Chancellor Ward provides clarification on WISPIRG
I support registered student organizations, including WISPIRG, and the activities they provide for our students, though I think my actions are being misrepresented.
I support registered student organizations, including WISPIRG, and the activities they provide for our students, though I think my actions are being misrepresented.
Cara Leeman, director of risk management at the Tribune Company in Chicago, Ill., has been selected as the new director of Risk Management at UW-Madison, Division of Business Services.
For University of Wisconsin-Madison student Chloe Brown, taking the stage at the Morgridge Engaged Scholarship Summit isn’t just an opportunity to present the results of her research on mentorship.
PwC US representatives today presented a donation of more than $1.1 million, which will pay for a professorship and support programs for students, to Wisconsin School of Business students, faculty and staff.
Performance arts scholars of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s First Wave Hip-Hop Theater Ensemble will present their solo, duo and ensemble works as part of the 7th Annual Line Breaks Festival from Wednesday, March 13 through Wednesday, March 20.
Event organizers today announced that the Dalai Lama will visit Madison on May 15, 2013, to lead “Change your Mind Change the World 2013,” a series of panel discussions with thought leaders from a variety of fields, including neuroscience, economics and sustainability, moderated by Arianna Huffington and Daniel Goleman.
Ten University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Several UW-Madison graduate programs are ranked among the nation’s best in the 2014 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
Bryan Hendricks, who became a student favorite during 12 years as an instructor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Psychology Department, died Friday morning at age 66 following an illness that had recently forced his retirement.
Officials from Madison College and UW-Madison inked a deal Monday that will make it easier for students from the college who transfer to the university to complete an associate degree.
Back in 2005, “sit-skis” for cross-country skiers with disabilities were expensive, uncomfortable and largely unavailable – except to a handful of Paralympic athletes, at price tags of more than $2,000. Today, more than 300 sitting-position skis, with an adaptable, user-friendly design, enable a much wider group of people with lower-body limitations to participate in the popular winter sport, at a cost of only about $250 per ski.
Even small tweaks in how scientists describe scientific breakthroughs can significantly change how the public perceives their work, a new study indicates.
In feudal-age Japan, cunning, unorthodox mercenaries known as ninjas were notorious for using disguise, deception, and stealth to infiltrate enemy fortifications. In the world of modern parasites, certain organisms – dubbed “ninja parasites” by Professor Timothy Yoshino – use similar tactics, in a biological and chemical sense, to trick their way past the immune systems of their hosts.
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The state Department of Administration will launch a new website this spring, OpenBook Wisconsin, designed to provide public access to state agency expenditure information.
“Innovation” is a word we’ve heard a lot lately, given that it’s the Year of Innovation and Educational Innovation is a campus priority. Innovation will also be front and center March 20 at Showcase 2013, where seven UW leaders who are new to our campus will share their perspectives on current innovation efforts and opportunities to innovate even more.
Bruce Crownover has worked full-time at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for nearly 20 years, as long as you take some artistic license with the definition of “at.”
The campuswide team working to create a shared data center service and optimized server infrastructure has launched its project website, offering details and ongoing updates on the project as it moves through to implementation.
The Multicultural Student Center (MSC) and Institute for Justice Education and Transformation (IJET) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will hold their annual spring symposium “Race &…” to encourage dialogue and action around racial identity and other social justice issues.
You can toss away that paper; Twitter just became your study guide.