Harvard Law Professor Lani Guinier, the university’s first tenured Jewish African-American law professor who is among the nation’s top scholars in the areas of access to higher education, race conscious policy and civil rights law, will give the keynote address at this Friday’s (Oct. 12) daylong annual UW-Madison Diversity Forum.
Jim Knox, Evjue-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died at his home in Madison on Saturday, Oct. 6.
WisCEL is one of the major success stories of the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates (MIU). As the University of Wisconsin–Madison spotlights practices increasing educational innovation on campus, the release of the third-year MIU progress report shows the impact of this targeted funding on high-impact practices across campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison today named four finalists for the deanship of the College of Engineering.
UW-Madison’s Odyssey Project, which provides people facing economic barriers with a chance to start college, marks its 10th anniversary on Thursday, Oct. 4 in a celebration at the Chazen Museum of Art from 5-7 p.m.
Interim Chancellor David Ward said at his annual State of the University address to the Faculty Senate on Monday that UW–Madison must be an active participant in shaping its future.
Eli Clare, acclaimed activist and author of the award-winning “Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation,” will visit UW-Madison as a Brittingham Visiting Scholar for the week of Oct. 8-12.
Designing a “green” building involves considering a multitude of variables – everything from electrical efficiency to airflow controls to natural sources of light, heat and energy. But engineering more efficient building control systems is only part of the picture; for a building to be truly green, the occupants living and working within it need to know how to behave in a sustainable way as well.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected F. Fleming Crim, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of chemistry, to serve as assistant director for the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS).
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison competes with the world’s top universities for talent and expertise, it is getting more help from women, who in 2011 comprised 31 percent of the faculty — up from 18 percent in 1990.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly today appointed a 25-member search and screen committee to help identify a successor to UW-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward, who has served since July 2011.
The Wisconsin China Initiative (WCI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is ramping up efforts to engage with faculty and staff across campus to promote interests and coordinate activities in the Greater China region as Nicole Huang, professor of Chinese literature and visual culture, takes over as director.
Can giving smartphones to people with substance use disorders improve the quality of care at the same time as it reduces health care costs? A team of scholars centered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dartmouth College thinks so, and has won a federal grant to create and test mobile apps to deliver tested treatment and relapse prevention tools through these devices.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) has partnered with several New York-based educational institutions to offer a dual-location hip-hop education lecture series via videoconferencing through Dec. 10.
Due to overwhelming interest, a second lecture on the discovery of a new physics particle has been added for tomorrow evening, Friday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m.
A strategic plan for enhancing UW–Madison’s personnel system will be released Friday by the HR Design project.
It’s about to get wonderful. A concentrated new multimedia annual giving campaign, called “Share the Wonderful,” has begun and runs through October.
Linda S. Greene, Evjue Bascom Professor of Law at University of Wisconsin-Madison, will become the University of California at San Diego’s first vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion (VC-EDI), a position created by the University of California Board of Regents and filled after a nationwide search.