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Participate in implementing the IT Strategic PlanFramework
Shortly after the publication of the new Campus Strategic Framework, Ron Kraemer, CIO and vice provost for information technology, released a draft of the IT Strategic Plan Framework. The plan highlights approximately 25 strategic priorities for improving campus IT services and infrastructure.
Professor, student start initiative to encourage rain gardens
James T. Spartz, a graduate student in the life sciences communication department, knows exactly where most of the excess rainwater from Madison’s Arbor Hills neighborhood flows: It ends up in three ponds in the UW–Madison Arboretum, where it deposits harmful amounts of sediment and organic nutrients.
Oral history program preserves, promotes recorded memories
If 30-second sound bites are what you want, Troy Reeves is not your man. In his world, 30 minutes barely scratches the surface. As head of the Oral History Program, Reeves is the campus’s go-to guy for the kind of in-depth conversations contained in more than 3,500 hours of audio interviews that preserve a substantial slice of the university’s past.
Recent sightings: Let ’em eat pie!
Student Marisa Kahler (center) plunges her face into a fudge-bottom pie during the pie-eating contest at the Taste of the Terrace event at the…
Slide show: The Making of “Hair”
UW-Madison’s production of “Hair”, which will close University Theatre’s season, has entailed 24 undergraduate cast members, a guest director, a grueling rehearsal schedule and an ambitious goal of being as authentic as possible.
Researchers use brain interface to post to Twitter
In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter - just by thinking about it.
‘Motorized’ DNA opens door to autonomous molecular experiments
Using the same protein molecule that scientists have used for decades to copy genetic material, researchers have developed a molecular motor for propelling DNA.