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Construction season finally ending

November 3, 2010

The 2010 construction season on campus is finally drawing to a close after more than five months of traffic detours and delays. Read More

CFYE conference coming up Nov. 12

November 3, 2010

The annual First-Year Conference is designed to provide UW–Madison faculty, graduate students and academic staff an opportunity to think and learn about first-year students and their academic success. Read More

Meeting planned to discuss Picnic Point improvements

November 3, 2010

The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee and staff members from the Division of Facilities Planning & Management will be hosting a public meeting next week to discuss the status of improvements planned for the eastern tip of Picnic Point. Read More

Live webchat on Nov. 3 answers housing questions

November 2, 2010

Are you a student thinking about where to live next year? Or a parent who would like to learn more about options for on- or… Read More

Student-developed website takes pulse of election on Twitter

November 2, 2010

This year's midterm elections haven't even been decided yet and already there's a way to analyze them. Read More

UW-Madison students make “genetic machines” for international competition

November 2, 2010

As yogurt and other products are marketed as a method for improving health, young biologists at University of Wisconsin–Madison are trying to do something similar by engineering delivery of biological molecules to the intestine. Read More

UW Police: Don’t leave personal items unattended

November 1, 2010

The UW–Madison Police Department is reporting a recent increase in thefts of unattended personal items such as laptop computers, backpacks, and purses. The thefts… Read More

Journalist discusses human rights, international criminal tribunals Nov. 3

November 1, 2010

You’ve seen the headlines concerning accusations of genocide and war crimes in Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sierra Leone and countless other places. How are perpetrators of… Read More

Online map allows visitors, naturalists to share Arboretum experience

November 1, 2010

If the UW Arboretum were just a pretty place to take a walk, its new Interactive Map wouldn't need much more than crisscrossing trails, grey blobs for parking lots and symbols marking the restrooms. Read More

Expanding croplands chipping away at world’s carbon stocks

November 1, 2010

Nature's capacity to store carbon, the element at the heart of global climate woes, is steadily eroding as the world's farmers expand croplands at the expense of native ecosystem such as forests. Read More

UW-Madison chancellor returning to Greater China

November 1, 2010

University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is leading a delegation of UW–Madison faculty and staff to Greater China, with stops in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei. Read More

Campus road construction winds down

November 1, 2010

The 2010 summer construction season on campus is drawing to a close after more than five months of traffic detours and delays. The work on… Read More

Curiosities: Why do stars appear to twinkle in the night sky?

November 1, 2010

Courtesy European Space Agency (ESA/Hubble). Stars twinkle because we view them through our atmosphere, says James Lattis, director of University of Wisconsin–Madison… Read More

Chemists concoct new agents to easily study critical cell proteins

November 1, 2010

They are the portals to the cell, gateways through which critical signals and chemicals are exchanged between living cells and their environments. Read More

Students move future of transportation forward

November 1, 2010

Alumni and a student from the University of Wisconsin–Madison's La Follette School of Public Affairs are advancing discussion of transportation options that use less energy, and emit fewer pollutants and greenhouse gases by helping to organize the Energy Hub conference Friday, Nov. 5. Read More

Jahn to step down as UW–Madison ag and life sciences dean

October 28, 2010

University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin and Provost Paul M. DeLuca Jr. today (Oct. 28) announced that Molly Jahn, who has led UW–Madison's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences since 2006, will step down as dean of the college, effective Jan. 1. Read More

Carpooling arrangements available for Ellefson memorial services

October 28, 2010

The Division of Student Life is assisting students with carpool arrangements to memorial services for Dylan Ellefson, a UW–Madison student killed in an Oct. 24 car accident. Read More

American Education Week program to celebrate Education Building reopening

October 28, 2010

The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education will host a special American Education Week (AEW) program Nov. 15-16 to celebrate the grand reopening of the revamped Education Building on Bascom Hill. Read More

Law School teams with Asian universities to award executive master’s degrees

October 28, 2010

The East China University of Political Science and Law and the University of Wisconsin Law School are working together to offer a program to award executive master's degrees in law. Read More