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Hip-hop filmmaker weighs in on manhood, sexual violence
Byron Hurt, a filmmaker who loves hip-hop and is the co-founder and former associate director of the United States Marine Corps gender violence prevention program, will address students and community members about sexual violence on Monday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Theater. Read More
Exhibits reveal famous patrons of the arts also loved science
Medici enthusiasm for science as well as art during the three centuries the family reigned over Florence and Tuscany is now on display at UW–Madison. Read More
Graduate science education program to expand to more universities
The UW–Madison-based Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) has received a three-year, $5.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand a campus science education program to five other major research universities. Read More
Using evolution, UW team creates a template for many new therapeutic agents
By guiding an enzyme down a new evolutionary pathway, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers has created a new form of an enzyme capable of producing a range of potential new therapeutic agents with anticancer and antibiotic properties. Read More
Basic research robust in face of more university patenting
A UW–Madison study of more than 1,800 U.S. life scientists found that, despite an explosion in academic patenting in recent years, most life science professors still do research the "old-fashioned" way: they win federal grants, publish results in scientific journals, and graduate Ph.D. students. Read More
National Stem Cell Bank announces addition of new cell lines
The National Stem Cell Bank has announced that it has received select human embryonic stem cell lines from Novocell, a leading stem cell engineering company based in San Diego. With the addition of the new lines, the National Stem Cell Bank will have on deposit 14 of the 21 cell lines listed on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) federal registry. Read More
Miernowski wins national online education award
The 2007 "R1edu Award" for Distinguished Faculty Contributions to Online Learning has been presented to Professor Jan Miernowski of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Town hall meetings scheduled for Oct. 8, 10 and 25
Join colleagues from across campus in learning about the new interdisciplinary Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, designed to foster collaborations that result in breakthrough discoveries. Read More
Curiosities: Why is the ocean salty?
The saltiness of the sea comes from dissolved minerals, especially sodium, chlorine, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, says Galen McKinley, a UW–Madison professor… Read More
2008–09 Application is Available
The 2008–09 Application for Undergraduate Admission is now available. Read More
Jordan Gerth: Souping up state weather forecasts
Since arriving at UW–Madison from Kenosha in 2005 as a freshman, the atmospheric and oceanic sciences major has taken a lead role in a project that is making campus weather research tools available to frontline forecasters in Wisconsin’s National Weather Service (NWS) regional offices. Read More
UW Badgers, farmers enjoy benefits of whey sports drink
When the University of Wisconsin football Badgers take the field this fall, they will have a secret weapon behind them: Wisconsin's dairy cows. Read More
Multicultural center hosts campus get-together
One of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's longest-running and most successful student orientation programs will hold its 26th annual get-together Friday, Sept. 7, starting at 7 p.m at Memorial Union. Read More
L&S to hold open house on Friday, Sept. 7
Students in the College of Letters and Science are invited to an open house to learn about the college’s advising services and plans for the coming academic year. Read More
National experts offer predictions and insights at Economic Outlook Conference
Four leading economists will share their insights and predictions for the 2008 economy and beyond at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Economic Outlook Conference on Friday, September 14 at the Fluno Center for Executive Education in Madison. Read More
‘World Beyond Our Borders’ highlights international books
From oral traditions in northern Europe to modern Turkish-German novels, from an anthropologist's memoir of India to Kissinger's impact on the last century, this fall's "World Beyond Our Borders" series offers a lively and eclectic mix of new work by UW–Madison faculty. Read More
Milestones
Sharon M. Vetter has joined the School of Pharmacy as its new assistant dean for research administration. Vetter had been with the Department of Pediatrics. Read More
Photographer links politics, personal experiences
For Michael Kienitz, photography is a portal between the political and the personal. He is interested in the power of an image to create a connection between photographer and subject and then with the viewer, and the possibilities those connections might have to promote change. Read More
For the Record
Wisconsin Week, the newspaper of record for UW–Madison, carries legally required notices for faculty and staff. Read More