The Fourth Annual Workplace Learning Conference, sponsored by the Center on Education and Work at UW-Madison, will draw more than 1,000 people from 42 states and six nations May 16-18 in Milwaukee.
Distinguished achievers with Wisconsin and global ties will be awarded honorary degrees during commencement ceremonies in May.
Two UW-Madison seniors have received the Herfurth-Kubly Award based on their academic achievements, degree of self-support, extracurricular activities, communication skills and contribution to the community.
Elizabeth Steinberg, assistant director of the University of Wisconsin Press, is one of two recipients of the 1999 Regents Administrative and Professional Academic Staff Excellence Award for Outstanding Service.
A weekend of beginnings commences Friday, May 14, for the approximately 4,000 university students eligible to graduate this spring.
In the midst of midterms, while most professors fed students exams, Jack Kloppenburg simply fed them.
Four UW-Madison faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society devoted to scholarly work that addresses social problems and needs.
Limnology professor Steve Carpenter recently received the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award for excellence in lake research from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
Polygon Engineering Council, the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering college council of student organizations, announced its annual teaching excellence award winner.
A grant from the University Book Store allows for 20 Academic Excellence Awards of $1,000 each to University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students who best demonstrated excellence by completing a project through independent study.
Four scientists with Wisconsin ties are part of a team who played a key role in the selection of the latest object to be observed by the Hubble Heritage Project – a public outreach program of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
A Madison teacher will be among those receiving alumni awards from the School of Education on Saturday, May 8.
Service “beyond the call of duty” to students has earned five UW-Madison staffers and a special team awards from the university’s Student Personnel Association.
Redirecting the UW Press will transform it into a stronger, more streamlined publisher of scholarly and popular books, officials hope.
If there’s a common wisdom to field biology, it is to expect the unexpected. And the last thing primatologist Nancy Ruggeri expected to encounter was the saola – a spindle-horned animal that is possibly the last of the world’s large mammals to be discovered.
Two UW-Madison School of Medicine professors have been chosen to receive $200,000 Shaw Scientist Awards by the Milwaukee Foundation.
As part of the sesquicentennial, the university has contracted to have the bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln on the top of Bascom Hill restored to its original appearance – a dark brown-green.
Friends, relatives and colleagues on May 23 will celebrate the life of Antoinette “Tony” Derjani-Bayeh, a UW-Madison Ph.D. graduate whose life was tragically cut short in a traffic accident.
Chancellor David Ward announced May 3 the appointment of a search and screen committee to select a new dean of students.
Described by many as Indonesia’s greatest living writer, Pramoedya Anata Toer is in Madison this week to promote his new memoir, “A Mute’s Soliloquy.”