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Connecting with Milwaukee students, educators

January 19, 2016

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

January 13, 2016

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

January 12, 2016

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

January 5, 2016

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

December 18, 2015

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

December 17, 2015

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

December 16, 2015

The dramatic finding rested on a simple, painstaking study of the ancient lakeshore, which resembles a bathtub ring. Read More

Graduates to Watch

December 15, 2015

A few of the top students graduating from UW–Madison in December 2015. Read More

UW System Regents, officials tour Waisman Center

December 15, 2015

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

December 9, 2015

Michael Donovan, an electrical engineering and mathematics major originally from Appleton, has been awarded the Marine Corps Commandant’s Trophy. Read More