UW-Madison responds to student deaths
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus community is mourning the deaths of three of its students in a Midvale Boulevard car accident early today (Aug. 27).
Tag: College of Letters & Science
First-year Interest Groups take off at UW-Madison
Beginning as a pilot program in 2001, First-Year Interest Groups (FIGs) set out to provide diversity education, connect academic pursuits with residence life and offer integrated learning across a cohort of courses. In its first year, FIGs supported 75 students within four FIGs. Since then, the program has blossomed to more than 580 students and 31 FIGs.
Curiosities: What’s behind the claims that the new particle accelerator in Europe may create black holes that could destroy the Earth? Should we be worried?
When the Large Hadron Collider starts running this summer near Geneva, Switzerland, some physicists have predicted that some of its high-energy proton collisions could produce microscopic black holes. Concerned about the ramifications of such black holes, two men filed a lawsuit in March in Hawaii contending that safety concerns have been inadequately addressed at the …
Professor sees optimism in prejudice research
It is a question on many Americans’ minds: Is the United States ready for a black president, or will deep-rooted and even unconscious prejudices show at the polls?
UW-Madison ecologist receives MacArthur Award
University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology professor Monica Turner was lauded Aug. 4 for work that was once criticized as “pseudoscience.”
South Pole researchers training this week at UW’s Physical Sciences Lab
This week marks the annual “Driller and Deployer Workshop” for research staff who will work at the South Pole as part of the well-known IceCube Neutrino Observatory project.
University Theatre season full of partnerships, collaborations
University Theatre (UT) takes the concept of teamwork to new heights in its 2008-09 season, partnering with three different Madison producing organizations to offer new and varied learning experiences for the students that UT serves.
Researcher finds that women are speaking up
There’s a whole industry of books and seminars that hinge on the premise that women somehow need to be “fixed” when it comes to communication and must change the way they talk and behave to advance their career.
General election campaign advertising surpasses $50 million in first two months
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are airing more advertisements in more media markets than their counterparts did during a comparable period in the 2004 election campaign, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study.
Study: No gender differences in math performance
A team of scientists says that there aren’t gender differences in math performance any longer.
UW-Madison historian predicts the end of science ‘superpowers’
Is the sun beginning to set on America’s scientific dominance? Much like the scientific superpowers of France, Germany and Britain in centuries’ past, the United States has a diminishing lead over other nations in financial investment and scholarly research output in science and engineering.
Professor wins political science research prize
Assistant professor Susan Webb Yackee of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has won the Paul Volcker Endowment Junior Scholar Research Grant from the American Political Science Association’s Public Administration Section.
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center hires scientific programs manager
The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has hired a translator to connect researchers who would normally live in entirely separate research worlds.
Inventive county government program wins Gladfelter Award
An innovative program for collecting and disposing of unused medication was chosen as this year’s winner of the Lloyd D. Gladfelter Award for government efficiency and effectiveness.
Study uncovers how Ritalin works in brain to boost cognition, focus attention
In a paper publishing online this week in Biological Psychiatry, UW-Madison psychology researchers report that Ritalin fine-tunes the functioning of neurons in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) – a brain region involved in attention, decision-making and impulse control – while having few effects outside it.
Studies of cell traits nets big award for UW-Madison researcher
UW-Madison biochemist Doug Weibel has received a prestigious Searle Scholar Award.
UW-Madison’s ‘African Storyteller’ premieres on ResearchChannel
On June 18, the ResearchChannel began airing “The Storyteller with Professor Harold Scheub,” the story of Sheub’s remarkable experience with African storytellers.
A father’s legacy will help future students
After her father died two years ago, Ellen Zweibel received an inheritance. She wasn’t quite sure what she would do with it, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor knew she would like to help others.
Faculty Fellows initiative offers a new route to retention
Many deans and program leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may feel like their array of bright young faculty members serves as a recruiting pool for other institutions.
Newly born twin stars show surprising differences
The analysis of the youngest pair of identical twin stars yet discovered has revealed surprising differences in brightness, surface temperature and possibly even the size of the two.