Tag: learning

Engineering students from UW-Madison will be in the thick of a national college competition to turn a sport utility vehicle into a leaner, “greener” machine.

Nick Cave, renowned Chicago clothing designer and visual artist, will present a public slide lecture, ” ‘Sound Suits’ and ‘Lucky Charms’: The Art of Nick Cave” Thursday, Sept. 23, at 5:30 p.m. in L140 Elvehjem. He is serving a semester-long residency sponsored by the Arts Institute.

Ford Motor Company will grant nearly $2.1 million over five years for education and research programs in the College of Engineering and the School of Business.

A national consortium will locate a unique language-teaching institute at UW-Madison beginning in summer 2000. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies will host the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute for five years initially, with the goal being to keep the institute at UW-Madison permanently.

Tapping into diverse biological landscape of UW-Madison is now far easier for the undergraduate as the first broad-based, intercollege biology major in the history of the university debuts this semester.

A new grant called Web Works is available to UW-Madison faculty and instructional staff who wish to incorporate instructional technology more fully into their curriculum.

The search to hire a new dean of students at the university is progressing. The 15-member search and screen committee formed this summer by Chancellor David Ward is accepting applications and nominations for the position until Friday, Oct. 1.

A survey of UW-Madison students finds a substantial increase in computer ownership, especially among undergraduates.

Biomedical engineering, a new department in the College of Engineering beginning this fall, might be the university’s most diverse department.

In Walter Goodman’s laboratory, Manduca sexta, a.k.a. the tobacco hornworm caterpillar, lives in the limelight. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the caterpillar grows ever larger — and ever more interesting — under the steady, unblinking eye of a video camera.

A new web database maintained by the Wisconsin State Herbarium catalogs more than 2,300 native and naturalized Wisconsin plant species.

University business students will manage their own real estate investment portfolio as part of the nationâs first graduate program specializing in the analysis of real estate securities.

The University Lectures Committee is seeking applications from campus groups that need financing for public lectures to be held during the 1999-2000 academic year.

A twilight tour for plant lovers will be held at the Hancock Agricultural Research Station Monday, Aug. 2.

Food science students have earned a finalist spot in a national competition by inventing a healthy taste treat, “smoothie pies.”

The Division of Information Technology announces the release of UW-MadMail to campus on July 1. UW-MadMail is a new server-based e-mail system, unique because it provides e-mail storage on a dedicated server and backup of e-mail.

‘The Declaration of Independence,’ to debut Saturday, July 3, at 7 p.m. on the History Channel, will feature Professor of Communication Arts Stephen Lucas.

A new, first-of-its-kind national resource center devoted to the teaching of African languages will open this fall on campus.

Two dozen engineers began a new degree program last week, and their classrooms could be an office cafeteria, a basement den or even an airport lobby.

Thomas Dinkins, a spring 1999 graduate of Rufus King High School in Milwaukee, has been selected as the first recipient of a new scholarship established by Cargill, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.