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Meeting on Lakeshore Nature Preserve scheduled
Lakeshore Nature Preserve director Gary Brown and his staff will host a public stakeholders meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 26, to gather input from members of the university community and the general public on developing the preserve’s 2011 budget and work priorities for the coming year. Read More
LGBT Campus Center to host Oct. 20 vigil against bullying
A glow-light vigil will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 20, as part of "Stop the Silence," UW–Madison's LGBTQ anti-bullying campaign. Read More
Badger alumni offer $700,000 in scholarship support for UW students
As students returned to the University of Wisconsin–Madison this fall, more than 400 students entered classrooms knowing they had generous support from proud fellow Badgers. Read More
New nano techniques integrate electron gas-producing oxides with silicon
In cold weather, many children can't resist breathing onto a window and writing in the condensation. Now imagine the window as an electronic device platform, the condensation as a special conductive gas, and the letters as lines of nanowires. Read More
Go Big Read gets a fast start on campus; author to visit on Oct. 25
Go Big Read, UW–Madison's common reading program, is off to a vigorous start. Some 5,000 copies of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," by Rebecca Skloot, were given away in September at the Chancellor's Convocation for New Students. Read More
Plant family tree may help identify species vulnerable to invaders, climate change
Change has been the norm for Wisconsin's forests over the last 50 years, and the next 50 are unlikely to pass quietly. Read More
Curiosities: Why do some planets have rings?
Saturn imaged by the Cassini Orbiter. Image: courtesy Jet Propulsion Lab Planetary ring systems are complicated, notes UW Space Place… Read More
Outstanding alumni chapters earn highest honors
The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) has honored 17 outstanding alumni chapters around the country for their work to provide support for local alumni and maintain a strong connection with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Music education conference focuses on race and equity issues
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will host the first conference of CRÈME International, the International Consortium on Equity in Music Education, from Oct. 20-23. Read More
Campus community invited to forums on new UW–Madison business model
The campus community is invited to be part of a discussion about a new business model for the University of Wisconsin–Madison in a series of forums with Chancellor Biddy Martin next week. Read More
Errol Morris visits campus; audience invited to TV taping
With UW–Madison’s Year of the Arts in full swing, a tribute to documentary filmmaker (and 1969 alumnus) Errol Morris is one of the marquee events during the fall semester. Now, the cameras will turn on Morris himself, as an audience of students and friends welcomes him back to Madison. Read More
Ceremony honors Sandy Wilcox’s legacy at the UW Foundation
On a sun-splashed late afternoon, colleagues, friends and campus partners joined Wednesday at the Porter Boathouse to fete Andrew A. “Sandy” Wilcox and celebrate his 22 years as president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation. Read More
UW-Madison design studies co-sponsors international conference
The design studies department and Design Gallery at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are co-sponsoring Architecture in Perspective 25, the international conference of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI), in Madison on Oct. 20-24. Read More
La Follette director elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration
University of Wisconsin–Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs director Carolyn J. Heinrich has been elected to become a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, one of the youngest members to ever be elected since Congress chartered the academy in 1967. Read More
Nazi fighter, alumna honored in exhibit, lecture
Mildred Fish-Harnack, a famous University of Wisconsin–Madison alumna who was the only American executed in Nazi Germany as an underground conspirator on orders of Adolf Hitler, is being honored in an exhibit opening today (Oct. 13) and a lecture Friday, Oct. 15. Read More