Tag: learning

Does anger make us sick? Are there healing powers behind optimism and humor? Do good relationships with family and friends make good medicine for the body?

An expert on the history and social impact of technology, Colleen Dunlavy is guiding 15 undergraduate students through a survey course on the subject this semester.

Students in Antonia Schleicher’s Yoruba class say her instructional CD-ROM allows them to learn a complicated language at their own pace.

With a gallery of computerized temperature, humidity and light controls, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new instructional greenhouse will have plant science students cultivating in high-tech style.

About 20 undergraduate and graduate landscape-architects-in-training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will display their handiwork April 6-20 at the UW-Madison Gallery of Design.

Beginning this fall, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will join a handful of schools where students can earn an MBA in agribusiness.

About 20 undergraduate and graduate landscape-architects-in-training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will display their handiwork April 6-20 at the UW-Madison Gallery of Design.

The hundreds of professionals involved in academic and career advising at UW-Madison have a shared mission and a full agenda for improvement through the three-year-old Council on Academic Advising (CAA).

Each semester, a 1.5 percent surcharge on each student’s tuition (currently about $20 for a full-time resident undergraduate) goes into the Student Information Technology Initiative (SITI) fund.

Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest, a CD-ROM featuring color photos and information on more than 600 species and varieties of trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers that grow in the region is now available.

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will team up to create a business plan for a technology-based business venture as part of a new campus competition.

UW-Madison Sea Grant is developing Madison JASON ’97 on behalf of the 4th- through 8th-grade Madison-area students and their teachers.

Organizers of several film series say an important function of their programs is building community, forging important ties to the external community, as well as strengthening bonds among members of a particular group.

With a $300 budget and abundant creativity, freshman engineering students have created two clever products that have clients smiling and tails wagging at the Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs (WAGS).

Recent gifts to the University of Wisconsin Foundation for the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have supported the acquisition of three important scholarly collections.

The Spencer Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to the School of Education to support graduate students in doctoral-degree programs.

The Writing Fellows Program, to debut this fall, will train excellent undergraduate writers to help peers with the often-daunting task of writing effectively.

Interaction between faculty, staff and students does not have to end in the classroom.

The School of Business has opened the hood of its M.B.A. curriculum, gone in with wrenches blazing, and come out with a sleek new power plant designed to help its graduates cruise the business autobahns of the 21st century. The new four-semester curriculum, in place by next fall, features a Business School first: traditional semester-long …