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Beethoven Piano Competition winners perform Saturday
The School of Music's annual Beethoven Piano Competition took place on April 2, and three winners emerged from a field of nine entrants - Hallie Houge, Margaret Runaas and Jeongmin Lee.
Hidden art galleries surprise around campus
An exhibition featuring photographs by Paula White is on display at the Academic Staff Art Gallery located at 270 Bascom Hall. Photo:…
Writer’s Choice: Hidden talents from skillful hands at Ebling Library
The corpus callossum is a thick bundle of neural fibers connecting the left and right hemispheres of the brain. The term itself is Latin for…
Artist in residence transforms ideas of space, art, design
Artist in residence Tad Gloeckler (right) works with students in his Design Studies/Art 469 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts class to build a…
Contest reveals the artful side of science
The talents of UW–Madison scientists are not limited to using tools such as pipettes, mass spectrometers and modeling software. Cameras, microscopes and other more exotic…
Ten UW–Madison professionals honored with 2011 Academic Staff Excellence Awards
Ten UW–Madison professionals have been honored with the 2011 Academic Staff Excellence Awards in recognition of their achievements in leadership, public service, research, teaching and…
SMPH establishes new departments
The School of Medicine and Public Health has created two new basic science departments: the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Cell and Regenerative…
New Human Resources System to launch April 18
The UW System will launch its new Human Resources System (HRS) on Monday, April 18. The state-of-the-art HRS will handle a more than $2 billion…
Investigative reporter, Chicago business writer to visit campus
One of the nation’s leading investigative reporters and a writer who has chronicled innovation in Chicago business will visit campus this month as writers in…
Who owns my body?: Go Big Read capstone event
The Go Big Read program will tackle the question of “who owns my body?” and more in its capstone event being held April 15-16 in…
Service day planned for furlough day
All staff, faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students are invited to take part in community service projects on the Monday, May 16, mandatory furlough day. A…
Wisconsin Week prepares for electronic transition
During the past year, University Communications, publishers of Wisconsin Week, has been engaged in a process of re-inventing the methods it uses to communicate with…
New Union South: Big, welcoming, beautiful
A bowling alley in the new Union South is pictured during a pre-opening tour of the building on March 30. The bowling alley…
ABC News global warming reporter to be science writer in residence
Bill Blakemore, who leads coverage of global warming for ABC News, is the spring science writer in residence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
UW-Madison engineers help Resilient Technologies reinvent the wheel
In military combat, vehicle tires are critical, as blown tires can mean troops are stranded in dangerous situations. Wausau, Wis.-based Resilient Technologies is working on a non-pneumatic tire with a honeycomb-like design, which can't be shot out and could save lives.
Speech festival to delay traffic around campus
On Friday and Saturday, April 15-16, the Wisconsin High School Forensic Association will hold its 116th State Speech Festival on campus.
Faculty Senate approves resolution protecting academic freedom
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution at its April 4 meeting calling on the university to protect the university’s atmosphere of free inquiry and expression and to defend faculty and staff from harassment in the form of open records requests.