A decade of urban dance movement evolution will be marked as competitors from around the world converge on UW-Madison May 1-5 for 10th Annual International Festival of Urban Movement.
UW-Madison students will put their entrepreneurial skills to the test Friday in the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition.
Gilles Bousquet, dean of international studies and vice provost for globalization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will rejoin the university’s faculty in July after taking leave to serve as UW-Eau Claire’s interim chancellor during the 2012-13 academic year.
After 36 years as professor of violin at UW-Madison, Tyrone Greive is retiring this spring. But the indefatigable musician, well-known to Madison audiences as the former concertmaster of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, will still teach, perform and indulge his lifelong passion for Polish string literature.
Latoria Isom, a recently hired IS Technical Support Technician at UW-Madison’s Administrative Information Management Systems (AIMS), loves her job of installing and repairing computers for faculty and staff throughout campus. “There’s always something new to learn,” she says. “I don’t like to be bored and it’s never the same thing.”
Anthony Ives, Plaenert-Bascom Professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been elected to membership in the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Interim Chancellor David Ward released the following statement on Monday, April 29 to respond to student requests that he cut ties with Palermo’s Pizza.
Three University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, along with a fourth candidate who taught at UW-Madison for 18 years, have been named finalists for the position of dean of the College of Letters & Science, UW-Madison’s largest academic unit.
The College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer for the first time a course entirely based on digital learning simulations in the fall of 2013.
With the help of a solitary sea squirt, scientists have resolved the longstanding puzzle of the crystal structure of vaterite, an enigmatic geologic mineral and biomineral.
The rules are simple, explains Mike Randall, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist, who is leading the Rube Goldberg lab tonight at Emerson School in Madison. “Make a contraption that starts by dropping a marble and ends by ringing a bell.”
It is likely you have seen or heard media reports about the fund balances that the University of Wisconsin System carries and the discussion among legislative leaders and others about those balances. I would like to explain how this issue relates to our campus, and how maintaining balances helps UW-Madison succeed in our academic and research missions.
Due to budgetary concerns and the need to make the UW Employee Bus Pass Program sustainable, the bus pass will cost $24 beginning next academic year.
They are iconic locations and both will soon be getting a makeover. UW-Madison and the City of Madison are partnering to develop design plans for the reconstruction of the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street (North Lake Street to North Park Street) and Library Mall.
Rumors of Tandem Press being forced from its longtime home on the near east side of Madison are nothing new.
The Memorial Union Terrace is open and the chairs have returned. An annual rite of spring in Madison, the iconic orange, green and yellow sunburst chairs’ arrival on signifies the official end to winter and a harbinger of sunny skies, warm breezes and great views of Lake Mendota.
To help bio newbies get off to the right start, as many as 130 students will begin 2014 in BioHouse, the university’s 10th residential learning community.
Interim Chancellor David Ward issued the following statement in response to reports from the Workers’ Rights Consortium of a possible settlement between adidas and Indonesian workers.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chemists have identified an approach to use oxygen gas to convert lignin, a byproduct of biofuel production, into a form that could allow it to replace fossil fuels as a source of chemical feedstocks.
Petra Schroeder, who has served since 2000 as assistant dean for research services in the Graduate School, has been named associate dean for administration.