Tag: learning

School’s out, but not for a select group of kindergarten through grade 12 teachers who are attending Earth Partnership for Schools (EPS) workshops at the UW-Madison Arboretum.

UW-Madison researchers and artists will start reaching larger audiences when the Research Channel shows four documentaries that focus on work at the university.

When he’s not figuring out how to make a hot, electrified gas power the world, Gregory Moses, engineering physics professor, sits by himself in his office and talks into video cameras. Sometimes, he also talks to puppets.

Through the Odyssey Project, students of low income learn about great works of literature, history, philosophy, art history and music.

Gov. Jim Doyle joined Chancellor John Wiley, the deans of the three health sciences schools, and other academic, hospital and community leaders May 7, at a dedication marking the completion of the Health Sciences Learning Center.

Support for humanities research and education at UW-Madison seems to meet or exceed new recommendations by the Association of American Universities.

Some students walking up Bascom Hill are not your usual 20-somethings. For example, 83-year-old Frank Loeb is enrolled in professor Hans Adler’s German topics course because he wants to explore prejudice through reading and discussion of 17th century texts.

Assorted state agencies and libraries in Madison will be peppered at the end of this semester with enhanced-accessibility Web projects conceived, designed and executed by students in the Information Architecture class in the School of Library and Information Studies at UW-Madison.

The end of every semester brings a flurry of activity to campus area libraries, coffee shops and computer labs. But in recent years, a growing number of students have also been heading to the University Housing satellite offices of the Cross-College Advising Service (CCAS) to get advice and prepare for class registration.

Uli Schamiloglu seeks to teach his students to think critically as they learn about Central Asia.

A group of persistent reformers is raising scientists’ awareness of successful approaches to science teaching and providing them with tools to implement those strategies in their own classrooms and institutions.

Thirty-eight students at UW-Madison who have devised business plans for products – ranging from lighted ice in hockey rinks to alternative energy systems – will face off in the G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition on Friday, April 23.

To help graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, academic staff and faculty develop teaching skills that build upon their research skills, UW-Madison is launching a certificate that recognizes their ability to integrate research, teaching and learning.

Faculty, instructional staff and teaching assistants can find help and support for their teaching at a new Web site, Teaching and Learning Excellence@UW-Madison, that is a gateway to information on teaching — everything from nuts and bolts to pedagogic philosophies.

Students, faculty and staff from UW-Madison who traveled together by bus, following the route of the civil rights movement from Madison to Selma, Ala., are hosting a presentation and fund-raising event on Friday, April 16.

UW-Madison will give high school students and teachers from across the state a sample from the more than 60 languages taught on campus at special event on Tuesday, April 13.