Category State & Global
Ingersoll Physics Museum celebrates 100 years of hands-on education
Last year, more than 14,000 visitors came to the free museum to spin bicycle-wheel gyroscopes, crank electrical generators, and yank on pulleys. Read More
Quite a mouthful: Mexican graduate student joins UW–Madison cheese judges at world championships
Experts from UW's Center for Dairy Research are helping judge cheese at the World Cheese Championships this week in Madison, rating them on taste, smell, texture and appearance. Read More
New ed-tech platform recognizes professors’ contributions to higher education
A social work professor has created "Prof2Prof," where academics can store and share work such as curricula, quizzes, assignment sheets and studies. Read More
Former UW–Madison Chancellor Irving Shain dies at 92
Shain, who advanced the university’s interests in China and established University Research Park, died peacefully in Madison after a brief illness. He was 92. Read More
Green spaces in cities help control floods, store carbon
A new study finds that urban green spaces like backyards, city parks and golf courses contribute substantially to the ecological fabric of our cities — and the wider landscape — and should be included in ecological data. Read More
New outposts from Lands’ End, Oshkosh Corp. reveal closer corporate relationships with UW–Madison
Several large corporations recently have opened outposts near UW–Madison to get top-notch advice in areas such as engineering and data analysis, and to recruit future employees. Read More
Alumni Park wins architecture award
SmithGroupJJR has won an award from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for the planning and design of UW–Madison's Alumni Park, which opened on Oct. 6. Read More
New exhibit pushes viewers to connect with an African tradition of honoring ancestors
Students, staff and faculty collaborated to create “Whirling Return of the Ancestors," which highlights one tradition of the Yorùbá people in Western Africa. Read More
Seeking grocery shopper loyalty, Fetch Rewards is “obsessed with simple”
A company started by a UW–Madison undergrad five years ago is finding success with an app that rewards grocery buyers who scan in their receipts. Read More
Testing the waters for a new kind of graduate teaching
A UW–Madison engineering professor has designed a three-credit graduate course in a virtual university format, with live online lectures delivered to remote audiences. Read More
Aldo Leopold’s writings given voice March 3 at UW Arboretum
The 13th annual Madison Reads Leopold event on Saturday, March 3, will feature a reading of the influential conservationist’s “A Sand County Almanac” and other writings. Read More
Girls and women not a “silver bullet” for ending poverty
Researcher Kathryn Moeller says such initiatives transfer the responsibility for change onto girls and women, and away from governments, corporations and global governance institutions whose actions have often led to the unequal distribution of resources, poor labor conditions and other structural inequities. Read More
UW Arboretum celebrates 50 years of winter lectures, fellowship
The educational talks for naturalists began as an effort to help extend the Arboretum’s guiding credo — Aldo Leopold’s land ethic — beyond the Arboretum grounds. Read More
Forecasting antibiotic resistance with a ‘weather map’ of local data
To help physicians choose the best antibiotic first, researchers in the School of Pharmacy and the State Cartographer's Office are drawing inspiration from the weather. Read More
Ebola vaccine inches toward human clinical trials
The need for an Ebola vaccine is acute. Periodic outbreaks of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa, including an epidemic between 2013 and 2016, caused major loss of life and serious economic disruption. Read More
UW–Madison ranked No. 1 for Peace Corps for second year
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has once again been ranked first among large schools on the Peace Corps 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. Read More
UW dining halls look to expand sustainability efforts
In an effort to reduce waste, University Housing is transitioning to compostable to-go containers and working on connecting with more local food recovery partners — just two of many ways UW’s dining halls are working to become more sustainable. Read More
Badgers at the Olympics: The complete rundown
Plenty of Badgers will be playing on the Olympic hockey teams in PyeongChang, South Korea — some for the USA, some for Canada. That means a Feb. 14 matchup will feature Knight vs. Nurse. Read More
UW-Madison to aid NASA’s push to measure Arctic’s radiant energy
Questions abound about conditions in the Arctic and its role in regulating Earth’s climate. Now, a UW–Madison-led research program aims to answer some of them. Read More
New career center is model of how to prepare liberal arts students for success after graduation
SuccessWorks helps College of Letters & Science students leverage and apply their skills to the most competitive and exciting jobs after graduation, UW–Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told a packed room at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on February 7. Read More