Category Society & Culture
Go Big Read book ‘The Poison Squad’ offers food for thought
Would you like a little cinnamon with your brick dust? Wait. You didn’t know you were eating brick dust? Such was the case before the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, banning adulterated or misbranded food and drugs. You can thank Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a man you likely haven’t heard of.
UW–Madison merits silver rating in first sustainability assessment
Actions included a University Housing initiative that in one year eliminated the need for more than 386,000 disposable food containers, and the diversion of more than 450 tons of organic waste from landfills to composting and an energy-producing anaerobic digester.
‘Radical Pedagogy’ exhibition opens Oct. 11 in new Lathrop Gallery Space
The photographs, visual art and films bear witness to the influence of Margaret H’Doubler, who made dance a rigorous academic discipline and the body the route to scientific inquiry, self-discovery, creativity and citizenship.
Wisconsin School of Business enrolls first class in Business Analytics Graduate Program
New one-year, STEM-designated program at the Wisconsin School of Business helps students gain skills to thrive in a data-driven business world.
Go Big Read book ‘The Poison Squad’ featured on WPR’s ‘Chapter a Day’
Blum’s book pays tribute to Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, dubbed the “father of the pure food and drug act.”
Science writer wins award for ‘Origins’ series
Commenting on “Origins,” the judges stated: “The writer crafted a compelling and accessible narrative from three complex origin stories: of galaxies, of life on Earth, and of humankind."
Hofacker named director of UW–Madison’s Posse scholarship program
The program identifies and awards full-tuition scholarships to public high school students with extraordinary potential who may be overlooked in the traditional college selection process.
Badgers have the top t-shirt cannon in college athletics. Boom.
Bucky Badger fires t-shirts into the student section at Camp Randall Stadium with the new t-shirt cannon during the game against Central Michigan…
Two UW–Madison professors named MacArthur Fellows
“Lynda Barry and Andrea Dutton are extraordinary scholars and we are thrilled about this recognition of their work," says Provost Karl Scholz. "We are enormously excited to see their remarkable contributions in the years ahead.”
‘These spaces are sacred’: Ho-Chunk speaker urges mindfulness, reverence of campus indigenous sites
She invited audience members to picture the land as it once was, with wigwams up and down the Isthmus and a gathering space for international council meetings of tribal leaders near today’s Wisconsin State Capitol.
Director hired to lead UW–Madison’s Public History Project
Kacie Lucchini Butcher, a public historian and award-winning museum curator who works with marginalized communities to tell their stories, will lead a multiyear effort to uncover and give voice to those who experienced, challenged and overcame prejudice on the UW campus.
WCER launches $1.5 million internship study of six Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The NSF-funded study aims to examine students’ experiences with their internships and how these experiences may impact their future wages, employment status and vocational self-efficacy.
Susan Zaeske named interim director of Division of the Arts
Zaeske, an experienced campus leader, teacher and researcher, will lead the division as its interim director. Outgoing Director John Baldacchino has assumed a role as professor of arts education in the Art Department.
Hamel Music Center prepares for final tuning
The final touches of construction were being put in place during a preview tour of the Hamel Music Center Sept. 16. The Mead Witter School of Music is looking for volunteers Sept. 19 and 20, to sit quietly in the audience and hear professional acousticians perform the final tuning.
Sifting and winnowing turns 125: The tumultuous story of three little words
Sifting and winnowing has a special meaning at UW–Madison. Those words were first shared on Sept. 18, 1894, by the UW Board of Regents in defense of a professor named Richard Ely. How did an agricultural phrase come to symbolize academic freedom?
School of Music seeks volunteers to help tune new music hall
The Hamel Music Center is ready for its final tuning. Volunteers are needed to quietly take a seat in the audience of the performance halls while professional acousticians measure and evaluate the sound of various instruments and ensembles.
C-SPAN bus coming to 2020 presidential battleground Wisconsin
The bus will visit UW–Madison on Sept. 16 to engage students, faculty and community members — part of a seven-week tour of some of the states that will play a pivotal role in the 2020 presidential election.
Ongoing campus effort will seek to deepen understanding of Ho-Chunk history
A series of special events stretching through 2020 will focus campus attention on the history and traditions of the Ho-Chunk, the indigenous people whose ancestral homeland includes Teejop (Four Lakes), where UW–Madison now exists.
Steeped in history: Underground update is Bascom Hill’s latest chapter
Bascom Hill looks a little bit different at the moment than it did at the end of spring semester. Crews are busy replacing underground utilities, some of which date back to the 1890s. How well do you know your Bascom Hill history?
New Faculty Focus: Megan Doherty Bea
Megan Doherty Bea Q&A Megan Doherty Bea, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science Hometown: Media, Pennsylvania Educational/professional background: I’m a sociologist by…