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The Candidates Respond: Jim Doyle, Democrat

November 1, 2006

Candidates’ responses Jim Doyle Nelson Eisman Mark Green Wisconsin Week: The University of Wisconsin has been described as an economic engine… Read More

The Candidates Respond: Nelson Eisman, Green Party

November 1, 2006

Candidates’ responses Jim Doyle Nelson Eisman Mark Green Wisconsin Week: The University of Wisconsin has been described as an economic engine… Read More

The Candidates Respond: Mark Green, Republican

November 1, 2006

Candidates’ responses Jim Doyle Nelson Eisman Mark Green Wisconsin Week: The University of Wisconsin has been described as an economic engine… Read More

Five Questions With…

November 1, 2006

This week’s subject is Janet Hagen. Describe your job. How long have you worked at UW–Madison? I am a university services… Read More

Actor takes words from the page to the stage

November 1, 2006

Students in a freshman English seminar had a rare opportunity last week when American Players Theatre actor David Daniel visited their class. Read More

UT’s ‘Arabian Nights’ to tell tale of tolerance

November 1, 2006

In the University Theatre production of “The Arabian Nights,”the tension between distrust and detente is as real as the evening news. The production opens on Thursday, Nov. 16 Read More

Book Smart

November 1, 2006

They had been taken in, many of them, manipulated by the government they had sworn to uphold. And the price the Japanese tokko-tai pilots… Read More

Study: BadgerCare expands health care coverage for low-income families

November 1, 2006

Wisconsin’s BadgerCare program is expanding health insurance coverage for families who have left welfare, says a just-published paper by scholars from the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Institute for Research on Poverty. Read More

PAVE trains students in sexual assault awareness

November 1, 2006

When Jenny Hansen's friend told her the story of an unwanted sexual experience, she didn't call it rape, saying, "I shouldn't have drank so much." Hansen repeatedly tried to explain to her friend that the incident wasn't her fault. But no matter what Hansen said, her friend just kept blaming herself. At that moment, Hansen decided join the fight against sexual assault. She went through Promoting Awareness and Victim Empowerment (PAVE) training and became a PAVE facilitator. Read More

UW historian helps PBS paint vivid picture of the California Gold Rush

November 1, 2006

As an historian, Susan Lee Johnson finds few subjects of American history more irresistible than the California Gold Rush, a movement that unfolded so fast and furiously that it must seem like watching history get shot from a cannon. Read More

La Follette School hosts 900 public policy experts

November 1, 2006

The Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will welcome more than 900 public policy experts to a national conference this week at the Monona Terrace Convention Center. Read More

Cinefest to feature civil rights, spoken word

November 1, 2006

Cinefest, a four-day extravaganza of documentary and politically charged filmmaking, will be held Thursday–Sunday, Nov. 16–19, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More

Web’s ‘youth appeal’ lost on campaigns

October 31, 2006

While millions of young people use the Internet to build expansive social networks, most political campaigns never manage to take the training wheels off the technology, using it mainly for tightly controlled, one-way communication. Communication professor Michael Xenos is studying the disconnect between new media and old politics. Read More

Cynthia Enloe to speak about women and the U.S. war in Iraq

October 31, 2006

Cynthia Enloe, one of America's pre-eminent theorists of gender and the military, and Research Professor of Women's Studies and International Development at Clark University, will speak at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Thursday, Nov. 9. Read More

Milestones

October 31, 2006

English Professor Emily Auerbach will be honored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) with a Cabinet 99 Award at a symposium on Nov. 3. Read More

Study: BadgerCare expands health care coverage for low-income families

October 30, 2006

Wisconsin's BadgerCare program is expanding health insurance coverage for families who have left welfare, says a just-published paper by scholars from the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter to visit

October 30, 2006

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Bogdanich, an investigative reporter and editor for The New York Times, will visit the University of Wisconsin–Madison as this fall's Public Affairs Writer in Residence. Read More

Web portal to paint ‘big picture’ of Wisconsin traffic safety

October 26, 2006

A unique Web site that pools information from many databases will help public audiences and Wisconsin transportation officials gain a broader perspective on traffic safety issues and needs. Read More

Kastenmeier Lecture focuses on tech transfer, national science policy

October 26, 2006

The importance of landmark federal patent legislation to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and to an effective national science policy is the topic of the 2006 Kastenmeier Lecture at the UW–Madison Law School on Friday, Nov. 3. Read More

Professor receives YWCA award

October 26, 2006

Michael Thornton, faculty director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Morgridge Center for Public Service and professor of Afro-American and Asian American Studies, received the individual Racial Justice Award from the Madison YWCA at its fifth annual Racial Justice Conference on Oct. 19. Read More