The recently remodeled Materials Science and Engineering Building — which brings classrooms, research labs, the Materials Science Center, and many faculty and graduate student offices together under one roof — was dedicated May 9.
For the third year in a row, the Madison Jason Web site has been awarded a gold medal in the annual nationwide university communications competition of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Adopt-A-Block, a relatively new program coordinated by the Physical Plant Department, is modeled after the state’s Adopt-A-Highway program. Its purpose is to involve volunteers in helping to improve the physical appearance of the campus.
A concoction of beneficial bacteria in crunchy clusters of cookie bits has earned a team of UW-Madison food science students an invitation to a national product-development competition.
The importance of the Campus Natural Areas — and the need for a more focused approach to their preservation — is recognized by many university leaders.
A special section highlighting Dane County high school graduates, published with the May 20 editions of the Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times, indicates that the majority of those top students intend to study at the UW-Madison.
Three members of the UW-Madison faculty — a chemist, a historian and a political scientist — are among 146 people elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. New members of the Academy, an organization founded in 1780 by John Adams and other leaders of the young republic, are chosen in recognition …
Donald F. Kettl, director of the Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs at UW-Madison, has received a national award for his work in public administration.
Adopt-A-Block, a relatively new program coordinated by the Physical Plant Department, is modeled after the state’s Adopt-A-Highway program. Its purpose is to involve volunteers in helping to improve the physical appearance of the campus.
The state Legislature on May 7 approved a $1.5 million plan to fund new faculty in UW-Madison’s biological sciences.
In recognotion of the Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Statehood Day celebration, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum is presenting a two-day Civil War re-enactment at Camp Randall Park May 29-30.
A UW-Madison summer course will examine the impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, a medical and environmental catastrophe that still smolders in Eastern Europe.
A study of hummingbirds living high in the Andes Mountains suggests that life at the top slows the pace of genetic evolution.
Students studying chemistry and psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reap the good advice of Gery J. Essenmacher and Keith Kluender, and to recognize their talent and commitment, these two have won the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science 1998 Academic Staff and Faculty Academic Advising Awards. Chosen for exemplary advising practices, student development, ability …
Recent increases in the federal minimum wage have raised earnings for low-wage workers in Wisconsin without causing job loss, according to a new report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
Professor of pharmacy Donald T. Witiak, 62, former dean of the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy, died May 22 at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
Both of this year’s Outstanding Undergraduate Returning Adult Students have chosen their career paths based on difficult life experiences they encountered along the way to achieving their degrees.
A Madison teacher will be among those receiving alumni awards from the UW-Madison’s School of Education on May 9. Donald Hunt, a long-time teacher and chair of the art department at Madison West High School, will receive one of two Outstanding Recent Graduate Awards. Hunt received a master of arts degree in 1988 and a …
Steven Price, UW-Madison’s director of University-Industry Relations, has for two decades indulged a deep curiosity with the mother of all highways, Interstate 80, which girdles the continent from New York City to San Francisco.
The Society of Automotive Engineers has created a new educationalaward honoring Phillip S. Myers, an emeritus UW-Madison professor of mechanical engineering.