The Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, headed by Damon A. Williams, vice provost and chief diversity officer, has been honored by the 100 Black Men of Madison as the 2012 Outstanding Education Facilitator for outstanding leadership in the Madison community.
Soyeon Shim, a professor and director at the University of Arizona in Tucson, has been selected as the new dean of the School of Human Ecology (SoHE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Tom and Kathie Brock are committed restorationists with deep roots at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Summer always brings flocks of visitors to campus. Each year, many participatory musical events have added a particularly tuneful note to all that UW-Madison has to offer, showcasing connections between the university and the wider world.
There’s hot and then there’s H-O-T.
If you are an educator or community leader looking seeking ways to capture, keep and encourage your students’ focus on learning through spoken word, art, music and movement, there is still time to register for “Hip-Hop in the Heartland,” this year’s Educator and Community Leader Training Institute.
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aided by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have narrowed the search for the elusive Higgs boson, discovering a new particle with a mass in the region of 125 GeV.
Miriam Simmons, longtime director of UW–Madison’s popular Wisconsin Idea Seminar, is retiring as assistant dean for Professional Development and Engagement in the Graduate School.
Three finalists for the position of associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will meet with members of the campus community July 10-12.
The Greenfield Summer Institute, sponsored by the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, is offering a weeklong event of learning and fun at the 13th Annual Greenfield Summer Institute Jewish Memory and Nostalgia. The event is open to those looking to study and share in Jewish history and culture, organizers say. The …
Dr. David Gamm, whose lab is internationally known for deriving human retina cells and tissue-like structures from human stem cells, has been selected as director of the University of Wisconsin Eye Research Institute (ERI).
With metabolically engineered microorganisms hungry for levulinic acid, rather than sugar, a University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical and biological engineer aims to create more sustainable, cost-effective processes for converting biomass into high-energy-density hydrocarbon fuels.
Karen Moriello, a clinical professor at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, has earned a devoted following among people who care for cats in animal shelters.
The Camp Randall Memorial Arch, located where West Dayton Street meets Randall Avenue, was dedicated in 1912 in remembrance of the 70,000 troops who trained at Camp Randall during the Civil War. On Saturday, June 30, a rededication ceremony will be held underneath the arch in celebration of its centennial. From 10:30 to 11 a.m., the 1st Brigade Band will perform, followed by the ceremony at 11 a.m.
Guido Podestá, associate dean of international studies and associate director of the International Institute at UW-Madison, will serve as interim dean of the Division of International Studies and Vice Provost for Globalization through the 2012-2013 academic year. He will work with 12 faculty members and administrators named to a board to manage recommendations on the division’s governance and organization.
Jonathan McAnulty, a professor and chair of the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Surgical Sciences, has been named interim dean of the school, effective July 1, pending completion of the search process for a new dean.
Beginning Thursday, July 5, Observatory Drive between Park Street and the entrance to Lot 10 at the Education Building will be closed in both directions for approximately two weeks.
Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a historical thermometer, adding temperature data to studies of the local conditions up to the Northern Hemisphere’s climate. But the method — comparing the ratio of oxygen isotopes buried as snow fell over millennia — may not be such a straightforward indicator of air temperature.
The blood-brain barrier — the filter that governs what can and cannot come into contact with the mammalian brain — is a marvel of nature. It effectively separates circulating blood from the fluid that bathes the brain, and it keeps out bacteria, viruses and other agents that could damage it.