Category State & Global
Connecting with Milwaukee students, educators
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and School of Education Dean Diana Hess visited with youngsters at a Boys and Girls Club in Milwaukee and discussed new opportunities for partnerships with area education leaders including the Milwaukee school superintendent. Read More
Business student’s innovative approach helps Ghanaian farmers with crop losses
Adolph Okine introduced a formula for predicting the negative effects of climate change on agriculture in his native country, and it paid off. Read More
Clouds, like blankets, trap heat and are melting the Greenland Ice Sheet
A new study shows clouds are playing a larger role in heating the Greenland Ice Sheet than scientists previously believed, raising its temperature by 2 to 3 degrees compared to cloudless skies. Read More
Between soil and snow
Professors Jonathan Pauli and Benjamin Zuckerberg explain the subnivium — habitat between the ground and winter snow cover that is being affected by climate change. Read More
2015 Gladfelter Awards for Government Innovation announced
The award recognizes nonelected municipal, county, state, or federal employees who, through their careers or through a specific innovation, have helped solve a problem for Wisconsin residents. Read More
Surveys provide valuable data for graduate programs and prospective students
Seventy-two percent of UW–Madison doctoral candidates surveyed who hoped to find a job had a signed contract or a definite commitment for employment waiting for them upon completion of their degree. Read More
10,000-year record shows dramatic uplift at Andean volcano
The dramatic finding rested on a simple, painstaking study of the ancient lakeshore, which resembles a bathtub ring. Read More
Graduates to Watch
A few of the top students graduating from UW–Madison in December 2015. Read More
UW System Regents, officials tour Waisman Center
UW System officials recently toured the Waisman Center, known for its groundbreaking work helping people with developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative disorders. Read More
Senior wins Marine Corps Commandant’s Trophy
Michael Donovan, an electrical engineering and mathematics major originally from Appleton, has been awarded the Marine Corps Commandant’s Trophy. Read More