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Five Questions With…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Journalism students map coverage of Halloween on State Street
As the celebration of Halloween on State Street unfolds this weekend, a corps of University of Wisconsin–Madison journalism students will cover the event live under the guidance of professional reporters. Read More
Door to college readiness opens with technology academy
The UW–Madison Information Technology Academy has been one of the university's more novel — and successful — approaches to improving undergraduate diversity and providing greater opportunity to students who are underserved throughout higher education, and especially in the sciences. Read More
Distinguished professor emeritus of engineering dies
University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering Phil Myers, a pioneer in combustion engine research and influential automobile industry consultant, died on Oct. 18 at the age of 90. Read More