From combating childhood obesity to creating a geriatric center serving Milwaukee’s Latino population, the Wisconsin Partnership Program distributed more than $16 million in grants in 2006, according to the program’s third annual report to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
Seventeen managers from Wisconsin state and local government will become Wisconsin Certified Public Managers at a ceremony at the State Capitol on May 11. The nationally accredited certification is achieved through completion of 300 instructional hours in the Wisconsin Certified Public Manager Program administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jennifer Eddy, a physician at UW Health’s Eau Claire Family Medicine Clinic and an assistant professor of family medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, is conducting the first randomized, double-blind controlled trial of honey for diabetic ulcers.
UW-Madison engineer Katherine McMahon is integrating her expertise in wastewater engineering and in biological systems to study the bacterial community in different eutrophied lakes — two in Madison and one in China — to learn more about how those bacteria affect phosphorus cycling in the lakes.
A traveling art and science exhibition focusing on climate change in the Lake Superior region will open Saturday, May 5, at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland. An opening reception will be held at the center at 4 p.m. that day.
Information on summer sports camps and music clinics, lesson plans on everything from reading to genetics, parenting newsletters, a virtual museum of minerals – these are but a few of more than 250 University of Wisconsin-Madison resources for educators, parents, and students accessible on a new Web site.
Bob Enright, a professor of educational psychology and his wife, Jeanette Knutson Enright, have been leading initiatives in Northern Ireland and Milwaukee to develop, introduce and assess a comprehensive curriculum for introducing children to the idea of forgiveness.
Fifty University of Wisconsin-Madison students have been awarded prestigious study-abroad scholarships, the Division of International Studies’ International Academic Programs (IAP) announced.
On Thursday, April 19, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute will host over 700 high school students and their teachers for World Languages Day, an all-day event that aims to raise awareness of diverse languages and cultures in Wisconsin and around the world.
Jazz and spoken-word performances will heat up Music Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus later this month.
UW–Madison is home to more than 3,000 international students from more than 100 countries. As new international students arrive on campus each year, many are confronted with language barriers, culture shock, loneliness and academic difficulties, among other worries.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Susan Paddock founded Wisconsin’s Certified Public Manager Program in 1990, giving students a chance to see how branches of government operate and how the decisions they make at their level affect people who work at other levels and settings.
Several hundred Wisconsin high school students and teachers will be in Madison April 13, 2007 to participate in World Cinema Day. World Cinema Day is an outreach program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Language Institute and Arts Institute, presented in conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison agronomist has developed a Web tool to help Wisconsin farmers better manage the weeds in their fields.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison continues to garner broad national recognition, including more than 50 programs listed among the nation’s top 10, in rankings released today of America’s top graduate education programs.
From child prodigies to consummate adult musicians, Shri Ganesh and Shri Kumaresh promise an evening of absolute musical excitement when they visit campus to perform on Sunday, April 1.
In the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) will be in cities statewide this spring educating, entertaining and talking with alumni about the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Consumer Law Clinic provides legal help to low-income victims while serving as a classroom, teaching UW law students through firsthand experience.
Thinking ahead generally does not top America’s to-do lists. But professor Brian Ohm’s area is land use and community development, and he is on a mission to help improve planning practice in Wisconsin and beyond.
Like most people, mechanical engineering professor Jay Martin never really understood the challenges of living with a severe physical disability until his teenaged son, Liam, was paralyzed in a diving accident.