UW-Madison’s Mitchell named young professional of the year
Everett Mitchell has a simple – and compelling – reason for why he gives so much of his time doing community service work.
Everett Mitchell has a simple – and compelling – reason for why he gives so much of his time doing community service work.
Every day researchers add another sea of data to an ocean of knowledge on the world around us – billions on top of billions of measurements, images and observations of the tiniest subatomic particles up to the movement of planets and stars.
Management expert Donald Moynihan has won an award from the American Political Science Association in recognition of the significant impact his 2008 book has had on public administration scholarship since its publication.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer targeted salary increases for critical faculty and staff to address the growing gap in compensation between faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their peers at other institutions.
Chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri, whose “Science is Fun” demonstrations have been a tradition in Madison for 42 years, will present a “Summer Extravaganza” on campus June 25.
Four individuals have been identified as finalists for the position of dean of UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine, capping a five-month search for a replacement for Daryl Buss, only the second person to hold the job since the school’s inception in 1983.
A UW–Madison team working on the Administrative Excellence project will recommend the university select a single software supplier for campus email & calendaring systems.
From the inside of each campus building, most people probably see out of a few windows each day – if they’re lucky enough to have window access at all. Those windows need to be cleaned, and Campus Services is tUW-Madison’s go-to crew for odd jobs. The same people who manage interdepartmental mail delivery and move furniture also clean nearly every window across campus.
The UW–Madison Shanghai Innovation Office, which will serve as a focal point for the university’s growing engagement in China and across East Asia, has officially opened.
Property owners are less likely to be late with their tax payments if they make three installment payments a year instead of two, according to a new analysis from the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Meloney Linder has joined the Wisconsin School of Business as its first chief communications officer. Linder comes to the Wisconsin School of Business after serving in administration for the University of Texas at Brownsville since 2008, where she oversaw the areas of marketing, communications and, most recently, institutional advancement.
Students tend to fret when they are “invited” to the principal’s office, and last April Tayler Nelson was no exception.
Campus transportation officials will recommend changes to the campus bus system that will eliminate one Route 81 bus from the rotation and the combination of Routes 80 and 85.
Classes at UW-Madison can now be added, deleted or changed with the help of an online system for tracking and routing all course proposals.
David Musolf has seen a whole lot of pomp and circumstance.