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Badgers’ home football season goes ‘carbon neutral’
As part of a campuswide commitment to reducing our environmental footprint, the Badgers' home football season has been designated as the first ever Big Ten "carbon-neutral" season.
Research aims to cool runoff to protect coldwater streams
The ocean of stormwater that flows off of the sun-baked urban landscape is packing heat, and trout are starting to feel it.
UW-Madison responds to influenza
Like colleges and universities across the country, UW–Madison officials are responding to students becoming ill with symptoms characteristic of H1N1 influenza. As of Sept.
Symposium addresses ‘flexibility stigma’
“The Flexibility Stigma: How to Make Flexibility Policies Truly Usable” will be the topic of the 2009 Denice D. Denton Memorial Symposium on Friday, Oct. 2, at 1610 Engineering Hall.
Potato blight reveals some secrets as genome is decoded
Late blight caused the 19th century famine that sparked a wave of emigration from Ireland to the United States, but the disease has also infected tomatoes and potatoes this year. Potatoes, the world's fourth-largest food crop, were raised on 65,500 acres in Wisconsin in 2007. If a potato field is not treated with pesticide, late blight can destroy the crop in a few days.
For the Record
Wisconsin Week, the newspaper of record for UW–Madison, carries legally required notices for faculty and staff
Surgeon returns after five decades to complete elusive bachelor’s
Consider the four-year plan, the five-year plan and the not-to-be-forgotten six-year pace to the bachelor’s degree, and then get a look at Richard Smith’s transcripts.
Domestic-partner benefits celebration planned
The UW–Madison community is invited to a celebration and question-and-answer session about domestic-partner health-insurance benefits.
Faculty featured in School of Music concert series
The School of Music’s Faculty Concert Series has always been one of the best musical bargains in town. The series features performances by world-renowned musicians with rich recording and touring chops, all for the price of lunch from a cart on the State Street Mall.