Tag College of Letters & Science
Journalism ethics conference to explore media, money and elections
In an age of partisan journalism and "combat" politics, is the idea of media helping citizens make informed electoral choices a quaint but outdated notion? Read More
Veteran journalist Lovejoy wins first Anthony Shadid Ethics Award
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will honor veteran newsman Steve Lovejoy, editor of the Journal Times in Racine with the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, on Friday, April 13. Read More
Selig to give Taylor lecture
Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. "Bud" Selig will be on campus next month, giving a lecture called, "Talking Baseball: The Challenges of Communicating in Turbulent Times." Read More
Woodwind-piano duo competition winners to perform March 25
The School of Music’s annual woodwind-piano duo competition was held last Sunday and the judges named two winning duos and a third with honorable mention. Read More
Badger Varsity Band and “Dukes of Hazzard” star celebrate the 1970s
The Badger Band is preparing to celebrate the 1970s during the annual Varsity Band Concert, April 19-21. Read More
Prison reading groups liberate minds, UW grad students find
Jose Vergara, a graduate student in the UW–Madison Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, remembers how the Oakhill Correctional Institution inmates in his reading and writing group reacted to a short story called "Blue Notebook #10," by Daniil Kharms. Read More
Film festival finds environmental stories in unexpected places
From Cold War bunkers in Albania to the night skies over Manhattan, Tales from Planet Earth will offer a broad - and often surprising - exploration of the environment. Read More
Celebrating music from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula
The School of Music's piano department, in association with the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies program, is staging "Carnival: Celebrating Music from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula" on Saturday, March 3 at noon in Morphy Recital Hall. Read More
From Adam’s housecat to zydeco: After five decades, Dictionary of American Regional English completed
What is a Maine-born doctor to do when a patient in Pennsylvania complains, “I’ve been riftin’ and I’ve got jags in my leaders?” Consult the Dictionary of American Regional English to learn that the patient has been belching and experiencing sharp pains in his neck. After nearly five decades of work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the fifth volume of the dictionary, covering Sl to Z, is now available from Harvard University Press. Read More
Two UW–Madison researchers awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships
Two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty are among 126 scientists from around the country who have been awarded prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships. Read More
Anthony Shadid: A journalist’s life remembered, a legacy that lives on
The world knew Anthony Shadid as a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who covered the Middle East. The University of Wisconsin–Madison knew Shadid when he was just a young journalism student on deadline for the Daily Cardinal. Read More
Mother of pearl tells a tale of ocean temperature, depth
Nacre -- or mother of pearl, scientists and artisans know, is one of nature's amazing utilitarian materials. Read More
UW-Madison explores creation of College of the Arts
For the first time in several decades, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is considering the addition of a new college, the College of the Arts. Read More
Howard Zimmerman, pioneer in organic chemistry, dies at 85
Howard Zimmerman, a professor of chemistry from 1960 until his retirement in 2010, died on Saturday, Feb. 11 as a result of a fall. Read More
Lovelorn liars leave linguistic leads
Online daters intent on fudging their personal information have a big advantage: most people are terrible at identifying a liar. But new research is turning the tables on deceivers using their own words. Read More
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter to speak at UW–Madison about post-9/11 security
Dana Priest, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes about intelligence and counterterrorism, will speak at UW–Madison on Tuesday, Feb. 28, about the rise of the post-9/11 security state in the U.S. Read More
Forest and Hawks named 2012 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Fellows
Katrina Forest, professor of bacteriology, and John Hawks, associate chair of Anthropology, have been selected by the Institute for Biology Education as Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Fellows for 2012. Read More
Metabolic “breathalyzer” reveals early signs of disease
The future of disease diagnosis may lie in a "breathalyzer"-like technology currently under development at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More