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Coe honored with UW System teaching award
Photo: Christopher Coe Psychology Professor Christopher Coe has been honored by the UW System with one of three Regents Teaching Excellence Awards. Coe teaches the popular Animal Behavior – The Primates, where students ponder how the behavior and biology of our closest animal relatives can inform understanding of the human condition.
Journalism students create strategic campaign for new company
The TV show “The Apprentice” comes to mind when students in Deb Pierce’s capstone journalism course describe their semester. Twenty-five seniors in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication had signed up to apply everything they’d learned, over four years of classes and internships, to an actual client.
Adult students honored with scholarships and awards
A total of 24 UW–Madison nontraditional and returning adult students will be honored April 24 with scholarships having a total value of $70,000.
Underwood, Mead discuss vouchers, charter schools with WisconsinEye
Looking for experts to help put Gov. Scott Walker’s most controversial educational proposals in perspective, WisconsinEye turned to two experts within UW–Madison’s School of Education. Dean Julie Underwood and Julie Mead, chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, sat down with WisconsinEye for a Newsmakers interview on Monday at the Education Building.
Evans named Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year
Wisconsin senior Ryan Evans has been named the 2013 Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Inspired by tennis legend Arthur Ashe Jr.'s commitment to education as well as athletics, the Sports Scholars Awards honors students of color who have made academic and athletic achievement a winning combination.
English Professor Levine talks Mad Men
Caroline Levine is a scholar of Victorian literature — one who’s spent plenty of hours poring over the words of Charles Dickens, George Eliot and the Brontë sisters. Yet one of the University of Wisconsin–Madison English professor’s newest publications is an essay on the popular television series Mad Men, an edgy drama centered on a Madison Avenue ad agency in the 1960s.
UW Carbone Cancer Rearchers Named to Pediatric Cancer Dream Team
Dr. Paul Sondel Madison, Wisconsin — A “dream team” of pediatric cancer researchers at the UW Carbone Cancer Center is among scientists at seven…
Federal Appeals Project offers law students hands-on experience
Beginning next fall, a new clinical offering at the University of Wisconsin Law School will provide six law students with in-depth experience in appellate advocacy.
Destination Troy: UW experts in classics, physics, and more will explore the ancient site
Beginning this year, UW scholars will launch a broad, interdisciplinary expedition to the ancient site of Troy and deploy a suite of powerful, new scientific techniques to wring more information from artifacts and the very ground of Troy itself.
Guest column from the chancellor: Online courses will extend the UW–Madison experience to more students
by UW–Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward, guest columnist for the Wisconsin State.
Women in parts of rural America face worsening mortality rates
A new University of Wisconsin–Madison analysis uncovered a startling fact: Women’s mortality rates in almost 43 percent of American counties actually got worse during the 15 years ending in 2006.
Registration open for the 32nd Annual Crazylegs Classic April 27
Plan now to participate in one of the most anticipated springtime events to take place in downtown Madison. The 32nd annual Crazylegs Classic 8K run and 2-mile walk will be held Saturday, April 27, at 10 a.m. from the Capitol Square in Madison.
From Washington to Obama, a look at the U.S. presidency
Compared to President Barack Obama, George Washington had it rough. No executive staff, no modern dental care, and the preferred method of treatment for a throat infection (which killed the nation’s first president) was removing pints of ‘tainted’ blood from the patient.