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Professor, students take on death row appeal
At Holman Correctional Facility, just north of the Florida panhandle in Atmore, Ala., Jeffrey Day Rieber waits to die - and some Madison lawyers, UW–Madison law students and a law professor are laboring to prevent his death.
American Family endows scholarships at Business School
American Family Insurance has created an endowed scholarship fund for students majoring in insurance-related disciplines at the School of Business.
Chancellor approves plan to add 32 faculty
Twelve faculty hiring proposals spanning the biological, physical and social sciences and humanities have been approved by Chancellor David Ward in the first round of the Sesquicentennial Hires program.
List of proposals accepted
Twelve faculty hiring proposals spanning the biological, physical and social sciences and humanities have been approved by Chancellor David Ward in the first round of the Sesquicentennial Hires program.
$12 million raised to support distinguished graduate fellowships
Individuals and companies donated more than $12 million this past year to a new program, Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowships, that will help UW–Madison gain a significant advantage in the heated competition for the nation's best and brightest graduate students.
Cookbook advice: Eat walnuts, live longer!
America's favorite nut can settle into our tummies in many different forms thanks to UW–Madison English professors and administrators Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden.
Stress reduction course draws harried students
For the past 20 years, Physical Education 134 - Relaxation Technique and Exercise has been a top draw in the physical education department, filling so quickly that freshmen and sophomores have difficulty getting in.
Back in the classroom
Scholars bridge the divide between campus and the world in many ways, and economist John Karl Scholz made the leap through a leave, spending nearly two years in the capital of the nation - and the capital of his specialty.
Community service fellowships available to undergraduates
Undergraduate students, faculty and staff have a new opportunity to forge community service partnerships with area nonprofit and government agencies through the university's Morgridge Center for Public Service.
Monograph explores the role of scholarship and teaching
The Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences (CELS), a UW–Madison-based national alliance of professional biology societies, is taking aim at undergraduate biology education.
ROSATED GUINEA HEN
Roasted Guinea Hen recipe
The wisdom behind WISE
A program at Elizabeth Waters Hall is countering a national trend that has seen more than half of all young women who begin pursuing a career in science or engineering change majors in the first two years.
UW students laud teacher education reform
As a new curriculum in the School of Education's secondary teacher education nears its two-year anniversary, payoffs are proceeding from a decision made long ago by UW–Madison planners: To transform, instead of tinker.
Student-led fusion project wows scientific community
A unique student-staffed fusion project in UW–Madison's College of Engineering is generating excitement in the physics community.
Religious studies offers undergrad certificate
A new certificate for undergraduate students interested in the Religious Studies Program at the UW–Madison caps a complete renovation of the program started three years ago.
Cloak and dagger stuff
Students learn staged swashbuckling from a master of fake fighting We might be on the deck of a pirate galleon as the…
Engineering creates professional masters program
A new World Wide Web-based master's degree created by College of Engineering is designed to help professionals advance their careers without interrupting them.
First business course offered on Internet
The School of Business is launching its first Internet course, a class on management fundamentals.
‘The Wisconsin boys’
They are some of Peru's most important government and legal officials. And they call themselves the Wisconsin Boys.
New web site focuses on parenthood
A new UW–Madison Web site examines the fundamental nature of the parent-child relationship in society.