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Five classified staff receive awards for service
University lauds honorees for people skills, dedication.
Competition sets focus for WID
As construction of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery gets under way, many are wondering exactly what will happen inside the new research facility on University Avenue when it opens in 2010.
Plans for South Campus Union: green space, better facilities
For 37 years, Union South has turned a cold shoulder to the campus. And the feeling, unfortunately, has been mutual.
Writer’s Choice: Young musicians perform in WYSO events
Generation “text” can’t concentrate or think, and is unmotivated, culturally shallow and spends way too much time staring vacantly into computer monitors or texting away into cell phone screens. They are doomed, right?
Web tool puts wildlife diseases on the map
A new online map makes it possible, for the first time, to track news of disease outbreaks around the world that threaten the health of wildlife, domestic animals, and people.
Groundbreaking held for Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Gov. Jim Doyle and UW–Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge joined the UW–Madison community on May 2 to celebrate the start of construction of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Recent sightings: Going round and round
Television production for "The Wheel," a UW–Madison student-oriented news magazine show, is taped in part at the Orpheum Theater April 29, 2008.
Slide show: A far-from-trivial competition
Beginning Monday, May 5, the results of an exciting week in April — when a large production crew from “Jeopardy!” arrived on campus — will begin airing on TV screens across the country.
Mechanical Engineering Building project wins preservation award
The addition to the 78-year-old Mechanical Engineering Building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison won an award from the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation at its annual awards ceremony this week.
Time Magazine names James Thomson one of “World’s Most Influential People”
Stem cell scientist James Thomson has been named one of Time magazine's "World's Most Influential People," with Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University. Last year, they each discovered a way to give human skin cells many of the characteristics of embryonic stem cells, an advance that avoids the destruction of embryos.
Students embrace Arabic in new International Learning Community
Arabic script runs along the dormitory hall of the third floor in Adams Hall. To an outsider it looks like an intricate design flowing among the plaster, but to the residents it provides direction and introductions to their fellow floormates.