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Memorandum from the Provost to Category A Academic Staff
MEMORANDUM TO Academic Staff Members (Category A) FROM: Julie Underwood, Interim Provost RE: Letter from the Wisconsin Professional Employees Council (WPEC) to Selected Academic Staff…
RAs: Message to Faculty from Chancellor Martin
A message from Chancellor Martin to faculty regarding collective bargaining for research assistants.
RAs: Message to Graduate Students and University Community from Chancellor Martin
A message from Chancellor Martin to graduate students and the university community regarding collective bargaining for research assistants.
Curiosities: Does a dark-colored car heat up more in the sun than a light-colored car?
The external color does not significantly affect how much the inside of a car heats up in the sun, says Sanford Klein, director of…
Curiosities: Why do cats hate water?
Because we teach them to hate it. There are plenty of cats that love water, according to Sandi Sawchuk, a clinical instructor at the…
Wisconsin Innocence Project announces charges dropped against man wrongfully incarcerated for 23 years
More than 23 years after his 1985 homicide conviction, a Milwaukee man, Robert Lee Stinson, is scheduled to appear in a Milwaukee courtroom this morning (July 27) at a hearing in which prosecutors have indicated they will drop all charges.
Curiosities: Why do onions make us cry when we cut them?
Chopping onions unleashes a “chemical defense that onion plants have to protect themselves against insects and microbes,” says UW–Madison horticulture professor Irwin Goldman. We’re…
Curiosities: Are there more geese in Wisconsin than there used to be?
The number of Canada geese in Wisconsin is very much on the rise, increasing exponentially since standardized bird counts began in 1966, according to…
Faculty aim to strengthen technology, science education by blending them
A group of UW–Madison researchers and Thermo Fisher Scientific scientists will bring together high school students and teachers to build and use diagnostic equipment that would not be out of place in university research labs.
New vice chancellor to oversee visitor, parent program areas
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will realign its Office of Admissions and Visitor and Information Programs (VIP) in anticipation of the campus's newly appointed vice chancellor for university relations.
UW-Madison symposium addresses science’s holiest grail: building life from scratch
While at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, biochemist Har Gobind Khorana helped crack the genetic code, completing a set of experiments that garnered him a Nobel Prize in 1968.
Software tool helps Web developers identify seizure-causing content
In 1997, an episode of the popular Pok�mon cartoon gained worldwide attention when more than 800 Japanese children with photosensitive seizure conditions were admitted to the hospital after viewing the cartoon or the subsequent news coverage of it.
Do Chicago’s suburbs hold the key to understanding West Nile virus?
For a group of UW–Madison epidemiologists, the Chicago suburbs near Oak Lawn are proving to be the perfect laboratory for prying loose the secrets of West Nile virus, a pathogen carried by mosquitoes and birds that infects and sickens thousands of people each summer.
Civil War history comes to life at Camp Randall
The rich history and music of the Civil War era will revisit the grounds of historic Camp Randall on Saturday, July 25, as part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
Keeping it local: UW–Madison diners get ‘homegrown’ veggies
A new local food initiative on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus is starting very close to home.
Slide show: Blooming limnologists
The limnology “major”, one of 18 offered at this year’s Grandparents University, takes grandparents and their grandchildren on to Lake Mendota to collect samples and test the water for oxygen and temperature while aboard Limnos, a 28-foot research boat.
Sick children affect parents’ mental health
Caring for a child with health problems profoundly affects the physical health, mental health and work attendance of parents, according to a new study by researchers at the School of Medicine and Public Health.