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More clues on ‘Jeopardy!’ visit
One of the country’s most popular and longest-running game shows, “Jeopardy!”, rolls into Madison on Friday and Saturday, April 11–12.
UW-Madison alumna featured on 2008 U.S. postage stamp
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a 1918 graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will be featured on a new stamp for the U.S. Postal Service's 2008 Commemorative Stamp Program.
Students, professors invited to apply for Hirsch Family Award
Undergraduate students and their professors still have time to apply for the inaugural Hirsch Family Award, created by alumnus Jim Hirsch and his wife, Judy. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 14.
Lecture series embraces sharing of ideas
It happens on campus every day — people getting together, in groups large and small, to share ideas and perspectives on issues that matter. And every year, the student-run Distinguished Lecture Series Committee of the Wisconsin Union Directorate adds to the vibrancy of ideas by bringing some of the nation’s best minds and voices to campus for free, public presentations.
Students featured in upcoming Dance Program concert
Coping with the rigors of academia at a large research institution while simultaneously dealing with “coming of age” issues are challenges most undergraduate students face sometime during their four years on campus. But how they express their intellectual and emotional growth along with their expanded visions of the world varies greatly..
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Recent sightings: Barack Obama at the Kohl Center
Photo: Bryce Richter Illinois senator and Democratic presidential primary candidate Barack Obama makes a campaign stop at the…
Hot subjects—Music 319: Musical Ethnicities of Wisconsin
Most students are surprised to find on the timetable that a Wisconsin-focused class could fulfill their ethnic studies requirement. But music professor Susan Cook says her new class takes a broad view of both music and ethnicity, diving into the use of music in ethnic settlements in Wisconsin since the 1800s, such as the Swiss in New Glarus and Germans in Milwaukee. She will also explore the musical traditions of Native Americans and recent Hmong immigrants.
Faculty conflict of interest issues probed at WARF Gilson Discovery Series
Conflicts of interest for university faculty members who start their own companies will be the subject of a panel discussion on Monday, Feb. 18 at 5 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Fluno Center, 601 University Avenue.
Catheterized system wins annual student creativity prize
A catheterized system to sense bladder pressure and control urine flow to prevent incontinence won the $10,000 top prize in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, an annual University of Wisconsin–Madison invention competition.
Recent sightings: Icy test drive
Photo: Jeff Miller An underwater robot is lowered by crane into an opening cut in the ice covering…
Glassblowing isn’t just art — it’s scientific craft
Tracy Drier, the only scientific glassblower on campus, builds glassware for the cutting-edge science conducted in UW–Madison's chemistry department.
Curiosities: Why do we need leap days?
Leap days appear every four years or so, including this year, and they are needed because one orbit around the sun does not occur in an exact number of days, says Jim Lattis, director of UW Space Place, in the UW–Madison astronomy department.