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Slide show: A far-from-trivial competition
Beginning Monday, May 5, the results of an exciting week in April — when a large production crew from “Jeopardy!” arrived on campus — will begin airing on TV screens across the country.
Lowly Icelandic midges reveal ecosystem’s tipping points
A UW–Madison zoologist describes in the journal Nature an ecosystem population dynamics model built on the flies of Iceland’s Lake Myvatn, showing how even slight human-induced changes can irreversibly alter the balance of nature.
Wisconsin artists featured at new children’s hospital
If you chance to walk through the halls of the months-old American Family Children’s Hospital, try not to blink. There is so much to see: Every stretch of hallway is bursting with artistic touches — sculpture, watercolor paintings and colorful alphabet quilts.
Slide show: Revolution’s Wallpaper
Jim Huberty, who was a political science student at the University of Wisconsin during the Vietnam War era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, is displaying select pieces of his collection of protest publicity posters through March 11 in an exhibit, “Revolution’s Wallpaper,” in the Class of 1925 Gallery at Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St., on the UW–Madison campus.
Moments in time: 2007 photographers’ choice
In and out of the classroom, from the research lab to the athletic field, through all four seasons — the staff photographers in University Communications have captured the scenes that defined this energetic public research university during 2007. From thousands of photographs made this year, they have selected these as favorite moments in time at UW–Madison. After you play this multimedia slide show, learn more by clicking on “captions” in the bottom bar and viewing the photos one by one.
Beowulf’s world comes to life in new book
A new Hollywood film opening in theaters Friday, Nov. 16, employs special effects wizardry to tell the story of Beowulf, but a just-released illustrated edition of the epic tale from a UW–Madison English professor comes much closer to showing us the world where the action takes place.
Fight to save celebrated prairie continues
Students from UW–Madison’s general ecology class have joined Arboretum researchers and land managers in an ambitious five-year plan to subdue the spread of invasive reed canary grass in the UW Arboretum’s Greene Prairie.
Recent sightings: New Children’s Hospital
David Berry, vice president of the American Family Children’s Hospital, shows a prairie-themed inpatient room as he leads a media tour of the…