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VIP tours give inside look at what it means to be a UW–Madison student

February 28, 2012

The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Union South. Microbial Sciences. The Lakeshore residential neighborhood. Observatory Drive. Bascom Hill — but only the downhill route. These are just some of the destinations on the Visitor and Information Programs campus tour, designed to give prospective students, special groups and other visitors an inside look at life at UW–Madison.

UW-Madison hosts 2012 Lorraine Hansberry Symposium

February 27, 2012

As part of the 2012 Lorraine Hansberry Project, honoring the life and pioneering work of a UW–Madison alumna who made lasting contributions to American arts and culture, a free symposium will take place on Saturday, March 3, in Vilas Hall’s Mitchell Theatre. The symposium, “Conversations on African-American Youth and August Wilson’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’” is presented in conjunction with the Hansberry Project’s production of Wilson’s play.

Celebrating music from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula

February 27, 2012

The School of Music's piano department, in association with the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies program, is staging "Carnival: Celebrating Music from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula" on Saturday, March 3 at noon in Morphy Recital Hall.

Observatory Drive reopens to westbound traffic on Feb. 25

February 24, 2012

As scheduled, Observatory Drive between Charter Street and Babcock Drive will be reopened to one-way traffic westbound on Saturday, Feb. 25.

Recent Sightings: Homage to Bucky

February 24, 2012

Taking advantage of freshly fallen snow — which has been unusually sparse this winter — an unknown artist creates Bucky Badger on Bascom…

Bringing the Yiddish past to life: A tour through the Mayrent Collection

February 24, 2012

The Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries will celebrate the Mayrent Collection at a special event at the University Club, 803 State St., on Thursday, March 1 at 4:30 p.m.

Growing demand creates opportunities, challenges for Wisconsin organic agriculture

February 23, 2012

Sales of organic food continue to rise despite the economic downturn, and that bodes well for Wisconsin, which has experienced dramatic growth in that sector since the enactment of the National Organic Program in 2002, notes a new report on Wisconsin organic agriculture.

HR Design Project forums, Web chat seek feedback from campus community

February 23, 2012

The Human Resources Design Project will be hosting two forums during the week of Feb. 27 to offer a status report and gather input from employees regarding the campus-wide effort to build a new, more effective University of Wisconsin–Madison personnel system.

From Adam’s housecat to zydeco: After five decades, Dictionary of American Regional English completed

February 23, 2012

What is a Maine-born doctor to do when a patient in Pennsylvania complains, “I’ve been riftin’ and I’ve got jags in my leaders?” Consult the Dictionary of American Regional English to learn that the patient has been belching and experiencing sharp pains in his neck. After nearly five decades of work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the fifth volume of the dictionary, covering Sl to Z, is now available from Harvard University Press.

WisCEL: New learning center to open

February 23, 2012

At two UW–Madison libraries, newly remodeled instructional spaces ripe with technological upgrades are helping turn the 1,000-year-old, lecture-based, "one-size-fits-all" instructional model upside down.

Exploring interfaces between science, humanities

February 23, 2012

The semester-long, $2,500 Emerging Interfaces Awards were created as a way to explore the different ways thinkers in the humanities and sciences approach discovery.

Hunger Meal to raise awareness of social inequality and poverty

February 23, 2012

At the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Hunger Meal, sponsored by students from the La Follette School of Public Affairs, whether you get a gourmet dinner, rice and beans, or something in between will be determined the same way many receive their lot in life: by chance.

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Campus news Latest News

VIP tours give inside look at what it means to be a UW–Madison student

UW-Madison hosts 2012 Lorraine Hansberry Symposium

Celebrating music from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula

Observatory Drive reopens to westbound traffic on Feb. 25

Recent Sightings: Homage to Bucky

Bringing the Yiddish past to life: A tour through the Mayrent Collection

Growing demand creates opportunities, challenges for Wisconsin organic agriculture

HR Design Project forums, Web chat seek feedback from campus community

From Adam’s housecat to zydeco: After five decades, Dictionary of American Regional English completed

WisCEL: New learning center to open

Exploring interfaces between science, humanities

Hunger Meal to raise awareness of social inequality and poverty

UW Men’s Golf Club seeks more players in its 47th year

HR Design Project work teams focus on refining the system, seek campus input

Baumann appointed to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Surprising diversity at a synapse hints at complex diversity of neural circuitry

Two UW–Madison researchers awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships

Campus visits set for business services post

For plastics knowledge, India looks to UW–Madison engineers

WSUM marks 10 years of student radio