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Earth Day events honor birth of environmentalism
For some of us it seems like just yesterday, but Earth Day turns 40 this year. The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970. Some 20 million people participated in environmental teach-ins across the United States. The event’s founder, U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, took a page from the antiwar movement to educate people about the environment and to put the cause on the national agenda.
All-Campus Party 2010 celebrates end of school year
All-Campus Party (ACP) 2010, hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Student Board (WASB), will take place April 17-23 and, as always, will feature a variety of cost-free, alcohol-alternative events for University of Wisconsin–Madison students, faculty and staff.
Stem cell symposium to focus on hurdles in stem cell therapy development
The fifth annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium, called "The Road to Stem Cell Applications: Bioprocessing, Safety and Preclinical Evaluation," will be held on Wednesday, April 21 just outside of Madison.
Astronaut, in Madison visit, to discuss NASA’s changing plans
Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, one of the last people to walk on the moon, will present a forceful case for manned space exploration in a talk at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Monday, April 19.
Symposium honors long-time development and evolution researcher
The biologists gathering on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus this Thursday, April 15, have one thing in common beyond their scientific interests in evolution and animal development.
Transportation Services to hold forums
Facing the prospect of a budget deficit, UW Transportation Services is evaluating program changes that will affect all members of the campus community
Wisconsin’s environment inspires Earth Day Concert
Can we hear ecology? Sixteen musicians - including four composers - from the University of Wisconsin–Madison believe we can.
Former governor discusses using technology to transform global disaster relief at WARF Gilson Event
Recent disasters in Haiti and Chile have shown once again that the rapid delivery of needed relief to people in crisis often means the difference between life and death.
Varsity Band throws party for ‘On, Wisconsin!’
The annual Varsity Band Concert returns to the Kohl Center Thursday-Saturday, April 15-17, with all its usual pyrotechnics, thunder and brass. This year's performance brings much more, however.
LGBT Campus Center hosts Out and About Month in April
The University of Wisconsin–Madison LGBT Campus Center is sponsoring Out and About Month in April. This year’s theme is intersectionality,…
More than 500 students to present at Undergraduate Symposium
With a larger sampling from the humanities combined with the traditional caliber of scientific research, the 400 or so projects at the 12th annual Undergraduate Symposium have little in common but the gifted students behind them.
Berquam: Vote in ASM elections
University of Wisconsin–Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam is encouraging all students to take a moment this week to participate in shared governance by voting in the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) spring elections.
Five to receive Distinguished Alumni Award honors
The Wisconsin Alumni Association is honoring five University of Wisconsin–Madison graduates next week with the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards.
Public tickets for Dalai Lama event available April 17
The public is invited to attend a dialogue between His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Richard J. Davidson, director of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The conversation, "Investigating Healthy Minds," will take place at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, May 16, in the Overture Center's Capitol Theater.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month continues
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Throughout this month, the Dane County Community is coming together to learn about sexual violence while supporting and celebrating survivors.
Taylor Lecture features former Dallas mayor
While the public relations business took a hit in the recent economic recession along with many other industries, the surge in social networking and new technology gives public relations professionals more opportunities than ever to make their messages resonate.
Film Festival volunteers keep reels spinning
A few years ago, UW–Madison grants and contracts specialist Aaron Crandall was sitting in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre during a screening at the Wisconsin Film Festival when he and the other volunteers realized it’d been awhile since they’d heard from the projectionist.
‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ chosen for Go Big Read program
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has selected "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot as the book for the second year of Go Big Read, the university's common reading program.
From spinning atoms to blazing stars, Science Expeditions covers all bases
If there is any way to take in the full depth and breadth of the science being practiced and developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the eighth annual Science Expeditions celebration is the way to do it.