Category State & Global

As newborn screening expands, parents need more help

December 22, 2009

Parents leave the hospital with a newborn who looks perfectly healthy. But a short time later, their doctor calls to say that the baby has had an abnormal screening-test result and needs follow-up testing.

Student-athlete leads Red and White Hunger Fight

November 23, 2009

In the weeks before Thanksgiving, most college students anxiously count down the days and midterms standing between them and a big meal at home with family and friends.

UW-Madison in top 10 in national study-abroad ranking

November 17, 2009

Record numbers of University of Wisconsin–Madison students are earning some of their academic credit abroad, with a participation rate that far exceeds the national average. What is more, they are increasingly choosing to study in previously non-traditional destinations such as China and India.

UW-Madison students seek international life, outlook

November 13, 2009

Before leaving for Ireland last September, University of Wisconsin–Madison student Sarah Zink wrote about her expectations of the study abroad experience that awaited her.

School of Business launches Global Real Estate Master program

November 12, 2009

The Wisconsin School of Business will attract some of the brightest real estate students from the top business schools in Asia, Europe and Latin America with a highly innovative Global Real Estate Master (GREM) program.

UW-Madison students foster community development on island in Uganda

November 12, 2009

Eleven University of Wisconsin–Madison students working on an island in Uganda's Lake Victoria knew they were making a difference when a member of the country's parliament came to check out the fledgling girls' soccer team they had helped put together.

Students take environmental messages, activism local

November 5, 2009

The Tales from Planet Earth film festival this weekend, Nov. 6-8, will screen some 50 environmental films from around the world that explore how stories told through film can influence our understanding of, and relationships to, nature.

Statewide value-added system to launch this week

November 4, 2009

Administrators from Wisconsin school districts are working with education researchers at University of Wisconsin–Madison to learn how to use a new student growth measure.

Network hosts Wisconsin Idea forum for engagement practitioners, advocates

November 4, 2009

Boundary-spanning engagement professionals like Sharon Younkin have organized across campus to form the Community Partnerships and Outreach (CPO) Staff Network.

Programs make a case for global engagement

November 4, 2009

When the Soviet Union launched its first Sputnik satellite in 1957, it effectively defeated the United States in the first round of the space race. And while the United States responded in kind with Pioneer 1, it also transformed its Cold War engagement by launching a terrestrial initiative — one that involved UW–Madison back then and does so to this day.

Collaboration to enhance patient safety during blood collection, transfusion

October 26, 2009

The National Institute of Health (NIH), Health and Human Services has awarded a $1.4 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant to SysLogic Inc., the UW RFID Laboratory and the BloodCenter of Wisconsin.

UW fields and gardens help feed people in need

October 26, 2009

Food bank workers have been lining up for tons of potatoes produced at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's agricultural research stations at Rhinelander and Hancock this fall.

UW-Madison students, faculty part of community news project

October 26, 2009

The debate over health care reform has dominated national headlines for most of the summer and fall.

UW-Madison a leader in Fulbright Fellows with top 10 ranking

October 22, 2009

Continuing the University of Wisconsin–Madison's strong tradition of global engagement, the campus is ranked once again in the top 10 of research institutions nationwide in the number of Fulbright Fellowships awarded to students.

Project CRYSTAL brings middle-school students to UW–Madison lab

October 22, 2009

University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemistry professor Hazel Holden and Edgewood Campus School middle-school science teacher Daniel Toomey met for the first time because Holden's daughter was in Toomey's science class.

Educational forum to bring awareness to U.N. Millenium Development Goals

October 13, 2009

The Millenium Development Goals Awareness Project (MDGAP) will host an educational forum from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, in the Great Hall in Memorial Union.

Conference brings Cartonera publishers

October 7, 2009

UW–Madison is organizing the conference “Cartonera Publishers: Recycling Latin American Bookscape” on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 9.

Public-private venture proposes Internet links for underserved areas

October 6, 2009

A broad partnership of Madison-area education, health, government and nonprofit organizations, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is seeking more than $6 million in federal stimulus funding to expand access to computer networks for underserved communities and local agencies.

Sand dunes reveal unexpected dryness during heavy monsoon

October 6, 2009

The windswept deserts of northern China might seem an odd destination for studying the heavy monsoon rains that routinely drench the more tropical regions of Southeast Asia.

Campus offers condolences to Indonesian students

October 2, 2009

International Student Services and the Offices of the Dean of Students are extending condolences to students and campus community members from Indonesia in the wake of the Sept. 30 7.6-magnitude earthquake.