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Campuswide fire drills take place this week

September 19, 2007

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to listen for and participate in campus building fire drills taking place Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 19 and 20.

Hybrid buses come to campus

September 19, 2007

Two of Wisconsin’s first hybrid electric-powered buses will be in service on campus soon.

Roundtable begins Oct. 10

September 19, 2007

Faculty and staff are invited to join colleagues and friends for lunch, listening and learning during the fall University Roundtable.

Event focuses on entrepreneurship

September 19, 2007

UW-Madison alumni will discuss “Money, Marketing and Mentors” during a panel discussion on entrepreneurship.

Getting in: The not-so-secret admissions process

September 19, 2007

As any high school senior can attest, the college search process is complicated these days. Woven among the entrance exams and the application forms and the deadlines are myths about who gets in and who doesn’t—and why. On Wisconsin, the university’s alumni magazine, talks to the people who make those decisions every day and learns that numbers are only part of the equation.

Major grant advances UW’s clinical and translational research enterprise

September 18, 2007

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison's new Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) one of the largest grants in the history of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, making UW–Madison a key player in an ambitious NIH plan to transform the country's clinical and translational research enterprise.

Constitution Day 2007

September 17, 2007

Memo from Provost Patrick Farrell about Consistution Day Web site.

Survey studies South Madison housing trends

September 17, 2007

A recent University of Wisconsin–Madison-based survey found that residents of Madison's Park Street corridor enjoy their neighborhoods and want to remain there, but affordable housing remains a key obstacle.

Wisconsin MBA ranked 32nd by Wall Street Journal

September 17, 2007

The Wisconsin MBA program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business was ranked 32nd in the regional category in this year's Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive ranking of MBA programs.

Wisconsin prairie to be named for botany Professor Hugh Iltis

September 17, 2007

A prairie in Marquette County will soon be named for Hugh Iltis, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of botany and former director of the UW–Madison Herbarium.

Microbial Sciences Building designed for discovery, collaboration

September 14, 2007

As the doors swung open at the new Microbial Sciences Building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, students and researchers found a facility designed to spark exchanges of ideas aimed at answering biological questions of unprecedented complexity and importance.

Research and instruction in the Microbial Sciences Building

September 14, 2007

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Microbial Sciences Building will be home to a wide range of departments, programs and researc h centers.

Slide show: Microbial Sciences Building

September 14, 2007

Pedestrians walk past the exterior of the Microbial Sciences Building. The 330,000-square-foot facility is the campus’s largest academic building. Joanne Weber, center, a faculty associate…

Coach Bielema asks fans to wear red to Camp Randall

September 13, 2007

Starting with this Saturday’s football game against The Citadel, and continuing throughout the season, Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema is asking fans to wear red this week and every week at Camp Randall Stadium.

Ten students named as Big Ten Network interns

September 13, 2007

Ten University of Wisconsin–Madison students have been named to the Big Ten Network On-Campus Internship Program, which will provide them challenging, real-world experiences with the new television network.

Study abroad fair quickly approaching

September 12, 2007

Where in the world do you want to go? Over 1,000 UW–Madison students study abroad each year, on every continent except Antarctica!

Hmong contributions highlighted at diversity forum

September 12, 2007

UW-Madison is highlighting the presence and contributions of Hmong Americans within the university and in the larger community.