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Campus, community events highlight Black History Month

February 3, 2011

Black History Month is celebrated annually in February across the United States to honor and remember important people and events around the world. The following… Read More

Slide show: Snowball Fight!

February 2, 2011

Frequently asked questions, UW inclement weather guidelines for employees

February 2, 2011

The UW–Madison campus, along with the southern part of Wisconsin, experienced a major snowstorm on Wednesday, Feb. 2. This resulted in the campus canceling classes… Read More

Instrument makers give essential support to research enterprise

February 2, 2011

In engineering and the physical, medical and psychological sciences, equipment is often a critical barrier between a bright hypothesis and a scientific achievement. Science by definition involves doing something new, and that something new often requires a one-of-a-kind instrument. A whatchamacallit. A gadget. Anything from a specialized bolt to a self-propelled machine. Read More

Global Health Initiative sparks creative thinking with Incubator series

February 1, 2011

If ever there were a novel approach to a global health issue, Caitilyn Allen may have found it in a radio drama produced by the Ugandan agricultural extension. Read More

Moynihan recognized for leadership, scholarship

January 28, 2011

Donald Moynihan, associate director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, has been elected to the Policy Council of the Association… Read More

Morgridge Center supports initiatives through matching grant program

January 27, 2011

The Morgridge Center for Public Service at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently awarded 11 matching grants totaling $334,739 to support service learning, community-based research or civic engagement work by UW–Madison faculty and researchers in the areas of education, environment or health. Read More

Stan Temple: A life saving threatened species

January 27, 2011

As a UW–Madison wildlife professor, Stan Temple is heir to the outsized legacy of Aldo Leopold and, until his retirement, held the chair occupied by Leopold and his intrepid successor, Joe Hickey, the wildlife biologist whose work helped put the nails in the coffin of the insecticide DDT. Read More

Education historian Diane Ravitch to speak

January 26, 2011

Diane Ravitch, regarded by many as the nation's leading education historian today, will offer an informed analysis of the current state of American education -- what's broken and how can it be fixed -- at a free, public presentation sponsored by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, and the Wisconsin Center on Education Research, with support from the Wisconsin Education Association Council and the UW–Madison Lectures Committee. Read More

William Clancy rejoins faculty as sports medicine chair

January 25, 2011

William Clancy, who developed numerous surgical knee reconstruction techniques now used by nearly all orthopedic surgeons around the world, is rejoining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Read More

New program opens doors around campus for students seeking support

January 25, 2011

University Health Services (UHS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced the launch of Let's Talk, a program that lets UW–Madison students chat informally with staff from UHS Counseling and Consultation Services at drop-in centers around campus. Read More

WARF debuts Gilson Bootstrapping Series at Discovery Town Center on Jan. 25

January 24, 2011

Allen Dines of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Office of Corporate Relations will be the first speaker featured in WARF's new Gilson Bootstrapping Series. He will discuss the wide variety of resources available to new entrepreneurs, or to those just thinking about starting a business, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 25. Read More

White House honors UW–Madison engineering physics professor

January 24, 2011

President Barack Obama has named a University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering physics professor as one of 15 recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM), the highest federal award for mentoring in the country. Read More

Wisconsin stem cell pioneer wins Faisal International Prize

January 21, 2011

James Thomson, director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research and a University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher since 1994, learned this week that he is this year's co-winner of the prestigious King Faisal International Prize in Medicine. Read More

Designer aims to improve student-centered learning in engineering

January 19, 2011

When an exam comes back with an “A” grade, most students are thrilled, and rightfully so. Yet all too often, it doesn’t take long for the information students diligently crammed to fade as they prepare for another exam, creating a cycle, for some, of studying for tests rather than actually learning. Read More

UW-Madison provost joins nuclear safety study

January 19, 2011

An effort to gauge the cancer risk to people living near nuclear power plants will include Paul M. DeLuca Jr., medical physics professor and… Read More

Sharing the Joy: It’s a win-win situation for Badger Volunteers and community groups

January 18, 2011

Talk about Badger spirit. A volunteer program that started small now spreads the enthusiasm and generosity of more than 400 UW–Madison students each semester to schools, community centers, food banks and more. Starting Tuesday, Jan. 18, students can begin registering online to take part in the program during spring semester. Read More

Pedestrians asked to consider their safety on campus

January 14, 2011

Since the construction fencing went up around the site of the School of Human Ecology's addition last spring, many pedestrians at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have paid little or no attention to the signs telling them that the sidewalk on the north side of Linden Drive is closed and urging them to use the sidewalk on the south side of the roadway. Read More

Euclid brings new computing capabilities to UW–Madison researchers

January 12, 2011

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have a significant new computing resource. Dubbed the Euclid cluster, it enables research projects to marshal the power of many computers at once to run large-scale computing jobs much faster and to move large datasets and files at high speeds among individual servers that make up the cluster. Read More

Careers Conference marks 25 years on Jan. 24-26

January 11, 2011

Later this month, the Careers Conference, hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center on Education and Work, will mark 25 years of career education and development with its annual event in Madison. Read More