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Wisconsin Idea: A massive library at your fingertips
A 15-year-old home-schooled boy … College students in Illinois … The nephew of Bangladesh’s president. The people on this list have a common trait: They are all Wisconsin Idea recipients, thanks to the Digital Collections Center.
Divining modern art from ancient metalsmith techniques
To Kim Cridler, an assistant professor of art, the emotional power of objects drives her work as an artist. Through her work in metalsmith arts, Cridler seeks to recreate the feelings that are engendered by the meaningful artifacts of our past.
Trueba returns to advocate for accessibility
After a year as director of Student Accessibility Services at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., Cathy Trueba recently returned to Madison to become director of the McBurney Disability Resource Center.
Actor takes words from the page to the stage
Students in a freshman English seminar had a rare opportunity last week when American Players Theatre actor David Daniel visited their class.
Technology opens door to college readiness with UW–Madison academy
Every other Saturday during the school year, about 75 technology-savvy Madison high school students become immersed in an environment of possibilities.
Deith: From ‘hmmm’ to useable technology
Most workers are happy to follow the letter of their job descriptions, but some so enjoy their work that they find it natural to interpret that description as broadly as possible. As senior information processing consultant for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Brian Deith is in that latter category. The straightforward interpretation of his job would be plenty to fill a standard work week, as Deith is the only IT support person in a department with around 200 computers, three servers with 2.5 terabytes of combined storage, and dozens of faculty and students requiring technical support. But Deith handles those responsibilities and much more.
Prize-winning scholar to lecture on African American ideas of work, culture, liberty
Distinguished historian Thomas Holt will deliver the 2006 Merle Curti Lectures, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of History.
Undergraduates delve into big science across campus
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has become a summertime magnet for undergraduate students looking to gain hands-on research experience.
PEOPLE summer program puts 994 students on college track
While any number of teenagers are riding roller coasters, serving hamburgers or sleeping until noon this summer, 321 middle school and 673 high school students in the University of Wisconsin–Madison PEOPLE Program are focused on getting into college.
Summer class helps K-12 teachers tap into spoken word
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is offering a special class for teachers and youth services personnel, most from Madison and Milwaukee, on harnessing the might of spoken words.
Register now for UW–Madison School of the Arts at Rhinelander
Openings are still available for School of the Arts, a University of Wisconsin–Madison program in Rhinelander that offers dozens of hands-on workshops for adults in art and folk art, arts management, computer arts, movement and relaxation, music, photography, theatre and drama, and writing.
Hybrid-vehicle team places second nationally
Tired of high gas costs and poor sport utility vehicle (SUV) fuel efficiency? A group of engineering students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has spent the last three years building one of the cleanest and most fuel-efficient SUVs in North America. The principles behind the vehicle, appropriately named the "Moovada," could one day be incorporated into mass-production hybrid SUVs.
Online course to develop curriculum around process of science
"Forensic Science" is a unique online learning opportunity that will provide K-12 teachers with the techniques and tools to bring scientific investigation into their classrooms. This two-week Web-based learning opportunity will be conducted June 12-26.
State, local government officials complete Certified Public Manager program
Sixteen managers from Wisconsin state and local government and one manager from Illinois local government became Wisconsin Certified Public Managers at a ceremony at the Wisconsin State Capitol on May 5.
Candidates sought for MBA Programs
Candidates have until June 1 to apply for admission to the UW–Madison MBA in Strategic Management in the Life & Engineering Sciences or Entrepreneurial Management, designed for individuals who already have a graduate degree in a scientific field and a desire to build on that background with additional business skills.
Communities offer students chance to learn other cultures
The International Learning Community, in cooperation with University Housing, offers residence programs in German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. In 2006-07, the Arabic floor will be added.
Burrill competition to focus on security, sustainable energy issues
From sustainable energy sources for developing countries to affordable unmanned aerial security vehicles, student entrepreneurs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are creating solutions for today's most challenging problems.
Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries lecture focuses on civility
Johns Hopkins University Professor Pier Massimo Forni will give the Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries' annual lecture on Wednesday, April 19, at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.