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Roundtable announces fall events
University Roundtable has announced its schedule for this fall. Read More
Tool concert cancelled
The Tool concert scheduled for tonight at the Kohl Center has been canceled due to an illness in the band. There will be no make-up date scheduled for this show. Fans who purchased tickets through the University of Wisconsin Athletic Ticket Office will receive a full refund for the concert. Fans who purchased tickets through uwbadgers.com or over the phone through the Athletic Ticket Office will receive refunds directly on their credit cards within the next ten business days. Read More
PACE reaction to downtown alcohol plan
Madison's Alcohol License Review Committee will review a plan this week that would freeze and possibly even reduce the number of alcohol licenses downtown, and the director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's PACE Project will testify. Read More
Wendt Library hosts women in engineering exhibit
In tribute to the pioneering women of the 20th century who broke into the "male" field of engineering, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) have created a traveling multimedia history. Read More
Webcasts bring together language educators, K-12 teachers
In a unique partnership, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Language Institute and the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers will sponsor several live webcasts of the Language Institute's 2006-07 lecture series, "National Standards and Instructional Strategies for Language Teaching." Read More
National stem cell bank announces addition of new cell lines
The National Stem Cell Bank has expanded its offering of human embryonic stem cell lines to include cells from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), it announced today (Sept. 19). With the addition of the UCSF lines, the National Stem Cell Bank will soon have on deposit 13 of the 21 cell lines on the federal registry. Read More
Charles Brokopp chosen to lead State Hygiene Laboratory
Charles D. Brokopp, currently a leader with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, has been named the new director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, where he started his career nearly 30 years ago. He will begin on Nov. 6, 2006. Read More
Milestones
2006-07 Faculty Promotions and New Faculty The following people have been promoted from assistant to associate professor. In the College of… Read More
Lab life: A look inside undergraduate research
For undergraduates at UW–Madison studying the agricultural and life sciences — genetics, biology, food science and biochemistry, among others — working in a laboratory is a rite of passage. Read More
Five questions with…
Lewis Gilbert is the associate director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Read More
Professor introduces unusual edible fungus to Madison
Huitlacoche stands at the precise intersection of agronomy, cultural anthropology, economics and the culinary arts. Read More
Recent sightings
Give me a hand Mannequin limbs and body parts, complete with mock lacerations and injuries, are… Read More
New technology helps foster ‘democratization of cartography’
Mark Harrower recalls a raging debate in his field in the 1970s, when some geographers worried that commercial map-making software would trigger the demise of cartography. Read More
Book Smart
9XM Talking: WHA and the Wisconsin Idea (UW Press, November 2006). Randall Davidson, senior broadcast specialist, WHA Radio Read More
Faculty make music to support abuse prevention, cancer research
Roberto Rengel, associate professor in the School of Human Ecology, will put his congas and timbales in service to the salsa band Grupa Candela in Rhumba 4 Rainbow, an event to support the prevention of child abuse and domestic violence. The event features a Latin dance show, a silent auction, food, door prizes and Extra Mile Awards for children and families who have made a difference in their communities. Read More
Study-abroad students take library patrons ‘Around the World’
Students studying abroad, of course, take pictures. The best of them are currently on exhibition in “Around the World: UW–Madison Celebrates 2006 Year of Study Abroad” until Saturday, Sept. 30, at the Madison Public Library, 201 Mifflin St. Read More
Lifelong fascination with addiction leads to UW-CTRI
Professor of Psychology Tim Baker’s first encounter with alcohol treatment in the 1970s taught him two things. First, he was surprised that seemingly competent people who have strong reasons and commitment to change their behavior were strikingly unable to do so. And he discovered that the people treating them did not really know how to help. Read More
SLIS looks to past, future during centennial celebration
The school that was born of a mission to educate librarians to work in the state of Wisconsin now boasts about 4,000 living graduates who are employed all over the world in libraries and archives of all sizes. In these days of digital files and instant information, the School of Library and Information Studies is always adapting — and it’s been doing so since its founder Lutie Stearns traveled around the state, carrying books in boxes, during the earliest years of Wisconsin’s libraries. The school celebrates its centennial this year, with a weekend of events planned for Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29 and 30. Read More
British ambassador to speak
Britain's ambassador to the United States will visit the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Friday, Sept. 29, to exchange views on global warming. Read More
Three faculty members awarded named professorships
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents recently awarded named professorships to three members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty. Read More