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Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos (World Scientific Publishing, September 2005) with CD-ROM Robin Chapman, professor emerita…
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Wisconsin Idea Endowment call for proposals The Office of the Provost is soliciting proposals from faculty, staff and students for the fourth annual…
Summer: Over in a blink of an eye
Although there weren't as many students around, the UW–Madison campus still was a busy place this summer.
Celebrate the Camp Randall legacy
Camp Randall Stadium opens its doors this fall after nearly five years of renovation.
New Teaching Resources module on the Academic tab
Tools for instructors
Application for fall 2006 admission available Sept. 1
The Application for Undergraduate Admission for the fall of 2006 will be available on Sept. 1.
UW dairy center helps with champion cheeses
Mike Gingrich’s Uplands Cheese Co. worked with the Center for Dairy Research at UW–Madison for advice on how to make their cheese and operate a cheese-making business.
UW-Madison shows progress on student drinking
Despite the Princeton Review's label of UW–Madison as one of the nation's top "party schools," university officials say they are making progress with aggressive efforts to control high-risk drinking among students.
U.S. News ranks UW–Madison eighth among public universities
The 2006 edition of U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges" ranks the UW–Madison eighth among the nation's 50 top public universities and 34th overall. Last year, the university ranked seventh among public institutions and 32nd overall. The publication reviews 248 doctoral institutions, of which 162 are public and 86 private.
CALS dean search continues; Hogg named to interim post
David B. Hogg, executive associate dean in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has been named interim dean while University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley considers two finalists for the post.
Undergraduate business program rises to #12 in nation
The latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate business programs places UW–Madison 12th among all business schools in the U.S., up two spots from 14 th place last year.
Despite gains, women still face bias in science careers
Despite gains in the training of women scientists and the implementation of programs to help women overcome ingrained barriers, the career path of most women scientists at universities remains a difficult trek, fraught with roadblocks of bias, a sometimes chilly campus climate and the challenge of balancing family and work.
Africans in India reveal their histories in quilts
Madison will get a sampling of Siddi quilts in an exhibition in the Gallery of Design at the School of Human Ecology. "Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans of India" will feature about eight large quilts and a dozen crib-sized quilts, all done by members of the Siddi Women's Quilting Cooperative, which professor of art history Hnery Drewal founded in 2004.
Galactic survey reveals a new look for the Milky Way
With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, University of Wisconsin astronomers have conducted the most comprehensive structural analysis of our galaxy and have found tantalizing new evidence that the Milky Way is much different from your ordinary spiral galaxy.
Elizabeth Waters, Cole halls to shift roles in 2006
In order to better accommodate the preferences of residents, University Housing will shift its all-women's residence from Elizabeth Waters Hall to Cole Hall beginning in 2006. At that time, Elizabeth Waters Hall will begin operation as a coed residence hall.
Polymer bandages may give new life to old bridges
Long polymer "bandages," designed so that troops could quickly repair or reinforce bridges to bear the weight of 113-ton military tank transport vehicles, now could be used to quickly and inexpensively strengthen aging rural bridges and concrete culverts around the country.
Environmentally friendly gas cans still available
Environmentally friendly gasoline containers are available to Dane County residents free when they exchange their old gas cans as part of a program funded by UW–Madison.
New treatment may curb IV-based infections
Inserted through the skin and into a vein, long-term intravascular devices such as IV catheters deliver to patients a range of life-saving medications, nutrition and fluids, among other uses. But these life-saving devices also can provide a furtive pipeline for germs from the external world to gain access to the bloodstream of patients. A new finding at UW–Madison may help solve this medical conundrum.
$3.4 million directed to key MS study
In an effort to develop new techniques to repair and protect the nervous system in multiple sclerosis patients, including the use of human stem cells, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has awarded $3.4 million to a team of UW–Madison scientists.