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New chancellor launches ‘Blank’s Slate’ blog
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank today launched a new blog on her official UW website to stay in regular, online communication regarding the issues the university is facing.
The never-ending back-to-school sale
If it seems like back-to-school shopping starts earlier every year, it’s because it does.
Don’t forget to stop and smell the … corpse flower
Johanna Oosterwyk, manager of the D.C. Smith Greenhouse, reports that the greenhouse’s Titan Arum plant, or corpse flower, is about to bloom.
Virtue rewarded: Helping others at work makes people happier
Altruists in the workplace are more likely to help fellow employees, be more committed to their work and be less likely to quit, new research by the University of Wisconsin–Madison's La Follette School of Public Affairs shows. And these workplace altruists enjoy a pretty important benefit themselves - they are happier than their fellow employees.
PEOPLE high school students celebrate completing pre-college program
High school scholars in UW–Madison's PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) and incoming PEOPLE college freshmen from across Wisconsin will be feted for their accomplishments at the program's annual recognition banquet Friday, Aug. 2.
Longtime medical school mentor Don Schalch, 83, enjoys the journey
Although he retired in 1999, Don Schalch still rides his bicycle 12 miles round trip to work at the School of Medicine and Public Health every day as a part-time faculty member - at age 83.
Recent sighting: Hip-Hop in the Heartland
As part of the Hip-Hop in the Heartland conference, educators and community leaders improvise on stage with hip-hop musicians.
Athletic department employs new restaurant partner to elevate game day experience
The University of Wisconsin has named Learfield Levy Foodservice, a joint venture of Learfield Sports and Levy Restaurants, as its new restaurant partner for Camp Randall Stadium, the Kohl Center and other university athletic facilities.
WID conference probes math challenges in optimizing solutions to industry problems
With every flipped light switch, plane takeoff, package delivery and even medical procedure embedded in 21st-century life, there’s a series of decisions that have been optimized to make these actions work the most efficiently. A thriving community is constantly finding the best way to run these systems in order to reduce costs for companies and customers, get the most out of resources, improve medical treatments and to achieve a multitude of desired outcomes.
Riding High: Course makes biking accessible to children with disabilities
Tim Gattenby is a glass-is-half-full type of guy who brings his own brand of upbeat energy and perspective to his post as coordinator of adaptive fitness and personal training with UW–Madison's Department of Kinesiology.
Livny earns distributed computing award
Miron Livny, a UW–Madison computer sciences professor and director of core computational technology at the Morgridge Institute for Research and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, has been honored for his groundbreaking contributions to the field with the 2013 High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) Achievement Award.
Blank reaches out on first day as chancellor
Rebecca Blank’s first days as UW–Madison’s 29th chancellor will be filled with meetings, hashing out the many pressing issues the leader of a major research and teaching institution must tackle. But on Monday, she took some time to greet high school seniors and their families on the Visitor & Information Programs tour.
Missing volume shows up 75 years overdue
Last week a book was returned to Memorial Library that was long past its due date— and not just a few weeks or months overdue.
Exotic lone star tick making a home in Wisconsin
It's shaping up as a summer like no other for ticks across Wisconsin - including the strongest contingent yet of a bloodsucker new to the state.
Hormones may usher abused girls into early adulthood
During the sort of tense situation that makes palms sweat and voices quaver, children and young adults are typically awash in cortisol, a stress hormone that sounds an alarm and prepares the body for fight-or-flight responses to danger.
Norsetter retires after distinguished federal relations career
Rhonda Norsetter arrived on the UW–Madison campus as a student in 1964. Nearly 50 years later, she leaves as one of the most respected federal relations officers in American higher education.
Shannons fund faculty chair on healthy minds, children and families
UW-Madison alumni Mary Sue and Mike Shannon are providing a gift to fund an endowed faculty chair focusing on mind, body and family well-being through collaborations among the School of Human Ecology, the School of Medicine and Public Health, the Waisman Center, and the Global Health Institute.
Heather Daniels selected as secretary of the academic staff
With a long history of both committee work and administrative coordination, Heather Daniels will draw on a wealth of experience as she becomes the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s secretary of the academic staff.
Residential camps, conferences keep campus busy all summer
The spring semester may have ended in May, but the learning never stops on campus. While most students are on vacation, UW–Madison opens its doors to more than 100 residential programs that take place during the summer — each offering visitors an opportunity to learn something new.
Philosophy professor tackles God and science in public course
On midsummer evenings, while the rest of us were relaxing by the lake or puttering in the backyard, a group of intellectually-curious community members and undergraduates joined Professor of Philosophy Larry Shapiro to tackle some of the biggest questions in history.