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Badger fans travel with WAA to the Champs Sports Bowl

December 7, 2009

The Wisconsin Badgers are headed to the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday, Dec. 29, and loyal fans will follow the team as part of the official Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) bowl tour.

Event celebrates Park Street businesses, culture

December 4, 2009

Celebrate the Park Street corridor on Wednesday, Dec. 9, as part of the first-ever "Celebrate Park Street" event from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Space Place in Villager Mall, 2300 S. Park St.

40th Christmas chemistry lecture to air on public TV stations

December 3, 2009

This holiday season brings the 40th incarnation of University of Wisconsin–Madison chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri's wildly popular Christmas lecture, "Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri."

Rocks, crystals, fossils headline sale at Geology Museum

December 2, 2009

Unique gifts for people fascinated by the beauty of nature will be on sale at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Geology Museum for one day only, Friday, Dec. 4.

UW Hospital’s HIV clinic brings AIDS Memorial Quilt to Madison

December 1, 2009

Twenty-one panels, each one 144 feet square. Each of the 21 panels tells eight human stories, in colorful thread, of the lives of loved ones…

VIP launches food drive to support Second Harvest Foodbank

November 30, 2009

Visitor & Information Programs (VIP) will be joining Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin in an effort to raise nonperishable food items for families in need.

UW-Madison furlough day set for Nov. 27

November 24, 2009

The University of Wisconsin–Madison will close on Thursday, Nov. 26, for the Thanksgiving holiday and on Friday, Nov. 27, as a mandated furlough day for most of its employees.

New UW–Madison ‘Ants and Agriculture’ exhibit opens

November 24, 2009

University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists are putting the finishing touches on a new "Ants and Agriculture" display in Microbe Place, an outreach facility in the lobby of the Microbial Sciences Building.

UW-Madison exposition to feature high-tech mapping

November 16, 2009

Experts from around Wisconsin will show off the latest in technologies and projects that use high-tech mapping tools called geographic information systems (GIS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Friday, Nov. 20.

UW exposition to feature high-tech mapping

November 16, 2009

Experts from around Wisconsin will show off the latest in technologies and projects that use high-tech mapping tools called geographic information systems (GIS) at the…

Cycling team, city of Madison to host Collegiate Cycling Nationals

November 13, 2009

The National Collegiate Cycling Association (NCCA) announced that the cycling team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison won the bid to host the 2010 and 2011 Collegiate Road National Championship races.

UW-Madison computer team heads to world finals for ninth straight year

November 11, 2009

A computer team from the University of Wisconsin–Madison got official notification on Nov. 10 that it will be heading to Harbin, China, for the world championship in February.

Events planned for Global Entrepreneurship Week

November 11, 2009

The University of Wisconsin–Madison — along with more than 1,000 organizations worldwide — will mark Global Entrepreneurship Week during the week of Nov. 15.

New course shows arts students how to become entrepreneurs

November 11, 2009

Entrepreneurship programs at UW–Madison are supporting innovative thinking and actions. The Wiscontrepreneur program, the Student Venture Seed Grant Program, programs at the Wisconsin School of Business, and other programs and initiatives, recently garnered the university recognition as one of the nation’s top 25 campuses for entrepreneurship.

WYOU donates tapes of LGBT show to Memorial Library

November 11, 2009

The University of Wisconsin–Madison's Memorial Library will accept a gift of 800 videotapes from WYOU Community Television during a reception on Friday, Nov. 13.

Bringing ‘bioneers’ to Wisconsin

November 6, 2009

Bioneers, a leading-edge environmental movement that uses solutions inspired by nature and human ingenuity to support sustainable lifestyles and communities, will be introduced to Wisconsin at a Nov. 13-14 conference in Fitchburg.

More than 700 Wisconsin students to attend World Languages Day

November 5, 2009

For some of Laura Koebel's students at Plymouth High School, "ethnic" food means a Hawaiian pizza. So an excursion to an East African restaurant such as Buraka, on State Street, is the perfect way to cap off their trip to World Languages Day.

Portraits reveal stories behind Vietnam veteran experiences

November 5, 2009

The faces could be easily forgotten — just middle-aged folks showing what time and gravity can do to hairlines and smooth cheeks. But these faces reveal much more. These are faces of Vietnam veterans from Wisconsin. Defiant, somber, proud, their experiences in the war can be read in their connection with the camera, daring us to look away.

‘On, Wisconsin!’ anniversary events to continue

November 5, 2009

It wouldn’t be an occasion without cake, song, proclamations and merriment, and two events continuing the “On, Wisconsin!” anniversary celebrations will satisfy those requirements as the Badger Band and UW–Madison Concert Choir honor the song.