State fair Badgers raise money, school supplies for MPS
Wisconsinites and UW alums gave time, money and school supplies to support Milwaukee-area school children last Wednesday during UW-Madison Day at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Mentored by UW education faculty, underrepresented students exhibit research
Students from UW-Madison’s Summer Education Research Program (SERP) presented their research during a poster session in the Education Building’s Morgridge Commons on Tuesday afternoon.
UW students examine health issues on U.N. study tour
A group of University of Wisconsin–Madison students traveled to New York City for a week in June to visit the United Nations headquarters and, through the lens of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), examine key issues that affect health – poverty, hunger, education, gender, child and maternal care, disease, and environment.
PEOPLE high school students celebrate completing pre-college program
High school scholars in UW-Madison’s PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) and incoming PEOPLE college freshmen from across Wisconsin will be feted for their accomplishments at the program’s annual recognition banquet Friday, Aug. 2.
Two new grants help Odyssey Project expand
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Odyssey Project has received two major grants that will support a new program, “Odyssey Bridges,” aimed at providing expanded services to help more low income adults complete college degrees.
Archeologists return to mysterious Aztalan site in Jefferson County
Research groups from three Midwestern universities are digging yet again at Aztalan, a state park near Lake Mills, Wis., hoping to unravel the history of a walled outpost that was once thought to be related to the Aztec culture in Mexico.
Bass professor Richard Davis receives nation’s highest jazz honor
Richard Davis can add one more leaf to his many laurels. On Thursday, June 27, the National Endowment for the Arts named Davis, a professor of bass, jazz history, and combo improvisation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of four 2014 NEA Jazz Masters, considered one of the highest honors in jazz.
Professional degree a new tool for conservation leaders
In the face of unprecedented environmental challenges that demand novel solutions, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon begin accepting applications for a model graduate degree program to train tomorrow’s conservation leaders.
Brick-and-mortar teaching meets high-tech innovation: Sparks fly
For fifteen years, the UW Teaching and Learning Symposium has been the go-to place for UW instructors to share their findings and learn new teaching strategies.
Online + face-to-face = blended learning
Blended learning gets talked about a lot in today’s educational circles. But what is it? And why is everyone talking about it?
UW service-learning project wins United Nations award
An award from the United Nations is honoring the work of Araceli Alonso, a senior lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies and a faculty associate at the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Go Big Read selects ‘A Tale for the Time Being’ for its 5th year
“A Tale for the Time Being,” a new novel from critically acclaimed and best-selling author Ruth Ozeki, is the selection for the fifth year of Go Big Read, UW-Madison’s common-reading program.
IT Career Academy diversifies the IT workforce
Latoria Isom, a recently hired IS Technical Support Technician at UW-Madison’s Administrative Information Management Systems (AIMS), loves her job of installing and repairing computers for faculty and staff throughout campus. “There’s always something new to learn,” she says. “I don’t like to be bored and it’s never the same thing.”
UW to offer new virtual internships to enhance women’s interest in engineering
The College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer for the first time a course entirely based on digital learning simulations in the fall of 2013.
UW physicist works with young Rube Goldbergs at Madison elementary school
The rules are simple, explains Mike Randall, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist, who is leading the Rube Goldberg lab tonight at Emerson School in Madison. “Make a contraption that starts by dropping a marble and ends by ringing a bell.”
New living, learning community to welcome biology students
To help bio newbies get off to the right start, as many as 130 students will begin 2014 in BioHouse, the university’s 10th residential learning community.
Five Questions with Marie-Louise Mares
Growing up in Australia, Marie-Louise Mares didn’t have a television. Even then, she still got the occasional glimpse of “Sesame Street.”
UW analysis shows learning impact of ‘Sesame Street’ around the world
According to a soon-to-be published meta-analysis conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, watching international co-productions of “Sesame Street” has a positive effect on children’s learning and is an “enduring example of a scalable and effective early childhood educational intervention.”
Undergraduate Symposium to showcase exceptional students, honor mentors
The 15th Annual Undergraduate Symposium, an event that highlights the creativity, achievements and research that UW-Madison’s undergraduate students have accomplished with the personal involvement of their faculty and staff mentors, will be held Thursday, April 18, at Union South.
Recent sightings: Buzz talk
Internationally recognized artist and barber Faisal Abdu’Allah talks about his work while cutting the hair of volunteer Alison Jones-Chaim during a live salon held in the Chazen Museum of Art lobby at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April 4, 2013. An audience of nearly 75 people asked frequent questions as they witnessed the event. Abdu’Allah …