New faculty focus: New chemists join UW
The Chemistry Department has welcomed new faculty members with specialties ranging from quantum chemistry to STEM education. Read Q & A’s with them in this New Faculty Focus.
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Sifting and winnowing turns 125: The tumultuous story of three little words
Sifting and winnowing has a special meaning at UW–Madison. Those words were first shared on Sept. 18, 1894, by the UW Board of Regents in defense of a professor named Richard Ely. How did an agricultural phrase come to symbolize academic freedom?
New Faculty Focus: Megan Doherty Bea
Q&A Megan Doherty Bea, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science Hometown: Media, Pennsylvania Educational/professional background: I’m a sociologist by training and I study household finance and economic well-being. Previous position: PhD Candidate at Cornell University How did you get into your field of research? While working at an economic think tank after college, I realized …
UW-Madison rises in 2019 world university rankings
The Center for World University Rankings uses seven indicators to rank the world’s universities without relying on surveys and university data submissions.
Cora Marrett to lead fall Wisconsin Idea course, public lecture series
The distinguished sociologist and alumna will lead the fourth offering of the course, which is designed for undergraduate students and also open to the public.
Cap Times Idea Fest returns to campus Sept. 13-14
Eric Holder will discuss gerrymandering, WARF’s Erik Iverson will lead a panel on “How Does Madison Not Become Seattle?” and political scientist Kathy Cramer will highlight the Local Voices Network, among other events.
By dropping, throwing smart phones, students key into a 21st century approach to physics
In Professor Duncan Carlsmith’s introductory physics classroom, smartphones are dropped, thrown and strapped to pendulums, and the data from their sensors is used to teach principles of physics.
Hip-hop choreographer Duane Lee Holland Jr. to join Dance Department faculty
“We hope with this addition to the faculty we will craft deep, integrative, and long lasting changes in the way in which diversity is conceived and implemented in our curriculum,” said department chair Kate Corby. “Duane’s versatility as a teacher and artist, along with his warm and professional engagement with students, will be a great benefit.”
June 1 jazz concert to celebrate John Schaffer, former School of Music director
In recognition of his contributions to music in Madison, particularly toward reinvigorating the local jazz scene, the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium’s Jazz Junction Benefit Concert on June 1 will this year honor Schaffer upon his retirement.
Kohl donates $10M to support La Follette School’s outreach, teaching and research
Kohl’s donation, the Kohl Initiative, focuses on three priorities that will expand the School’s public outreach mission, advance the training of future public leaders and support influential research by faculty and students. It is the largest donation in La Follette School history.
4 faculty chosen for next cohort of Diversity Liaison Project
Four faculty members have been chosen for the Diversity Liaison Project, which provides a hands-on approach to offering more opportunities for campus leaders to actively engage with matters of diversity, equity and inclusion and to implement best practices in the classroom and beyond.
Third round of cluster hires announced
Cluster hires foster collaborative research, education and outreach by creating new interdisciplinary areas of knowledge that cross the boundaries of existing academic departments.
Chair to honor civil rights trailblazer James E. Jones Jr.
“Professor Jones was a towering figure here at the Law School. The chair bearing his name will continue his memory and legacy here forever,” says Law School Dean Margaret Raymond.
Student to student: Recognizing women in leadership at UW
With International Women’s Day coming March 8, now’s the time to celebrate the women who have made an impact on our lives, as well as on our campus community.
Steve Miller, Tom Brock to receive honorary degrees
This year’s recipients of honorary degrees from UW–Madison are both rock stars — one literally, the other in microbiology. The honorees are Steve Miller, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and Thomas Brock, who helped usher in modern molecular biology.
UW-Madison students make discoveries, explore Italy in archaeological expedition
Two seniors traveled to the ancient city of Agrigento on the south coast of Sicily this past summer, to develop a more accurate historical timeline.
Professor takes on climate change by promoting science literacy through music, art, comics
A UW-Madison geoscience professor has come up with new ways to teach science to non-science undergraduate students, in hopes of awakening their “inner scientists.”
Brady or Rodgers: UW math professor to tell national TV audience who’s greater
Sometimes math professors find themselves in surprising places. Look for UW–Madison’s Jordan Ellenberg in the national broadcast of the Nov. 4 match-up between the Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots on Sunday Night Football.
New Faculty Focus: Jason Peters
Pharmacy researcher faces the gravity of upcoming antibiotic resistance crisis — we will soon be out of weapons to fight resistant bacterial pathogens — and focuses on identifying new weaknesses in these pathogens that can be exploited by drugs.
Student to student: 7 UW-inspired costumes to wear this Halloween
If you have still yet to come up with a Halloween outfit and want to have the coolest costume on campus, grab your hot glue gun, sewing needle and tape and try out some of these costume ideas that are literally inspired by UW-Madison.