Cells pay even closer attention to quality control of genetic information than scientists previously thought, according to new findings by UW Medical School researchers. Before sending genetic molecules out of the nucleus to sites where they will ultimately function, cells check to see that they are complete and ready to go.
The author of several definitive articles and books about President Bill Clinton will speak at UW-Madison’s midyear commencement Dec. 20.
Campus leaders are launching a plan to hire 100 to 150 professors over the next four years.
For the last two decades, Wisconsin Public Radio and the Elvehjem Museum of Art at UW-Madison have used music and visual art to build a statewide community stretching from Kenosha to Brule.
For the past 20 years, Physical Education 134 – Relaxation Technique and Exercise has been a top draw in the physical education department, filling so quickly that freshmen and sophomores have difficulty getting in.
Scholars bridge the divide between campus and the world in many ways, and economist John Karl Scholz made the leap through a leave, spending nearly two years in the capital of the nation – and the capital of his specialty.
Undergraduate students, faculty and staff have a new opportunity to forge community service partnerships with area nonprofit and government agencies through the university’s Morgridge Center for Public Service.
School of Veterinary Medicine officials have created a $250,000 campaign to create a new Cancer Recovery Ward to accommodate the huge increase in pets being treated and to provide more modern facilities.
UW-Madison will hold a public forum Thursday (Dec. 10) on a proposed code of conduct designed to address the working conditions under which university apparel and merchandise is produced.
Not a good idea. That’s the consensus among professors from across the campus who spoke out against a proposed speech code at Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting.
Several hundred UW-Madison students will be receiving care packages to help them survive final exam week this month through a program sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Student Board.
UW-Madison will commemorate its 150th anniversary and 15 decades of service to Wisconsin and its citizens starting next month.
Ten gift ideas from UW-Madison that can make your holiday shopping easier and less aggravating. All are unique to the University and sales benefit campus academic, outreach and social programs.
A former mayor of Milwaukee, Frank P. Zeidler, will visit UW-Madison Dec. 10 to give a talk on German influences in Wisconsin politics.
Badger fans are eagerly anticipating their football team’s appearance in the Rose Bowl.
The Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences (CELS), a UW-Madison-based national alliance of professional biology societies, is taking aim at undergraduate biology education.
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A program at Elizabeth Waters Hall is countering a national trend that has seen more than half of all young women who begin pursuing a career in science or engineering change majors in the first two years.
Greenhouse gases, the long-standing villains of climate change, may have a significant new partner in crime: wholesale changes to the world’s landscapes by humans.
Tickets to the 150th Anniversary Concert commemorating UW’s first classes in 1849 will go on sale Wednesday, Dec. 9 at the Kohl Center and all Ticketmaster outlets.