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Tubbs to sign Lewis and Clark book event
Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs is visiting the UW–Madison campus to sign her recently published book, "The Lewis and Clark Companion: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery."
Badger homecoming committee looking for golfers
The UW–Madison Homecoming Committee is inviting golfers - whether or not they are Badger alumni - to become part of a tradition by participating in the Sixth Annual Homecoming Golf Outing on Friday, Oct. 17, at University Ridge.
University Bay Drive to re-open
Late this afternoon (Friday, Sept. 19), University Bay Drive between Lake Mendota Drive and the Goodman Softball Complex will be re-opened to traffic. The roadway has been closed since Aug. 18 for reconstruction.
Poet, novelist Naomi Shihab Nye to speak on reading, writing
Poet and novelist Naomi Shihab Nye will deliver the sixth annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater at UW–Madison. The free, public Cooperative Children's Book Center lecture is entitled "Just One Gazelle Would Be Fine with Me: Reading and Writing in Our Current World."
Campus celebrates Great Choices Week Sept. 22-26
UW-Madison's Office of Transportation Services is planning a series of events on campus to celebrate Great Choices Week, which helps students, employees and visitors learn more about their campus transportation options, and to provide commuter-related services.
Science Saturdays offer hands-on learning for kids, parents
Whether it's exploring the physics of a wind instrument like a clarinet, creating a terrarium of recyclable materials and then observing the living residents, making your own polymer, or developing models of genes and how they work, Science Saturdays offer a variety of activities for middle school children and their parents.
UHS Sports Medicine clinic opens two locations
University Health Services (UHS) and the Department of Recreational Sports have partnered to launch a new sports medicine clinic at UW–Madison.
UW-Madison scientists project Isabel’s path
As the Carolinas brace for Hurricane Isabel, scientists at UW–Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center are analyzing the projected path of the storm.
Students of color to make career links with UW alumni
Students of color attending UW–Madison will get a glimpse of the real world as they interact with recent graduates at the 2003 Career Links reception Tuesday, Sept. 30.
Study: Consumers will pay more for specially labeled milk
Dairy producers are getting a clear message from consumers: People read labels and many are willing to pay more for products marketed as organic or all-natural.
New York Times’ Blakeslee to be Science Writer in Residence
Sandra Blakeslee, author and science correspondent for the New York Times, will be the fall 2003 Science Writer in Residence at UW–Madison.
Cookbook mixes literary works with recipes
For most nineteenth-century women, domestic life centered on the kitchen and the meals prepared there. A group from the Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries is recreating a sense of that life with a cookbook, using literary excerpts describing meals or meal preparation to illustrate recipes from contemporary cookbooks.
Explorer of metaphor and science to speak Sept. 26
Theodore Brown, a University of Illinois emeritus professor of chemistry whose explorations of metaphor and the nature of scientific truth have stirred controversy in the scientific community, will speak at a UW–Madison colloquium Sept. 26.
Cancer center receives $7 million federal grant
Tommy G. Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, presented a $7 million federal grant Sept. 12 to Dean Philip Farrell of the UW Medical School for construction of additional new space for the university's Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Potent toxin reveals new antibiotic resistance mechanism
It is the equivalent of the courageous soldier throwing himself on a grenade, says Jon S. Thorson, a professor of pharmacy and the senior author of a paper describing a newly-discovered method of antibiotic resistance published in the Sept. 12 edition of the journal Science.
Ehlers, physicist, congressman, to speak on science education
Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers, one of only two scientists in the U.S. House of Representatives, will be on the UW–Madison campus Friday, Sept. 26, to speak about science education.
Wisconsin Union Theater series opens with Mahotella Queens
The Mahotella Queens, one of South Africa's longest-running and most beloved musical groups, opens the Wisconsin Union Theater's Performance Series on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m.
Recession: Wisconsin feels the pain
Wisconsin workers are still reeling from the impact of the national recession that began in 2001, according to a study released by UW–Madison's Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
‘Jump Around’ tradition returns to student section
Fans in Camp Randall Stadium's student section will once again be jumping around during the break between the third and fourth quarters at Wisconsin football games, says Chancellor John D. Wiley.
Law School Innocence Project helps exonerate inmate
For the last two years, law students and their supervising attorneys worked diligently on Avery's case as part of their studies at the Wisconsin Innocence Project. The Innocence Project is a program within the Frank J. Remington Center at the UW Law School.