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New UW–Madison School of Human Ecology dean named
July 10, 2012Soyeon Shim, a professor and director at the University of Arizona in Tucson, has been selected as the new dean of the School of Human Ecology (SoHE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
UW-Madison to offer limited salary increases to address compensation gap
June 12, 2012The University of Wisconsin–Madison will offer targeted salary increases for critical faculty and staff to address the growing gap in compensation between faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and their peers at other institutions.
Four finalists named for veterinary school dean vacancy
June 12, 2012Four individuals have been identified as finalists for the position of dean of UW–Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine, capping a five-month search for a replacement for Daryl Buss, only the second person to hold the job since the school’s inception in 1983.
New online system expected to speed approval of new courses
June 5, 2012Classes at UW–Madison can now be added, deleted or changed with the help of an online system for tracking and routing all course proposals.
Online courses offer foreign policy training for military leaders
June 1, 2012A series of online courses geared for members of the military to learn more about foreign policy and international relations is testing the geographic limits of one of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's guiding principles.
Graduate School fills two key associate dean posts
May 10, 2012Two veteran UW–Madison faculty have been named to associate dean positions in the UW–Madison Graduate School. Steve Ackerman has been named as the new associate dean for the physical sciences and Daniel Lee Kleinman was appointed Graduate School associate dean for social sciences.
Nursing program in La Crosse to end
April 19, 2012As the UW–Madison School of Nursing re-engineers its curriculum, a mutual decision has been made to end a La Crosse-based offering of its nursing program that the school operated jointly with Gundersen Lutheran Health System.
Guggenheim Foundation names two UW–Madison faculty as fellows
April 17, 2012A mathematician and a legal scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have received 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards, recognizing artists, scholars and scientists based on distinguished past achievement and exceptional future promise.
Twelve professors receive Kellett Mid-Career Awards
March 20, 2012Twelve outstanding UW–Madison faculty members have been named winners of this year’s Kellett Mid-Career Awards, which recognize outstanding mid-career faculty members who are five to 20 years past the first promotion to a tenured position.
UW-Madison ranks 27th among top universities in the world
March 19, 2012UW-Madison placed 27th in the annual Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.
Nobel laureate, White House advisor to speak about science education
March 14, 2012Carl Wieman, associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and a Nobel laureate in physics, will visit the University of Wisconsin–Madison Tuesday, March 20 to talk about teaching and learning in science and engineering.
UW-Madison graduate programs ranked among best by U.S. News and World Report
March 12, 2012Several UW–Madison graduate programs are ranked among the nation’s best in the 2013 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
Office of Sustainability launches at UW–Madison
March 7, 2012The UW–Madison Office of Sustainability, which grew out of the campuswide Sustainability Initiative, will officially launch on Friday, March 9, with an event at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
UW-Madison fares well in Chronicle of Higher Education college completion survey
March 6, 2012The University of Wisconsin–Madison was highly ranked in several categories in a recent report on college completion published Monday by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Williams named to ACE panel
March 6, 2012Damon A. Williams, vice provost for diversity and climate and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Commission on Inclusion for the American Council on Education (ACE).
Three UW graduate students named to Bouchet Society
March 5, 2012Three University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate students of color - Edward G Cole, Abiola O. Keller, and Doug Kiel - will be inducted into the Madison Chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Student Honor Society in a ceremony during its annual conference Friday, March 9.
Senior class of 2012 unveils Wisconsin Idea Scholarship
February 29, 2012The 2012 senior class officers have announced a new service-based scholarship to commemorate the Wisconsin Idea centennial and inspire the future of the university's time-honored service mission.
Incubator sessions generate ideas for educational innovation at UW–Madison
February 16, 2012Offering winter interim classes, fostering degree completion, and using video and interactive technology to improve student learning experiences are among the suggestions for achieving educational innovation at UW–Madison.
Peercy, longtime UW–Madison engineering dean, to retire
February 8, 2012In 1999, first-year dean of the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering Paul Peercy looked around at the other new kids - the undergraduate students - and wondered why more than half of them were not persisting into their second year as engineering majors.
UW–Madison named a top value by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
January 3, 2012The University of Wisconsin–Madison has once again been named one of the best values among public universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.