Two of Bascom Hill’s aged elm trees are being taken down this week, not because of the Dutch elm disease that has killed many of their kind, but because of safety concerns.
A critical step in communication between cells that promotes such things as bone formation, limb growth, and the development of other critical tissues, has been found by a team of researchers from UW-Madison.
UW-Madison’s Information Technology Committee and the Provost’s Office have approved guidelines for appropriate use of campus information technology resources.
Experts on the U.S. government, the global economy, American ethnicity, and technology and politics will be among the featured lecturers participating in a University Summer Forum titled ‘American Politics at the Millennium.’ The forum consists of eight lectures to be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, July 15 – August 7. All lectures are free …
A significant electric power interruption may occur this summer. Loss of power to the University facilities could be devastating unless we carefully manage our power usage.
With help from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, elementary, middle and high school science teachers from Wisconsin and beyond will have the opportunity to experience science first hand through the UW-Madison Arboretum and Geology Museum.
A new University Theatre production will take audiences back to a bygone era when the dining room table was the hub of family life. ‘The Dining Room’ by A.R. Gurney humorously chronicles in 18 sketches the changing social mores of the American family from the Depression to the 1980s. While the character’s times and situations …
By changing the composition of fish populations in a lake, scientists have found a switch by which the flow of carbon between lakes and the atmosphere can be turned on, off, or reversed.
Hjalmar D. (Ham) Bruhn, emeritus professor of agricultural engineering, died July 1, 1997 at his summer cottage on Black Oak Lake near Land O’Lakes, Wis. He was 89 years old.
The first phase of the renovation of the historic Red Gym is underway. The building, which went up in 1894, will reopen in 1998 as a student services center.
Lawrence A. Sromovsky, Space Science and Engineering Center planetary scientist, has been honored with the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for leading the team responsible for the Galileo Probe instrument, the Net Flux Radiometer.
UW-Madison’s Information Technology Committee and the Provost’s Office have approved guidelines for appropriate use of campus information technology resources.
The women’s volleyball team has a Web site where they are posting a daily digital diary and photo album of their 21-day training and cultural trip to Russia.
In his last University Theatre production, director John Staniunas guides the murder mystery musical ‘Something’s Afoot’ through a series of plot twists and elaborate stage tricks. The 1930s British spoof, which will be performed in a cabaret setting, opens Friday, June 27. ‘Something’s Afoot’ is the University Theatre‘s first production of the summer season. In …
The university is looking for 50 of current and former students to appear in its new national TV spot, ‘Anthem,’ to be aired this coming fall and winter during broadcasts of Badger sporting events.
Here’s some important information about parking, shuttle service, stadium rules and ticket sales for the U2 PopMart concert-goers who will take in the Wednesday evening, June 25, event at Camp Randall Stadium.
A new reception and orientation hall for the UW Arboretum will become a reality, thanks to a gift of property appraised at $600,000 from local resident George Icke.
Roger Wyse, dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1992, announced his resignation today, effective immediately.
Fourteen local 12- and 13-year-olds are getting the chance to experience first-hand what it is like to engineer a remote-controlled rover craft and guide it over a foreign terrain via computer-relayed commands.
Recognizing its unique and challenging design, the American Institute of Architects’ Wisconsin chapter has presented its highest award to the University of Wisconsin Law School for its recent addition and renovation.