Summer’s no snooze on campus
Campus is not dormant during the summer. Though they may not quite match the hustle and bustle of the fall and spring semesters, the summer months are filled with activity at UW–Madison.
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Brock’s odyssey from biology to biological restoration
Tom and Kathie Brock are committed restorationists with deep roots at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison geneticist looks back on crowded, stellar career
Waclaw Szybalski, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of oncology, has a string of scientific achievements that could easily have merited at least one Nobel Prize, and his work has laid foundations for several Nobels won by others.
Stan Temple: A life saving threatened species
As a UW-Madison wildlife professor, Stan Temple is heir to the outsized legacy of Aldo Leopold and, until his retirement, held the chair occupied by Leopold and his intrepid successor, Joe Hickey, the wildlife biologist whose work helped put the nails in the coffin of the insecticide DDT.
Q&A: Professor examines those ‘outside the color lines’ in new book
In her new book, “Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South,” Bow examines what segregation demanded of people who did not fall into the category of black or white — including Asians, American Indians and people of mixed race.
The audience laughs and applauds as the performers on stage pull trick after trick from their sleeves: suspending a ball in midair, defying gravity, turning water into ice right before people’s eyes.
Longtime UW Police Department assistant chief to retire
Dale Burke, assistant chief of the UW Police Department (UWPD) at UW-Madison, will be retiring on July 1, 2010, after nearly 31 years with the department.
Words, wit and wild hearts: A conversation with author, professor Lorrie Moore
It’s a writer-to-writer conversation when Jacquelyn Mitchard sits down for a chat with Lorrie Moore, acclaimed fiction author and UW faculty member.
After Supreme Court clerkship, Klingele back teaching at UW Law School
One of the most memorable moments of Cecelia Klingele’s yearlong U.S. Supreme Court clerkship wasn’t crafting an opinion on a particular case or listening to an oral argument.
Economist takes on global debt crisis in classroom, book, blog
As the financial markets melted down last fall, University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Menzie Chinn says he was surprised not only by the depth of the economic downturn that set in, but also by the certainty of Monday-morning quarterbacking from observers of the government’s response to the crisis.
Street markets are this professor’s laboratory
Alfonso Morales didn’t sit in a library to do research for his graduate degrees. Instead, he worked as a vendor in Chicago’s famed Maxwell Street Market, where he saw firsthand that public markets serve as fertile ground for entrepreneurs and new businesses, gathering places for communities and an entry point into the economy and society for new arrivals to the United States.
Five questions with … Katrina Forest
Bacteriology professor Katrina Forest once considered studying architecture — and in a way she does, albeit on a very small scale. As a protein crystallographer, she studies the three-dimensional structures of bacterial proteins on an atomic level to understand how the proteins function.
Anthropologist coaxes stories, history from skeletons and their genetics
Five questions with …John Hawks
Delving into the murky metrics of financial risk
The way J. Michael Collins sees it, United States consumers aren’t necessarily less informed about financial risk than consumers from other industrialized nations. What Americans do have, however, are an abundance of ways to screw up.
Farlow celebrates 10 years with campus opera
When other 11-year-olds were out doing whatever 11-year-olds did in 1960, Bill Farlow could be found in the library in El Paso, Texas, head buried in an opera score, following along to the music as he listened to the recording. “I had watched old opera movies on television, and El Paso had a fine symphony and opera. I started learning about opera 50 years ago and it took,” says Farlow.
Artist confronts those ‘now-what’ moments
If Stephanie Jutt has her way, there will be no more starving artists who sacrifice well-being to make art.
Bringing modern roots to a traditional collection
Ken Cameron joined the faculty earlier this year as an associate professor of botany and director of the Wisconsin State Herbarium. He cites the botany department — one of a relative few remaining university botany departments, most having folded into larger biology departments — as a strong draw, along with the mix of teaching, research and administrative duties offered by his joint appointment.
Smeeding brings expertise to poverty research institute
Tim Smeeding knows something about horses, and about success. He strides to his office chalkboard, and in an animated style, picks up a piece of chalk and starts scribbling away. An equation comes into view: “Success = an idea, the money, and the horses to get it done.” Smeeding, the new director of the Institute for Research on Poverty, has lived out that equation many times.
Exhibition reveals passion for African arts
For those who believe a tidy, antiseptic workplace free of distractions improves productivity, a visit to Henry Drewal’s office in the Elvehjem Building will challenge that notion.
Pioneering ethicist makes an enduring mark
If ever there was a gnarly ethical trail to blaze, it’s the one that wends through modern biomedical science.