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Strong rains cause flooding damage in 60-plus campus buildings
A powerful noon-hour storm that dropped more than three inches of rain in central Madison caused a rash of flooding problems across the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. No major safety issues were reported involving either humans or animals. The campus is open for the remainder of day and will be open on Friday.
Magazine lauds UW–Madison leaders in hockey, film
Madison Magazine has awarded annual Editors' Choice Awards to a pair of hockey coaches and the interim director of the Wisconsin Film Festival at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Students help organize Lebanese relief efforts
While completing summer engineering internships at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, six students from the American University of Beirut (AUB) are organizing relief efforts they hope will aid some 750,000 Lebanese civilians displaced as a result of recent bombings.
Marketing faculty earn national attention
Marketing professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business continue to gain national recognition for the strength of their research.
New MRI technique quickly builds 3-D images of knees
A faster magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data-acquisition technique, developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will cut the time many patients spend in a cramped magnetic resonance scanner, yet deliver more precise 3-D images of their bodies.
National roster of science illustrators to meet at UW–Madison
The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Conference, hosted in 2006 by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will be held Sunday, July 30-Saturday, Aug. 5.
Law School sponsors police chief training sessions
About 30 police chiefs and sheriffs from around Wisconsin are meeting in Madison this week to examine strategies for dealing with specific problems in community law enforcement.
Status report on Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic
The UW–Madison Equity and Diversity Center concluded a thorough investigation earlier this month into charges of harassment and discrimination at the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic (REI). That report was made public on Monday following a media request, along with statements of reaction from both the School of Medicine and Public Health and the university administration. Both statements follow.
PEOPLE summer program puts 994 students on college track
While any number of teenagers are riding roller coasters, serving hamburgers or sleeping until noon this summer, 321 middle school and 673 high school students in the University of Wisconsin–Madison PEOPLE Program are focused on getting into college.
Summer class helps K-12 teachers tap into spoken word
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is offering a special class for teachers and youth services personnel, most from Madison and Milwaukee, on harnessing the might of spoken words.
Diversity office to celebrate opening with multicultural extravaganza
Latin music and spoken-word poetry champions will raise the rafters at the Majestic Theater, 115 King St., at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 28.
Research dishes out flexible computer chips
New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials.
Nine receive named professorships
With research areas ranging from nanotechnology to language acquisition, from Latin American history to Enlightenment scholars in France and more, nine University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members have been awarded named professorships by the UW Board of Regents.
New program to advance personal health care through technology
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today issued a call for proposals for a new program to stimulate innovations in personal health information technology.
Register now for UW–Madison School of the Arts at Rhinelander
Openings are still available for School of the Arts, a University of Wisconsin–Madison program in Rhinelander that offers dozens of hands-on workshops for adults in art and folk art, arts management, computer arts, movement and relaxation, music, photography, theatre and drama, and writing.
Experts debate best alternative to mother’s milk
Two University of Wisconsin–Madison experts have differing opinions about whether formula or "donor milk" is a better alternative for babies.
Badger Poll results to be released July 17-19
The opinions of Wisconsin residents on a range of issues - from President Bush's job performance to immigration to the proposed state constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage - will be released to the media next week.
Attention students interested in study abroad
Do you want to spend your spring semester in a different location? Here is a great opportunity.
Fellowships support conservation teaching, research
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of eight campuses selected to serve as host universities for the prestigious Doris Duke Conservation Fellows Program during the next two academic years.