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Three UW–Madison teams will compete in national food product contests this weekend
June 8, 2011They spent most of the past year inventing a shelf-stable yogurt truffle, a beverage mix made with real fruit and a tangerine-flavored carbonated dairy beverage drink. Now three teams of University of Wisconsin–Madison students are headed to New Orleans to see how their ideas fare in the final rounds of two national food product development competitions being held at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) annual meeting this weekend. Read More
Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies receives $9.5 million grant to help older adults
June 8, 2011A five-year, $9.5 million grant has been awarded to a collaborative research program led by the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
‘Enrique’s Journey’ chosen for Go Big Read program
June 8, 2011University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has selected "Enrique's Journey" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario as the book for the third year of Go Big Read, the university's common reading program. Read More
Recent sightings: Ice cream social
June 7, 2011As the temperature soared into the 90s on June 7, 2011, hundreds of people beat the heat by enjoying servings of Babcock Dairy ice… Read More
Badgers vote to carry on tradition with The Red Shirt, fourth edition
June 7, 2011Alumni, students, fans and friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison cast nearly 7,000 votes to select a spirited design for the next The Red Shirt, now in its fourth edition. Read More
Science teachers to get opportunity to explore evolution
June 7, 2011Science teachers will have a unique opportunity to get inside evolution at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which has a long history of evolutionary researchers. Read More
SOAR returns home to new Union South
June 7, 2011For the first time since 2008, the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Student Orientation, Advising and Registration (SOAR) will take place in Union South, returning the program's original, but greatly enhanced, home base. Read More
Big scoop: Employee Appreciation Ice Cream Social set for today, June 7
June 7, 2011Mark your calendar for the annual Employee Appreciation Ice Cream Social, which is scheduled for Tuesday, June 7, at 1:30 p.m. on Bascom Hill. Read More
Campus architects gather at UW–Madison
June 6, 2011The University of Wisconsin–Madison's 933 acres of campus will serve as both host and laboratory when university architects from across the U.S. and Canada descend on Wisconsin. Read More
Walker, Ryan to headline Graaskamp Center Conference on new partnerships between government, real estate
June 6, 2011Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan will headline a Wisconsin School of Business conference on new partnerships between government and real estate. Read More
Senate confirms UW–Madison emeritus professor as deputy director of NSF
June 6, 2011Cora Marrett, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 26 to serve as deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read More
Bike to Work Week is underway
June 6, 2011UW Transportation Services is once again partnering with the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin to promote various Bike to Work Week events throughout town. Check… Read More
Hilliard named Multicultural Student Center director
June 4, 2011The Division of Student Life has appointed Donte Hilliard as new director of the Multicultural Student Center (MSC). Hilliard has served as the MSC’s interim… Read More
Chancellor Martin: UW budget proposal a “promising first step”
June 3, 2011Dear members of the UW–Madison community, I am pleased to report that key state lawmakers, with input from UW–Madison and UW System, have reached… Read More
School of Business dean finalists to visit campus
June 3, 2011The three finalists for the position of Albert O. Nicholas Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will be on campus in coming days. Read More
‘Virus hunter’ to speak at UW–Madison event
June 3, 2011Nathan Wolfe, an epidemiologist leading an effort to catch the next pandemic disease before it hits, will give the public a window into the big thinkers speaking at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Big Learning Event. Read More
Saturday Science at Discovery: June focus on ice cream
June 3, 2011You start with milk, but then what? Get the scoop from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, June 4, in the Town Center of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Read More
Award will help children with brain injuries
June 3, 2011On rotation at 2 a.m. at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, Joshua Medow was a junior resident when he saw yet another child come into the emergency room after the shunt designed to remove excess fluid from his brain malfunctioned. Read More
Census shows significant increase in Wisconsin’s single-father households
June 2, 2011The number of single-father households in Wisconsin is increasing, according to Census 2010 figures released in mid-May. Read More