Administrative Excellence campus forum set for June 20
Seven teams will be presenting their work at the Administrative Excellence campus forum on Wednesday, June 20 from 10 a.m. to noon at Varsity Hall in Union South.
Center for Integrative Design’s new name reflects broadened activities
The renamed Center for Integrative Design in the School of Human Ecology will support a focus on design as both a practice and a discipline.
HR Design teams submit revised recommendations
Four work teams from the campus’ Human Resources Design project have turned in revised recommendations that are responsive to feedback received during a lengthy engagement process.
Business school partnership advances real estate program
A new partnership agreement between the Wisconsin School of Business and the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) will bring some of the brightest students from Shanghai to Madison to study in the innovative Global Real Estate Master (GREM) program.
Nominations being accepted for WAA’s Forward under 40 Awards through July 8
The Wisconsin Alumni Association is accepting nomination for the Forward under 40 Awards.
Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp kicks off at UW–Madison
When it comes to business, every good idea needs a business plan, a market and some capital. This week, some of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s best minds are learning how to take new ideas to market and launch them into businesses at the Wisconsin School of Business’s Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.
Memorial Union construction set to begin
Memorial Union visitors will begin to see construction fences go up the week of June 18 in preparation for the first phase of the Memorial Union Reinvestment project.
New online catalog details UW–Madison Continuing Studies classes
Now you can easily search for noncredit Continuing Studies classes online.
Social class discrimination contributes to poorer health
Discrimination felt by teenagers based on their social class background can contribute to physiologic changes associated with poorer health, according to a new study led by a University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher.
National network innovation program builds on UW–Madison success
Suman Banerjee's work finds plenty of happy users every day, but it's not every day the University of Wisconsin–Madison computer sciences professor helps inspire a national program supporting technical innovation.
UW Hospital and Clinics traffic advisory from June 14-29
From June 14 to 29, concrete replacement construction is taking place on the drive approaching the main entrance of UW Hospital and Clinics.
Webinars focus on new online master of engineering in sustainable systems engineering
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will hold a series of informational webinars on the new online master of engineering in sustainable systems engineering (SSE).
Learn about science in Spanish at Explorando las Ciencias
Explorando las Ciencias, a popular Spanish-language science outreach event, will take place from 2 to 10 p.m. on Friday, June 22, at Warner Park in the Community Recreation Center and shelter at Warner Park, 1625 Northport Drive, and with the help of “Amigos en Azul,” a Madison police organization aimed at building partnerships in the city’s Hispanic community.
UW-Madison partnership creates educational game development tools
Studies highlight the benefits of playing educational video games, but a new partnership seeks to understand whether the act of designing video games boosts students’ computational thinking and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills.
Probe seeking life on Saturn’s moon earns student team a spot at international space conference
Somewhere beneath as much as 30 miles of ice on the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, extraterrestrial life could be waiting to be discovered under a subglacial ocean. And a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering mechanics and astronautics students want to be the people who find it. For their senior design course, Alex Gonring, Capri Pearson, Samantha Robinson, Jake Rohrig and Tyler Van Fossen designed a mission that would take a probe from Earth to deep below Enceladus’ icy surface, where an array of science instruments would look for carbon-based life.
Street repairs on eastbound Linden Drive to begin Wednesday
Starting Wednesday, June 20, Linden Drive between Charter Street and Babcock Drive will be closed to eastbound traffic for approximately three weeks for concrete street repairs.