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Food drive unites campus against hunger
For several years, the Office of Visitor & Information Programs (VIP) has coordinated an NBC15 Share Your Holidays food drive for families in need.
UWPD: Don’t leave personal items unattended
The UW Police Department is reporting a recent increase in thefts of unattended personal items such as laptop computers, backpacks and purses.
Construction season finally ending
The 2010 construction season on campus is finally drawing to a close after more than five months of traffic detours and delays.
CFYE conference coming up Nov. 12
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.
Meeting planned to discuss Picnic Point improvements
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.
Live webchat on Nov. 3 answers housing questions
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…
Student-developed website takes pulse of election on Twitter
This year's midterm elections haven't even been decided yet and already there's a way to analyze them.
UW-Madison students make “genetic machines” for international competition
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.
UW Police: Don’t leave personal items unattended
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…
Journalist discusses human rights, international criminal tribunals Nov. 3
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…
Online map allows visitors, naturalists to share Arboretum experience
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.
Expanding croplands chipping away at world’s carbon stocks
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.
UW-Madison chancellor returning to Greater China
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.
Campus road construction winds down
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…
Curiosities: Why do stars appear to twinkle in the night sky?
Courtesy European Space Agency (ESA/Hubble). Stars twinkle because we view them through our atmosphere, says James Lattis, director of University of Wisconsin–Madison…
Chemists concoct new agents to easily study critical cell proteins
They are the portals to the cell, gateways through which critical signals and chemicals are exchanged between living cells and their environments.
Students move future of transportation forward
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.
Jahn to step down as UW–Madison ag and life sciences dean
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.
Carpooling arrangements available for Ellefson memorial services
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.