As a history-making race for the White House enters its final hours, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students are busy crafting pre-election coverage and preparing to cover Election Day with a campus bent.
Business magazine Kiplinger’s Personal Finance ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison No. 14 in a national ranking of the best values in American public universities.
Working on a current scientific issue with cutting-edge technology is unusual for an undergraduate. But not for the Wisconsin iGEM team, a group of 11 University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates researching biofuels for a synthetic biology competition.
Aspiring fresh market vegetable growers can learn the fundamentals of the business from veteran growers and other experts at the 2009 Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, Jan. 16-18, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The fall leaves may make the University of Wisconsin-Madison look different, but it’s the renowned faculty on campus that really offer opportunities to see things differently.
Are you having problems with a specific course? Do you have a hard time focusing on schoolwork and studying for exams? Do you have the GUTS to get some guidance?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of the Golden Key International Honour Society received Gold chapter standing for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Deadlines are approaching for UW-Madison students to sign up for Orphanage Outreach, a program that offers semester abroad and alternative break opportunities.
A culture of neglect and, at some age levels, outright social ostracism, is derailing a generation of students, especially girls, deemed the very best in mathematics, according to a new study.
If your career or career plans involve greenhouses, landscaping, garden centers and related industries, you might want to consider a set of new continuing education classes offered through the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Service-learning courses bridge the gap between academia and the “real world” by providing students an opportunity to work at locations within the Madison community where their experiences relate to course material.
Global Studies and the Offices of the Dean of Students have launched the second WI-Global Forum.
In spring 2008, a class of undergraduate and graduate engineering students studied a section of Wingra Marsh to learn more about the hydroecologic effects of the massive stormwater inflow. “Stormwater management infrastructure throughout the Arboretum is failing due to age and increased flows of runoff from the surrounding watershed,” says David Liebl, a UW-Madison engineering professional development faculty associate who chairs the Arboretum stormwater committee.
The Centro Hispano tutoring program will have an informational booth in library mall from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. this Thursday for interested UW-Madison students. There will also be tutor training and sign-up for the Schools of Hope tutoring program Thursday evening in the Union from 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m. The programs give students of all educational backgrounds the chance to tutor pre-school to high school level children.
As the southern pine beetle moves through the forest boring tunnels inside the bark of trees, it brings with it both a helper and a competitor. The helper is a fungus that the insect plants inside the tunnels as food for its young. But also riding along is a tiny, hitchhiking mite, which likewise carries a fungus for feeding its own larvae.
A new magazine produced by and featuring UW-Madison students targets all Badgers.
The University of Wisconsin Credit Union has stepped forward to support the “Great people. Great place.” initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
U.S. Rep. David Obey, chair of the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, will discuss economic injustice and the gap between rich and poor Americans in the annual Kastenmeier Lecture on Monday, Oct. 13, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
Jumpstart, the University of Wisconsin-Madison program that pairs university students with preschool children to build school readiness skills, is sponsoring several “Read for the Record” events on Thursday, Oct. 2.
With a photograph that embodies the unexpected – and sometimes breathtaking – outcomes of science, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Jenna Eun has won second place in the 2008 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Science magazine.