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First-year student beats cancer to lend voice to hip-hop, law
Taniesha Broadway of Chicago, is no stranger to meeting a journey head-on. At 13 she became a cancer survivor, having battled nasopharyngeal carcinoma — a rare form of cancer that only seven in every 1 million people are expected to develop.
Graduate School’s Knickmeyer dies unexpectedly
James F. Knickmeyer, the UW–Madison Graduate School associate dean for administration, died unexpectedly early Monday, Aug. 27 at his Madison home. He was 61.
Ceremony celebrates Memorial Union groundbreaking
With a backdrop of sailboats and the UW Alumni Band playing “On, Wisconsin,” the campus community celebrated the Memorial Union Reinvestment Project at a groundbreaking ceremony Monday, Aug. 27.
Neuro reunion shows off progress
They were brought together by some of the worst moments of their lives – but you’d never know, if you witnessed the hugs and snapshots and, yes, laughter, at the first-ever reunion of patients from UW Hospital’s Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit.
Transportation Services highlights campus changes
Transportation Services would like to remind the campus community of several recent and upcoming changes to bus routes, auto parking, moped parking and the Safe Ride program.
Campus prepares for residence hall move-in
The bulk of more than 7,100 students will be moving into university residence halls on campus on Wednesday, Aug. 29, and Thursday, Aug. 30.
Report highlights UW economic impact, retention and grad rates
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has a freshman-sophomore retention rate of nearly 94 percent, and a six-year graduation rate of nearly 83 percent, according to the findings of an annual accountability report received by the UW System Board of Regents last week.
UW plans new research and teaching facilities to support dairy, meat and poultry processors
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is moving ahead with a $75-million initiative to upgrade research and teaching facilities to support the industries that make some of the state's most iconic agricultural products.
Visual art: Exhibit explores the science behind the beauty
"About Seeing," an innovative exhibit focusing on the interaction between vision science and visual art, opens Aug. 31 at the James Watrous Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison.
UW–Madison researchers expanding study on human resilience
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Institute on Aging are studying how adults overcome social and economic challenges and whether it matters for their health, with a special focus on human resilience in the face of adversity.
‘Hacking’ to bridge a divide
On a wall in a darkened room, a single word flashed: divide.
West Nile’s ‘super spreader:’ How about the American robin?
The 2012 outbreak of West Nile virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promises to be the largest since the disease was first detected in the United States 13 years ago.
Morgridge Institute’s Velten named a top young innovator
Andreas Velten, an associate scientist with the Morgridge Institute for Research, has been recognized by MIT’s Technology Review as a TR35 honoree for 2012.
Compounds shown to thwart stubborn pathogen’s social propensity
Acinetobacter baumanni, a pathogenic bacterium that is a poster child of deadly hospital acquired infections, is one tough customer.
Eight faculty named to WARF professorships
Eight members of the UW–Madison faculty have been appointed to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation named professorships in 2012.
Industrial and systems engineering professor Ben-Tzion “Bentzi” Karsh dies
Ben-Tzion “Bentzi” Karsh, a professor of industrial and systems engineering who also earned three degrees from UW–Madison, died Aug. 18 after an 18-month battle with cancer.