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UW-Madison experts available to media to discuss State of the State
Gov. Scott Walker is scheduled to give his first State of the State address to the Legislature on Tuesday, Feb. 1. UW–Madison has a number…
UW-Madison has Egypt experts available for media
UW–Madison has faculty familiar with Egypt who can discuss its people and the current unrest in the country: Dustin Carell Cowell, professor and chair…
Experts available for comment on unrest in Egypt
UW-Madison has faculty familiar with Egypt who can discuss its people and the current unrest in the country: Dustin Carell Cowell, professor and chair of…
Moynihan recognized for leadership, scholarship
Donald Moynihan, associate director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, has been elected to the Policy Council of the Association…
Chancellor’s update on the state budget process
I hope the new semester has gotten off to a good start for all of you –that you’re settled in, enjoying your classes, making…
Recent sightings: Selig Distinguished Lecture
Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. “Bud” Selig, center, and Jeremi Suri, E. Gordon Fox Professor of History, right, applaud as guest lecturer Adrian…
Study: Cows done in by bad spuds
Anyone taking the recent, mysterious deaths of 200 steers in a Portage County, Wis., feedlot as a sign of the apocalypse can rest easy. The cows, according to the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, were done in by bad spuds.
TIP/Autism Day
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UW-Madison student writes about real effects of drunk driving
When University of Wisconsin–Madison journalism student Sammy Ganz met the family of 6-year-old Treyton Kilar in the weeks after his death at the hands of…
Stan Temple: A life saving threatened species
As a UW–Madison wildlife professor, Stan Temple is heir to the outsized legacy of Aldo Leopold and, until his retirement, held the chair occupied by Leopold and his intrepid successor, Joe Hickey, the wildlife biologist whose work helped put the nails in the coffin of the insecticide DDT.
Share your Wisconsin experience as a guide for Visitor and Information Programs
Visitor and Information Programs is looking for outgoing and enthusiastic students to represent UW–Madison as information guides and tour guides beginning this spring and summer.
Education historian Diane Ravitch to speak
Diane Ravitch, regarded by many as the nation's leading education historian today, will offer an informed analysis of the current state of American education -- what's broken and how can it be fixed -- at a free, public presentation sponsored by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, and the Wisconsin Center on Education Research, with support from the Wisconsin Education Association Council and the UW–Madison Lectures Committee.
William Clancy rejoins faculty as sports medicine chair
William Clancy, who developed numerous surgical knee reconstruction techniques now used by nearly all orthopedic surgeons around the world, is rejoining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Hospice materials too complicated to help families
Families facing the death of a loved one also face an unnecessary additional obstacle: Many of the written materials hospices give to families to prepare them for the death are too complicated for most families to understand.
New program opens doors around campus for students seeking support
University Health Services (UHS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced the launch of Let's Talk, a program that lets UW–Madison students chat informally with staff from UHS Counseling and Consultation Services at drop-in centers around campus.
Microscope allows research to go where it never has
IRENI, funded with a $1 million award from the National Science Foundation, produces infrared images with previously impossible to see detail and whose reach will be far ranging.
Rhythmic vibrations guide caste development in social wasps
Future queen or tireless toiler? A paper wasp's destiny may lie in the antennal drumbeats of its caretaker.
WARF debuts Gilson Bootstrapping Series at Discovery Town Center on Jan. 25
Allen Dines of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Office of Corporate Relations will be the first speaker featured in WARF's new Gilson Bootstrapping Series. He will discuss the wide variety of resources available to new entrepreneurs, or to those just thinking about starting a business, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 25.