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Several student service offices move to Park Street
Beginning in late July, the Offices of the Bursar, Registrar, and Orientation and New Student Programs will begin to move to a new administrative office building located at 21 N. Park Street.
Soil scientists in the spotlight at World Congress of Soil Science
Soil scientists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison will have international attention this week at the 18th World Congress of Soil Science on July 9-15 in Philadelphia.
Top prize for research on corporate finance goes to Wisconsin professor
Toni M. Whited, an associate professor of finance at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business, co-authored the best paper on corporate finance published in the Journal of Finance in 2005.
2007–08 application available September 1
The application for admission for the 2007–08 academic year will be available on September 1, 2006.
Study: Body image is not just white woman’s burden
University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists report that body dissatisfaction studies may focus too much on white women, although women of color report similar levels of anxiety about their bodies.
Study of urban roadside dirt reveals potentially toxic mix of metals
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison learned that there's more to that cloud of roadway dirt than meets the eye: What looks like ordinary dirt actually is a potentially toxic mixture of non-tailpipe vehicle emissions, including microscopic metal particles from brake and tire wear.
New process makes diesel fuel, industrial chemicals from simple sugar
A University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical and biological engineering professor reports in the June 30 issue of the journal Science on a better way to make a chemical intermediate called HMF from fructose: fruit sugar. Chemical intermediates are compounds that are the raw material for many modern plastics, drugs and fuels.