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The Science of Cheese
UW-Madison cheese researcher Carol Chen explains the physics, chemistry and biology of cheese on Sicentific American’s Science Talk podcast. Read More
Mildred Fish-Harnack: Back To Berlin
WISC-TV has published on its Web site a collection of stories, video and slide shows about Mildred Fish-Harnack, a UW–Madison graduate who was a major force in the underground resistance to the Nazis, and ultimately executed on the direct orders of Adolph Hitler. Read More
Alumni give $85 million to name Wisconsin School of Business
The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has received an unprecedented gift totaling $85 million from a small group of alumni who have formed the "Wisconsin Naming Partnership" to support the school's mission. Read More
Spoken word scholars aim to transform campus
They express themselves and how they feel about the world around them through a powerful mechanism: words. And now the students who have embraced urban art, including “spoken word,” are coming together on campus, playing a leadership role in a national movement and sharing their craft with others. Read More
Richard Brown: Helping problem drinkers scale back or quit
Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles, which opened at 21 primary care clinics around the state this past spring and summer, is simple and effective in early detection of at-risk or harmful drinking or drug use, numerous studies show. Read More
Getting in: The not-so-secret admissions process
As any high school senior can attest, the college search process is complicated these days. Woven among the entrance exams and the application forms and the deadlines are myths about who gets in and who doesn’t—and why. On Wisconsin, the university’s alumni magazine, talks to the people who make those decisions every day and learns that numbers are only part of the equation. Read More
Jordan Gerth: Souping up state weather forecasts
Since arriving at UW–Madison from Kenosha in 2005 as a freshman, the atmospheric and oceanic sciences major has taken a lead role in a project that is making campus weather research tools available to frontline forecasters in Wisconsin’s National Weather Service (NWS) regional offices. Read More
Veterinary professor improves Wisconsin dairy industry
Ken Nordlund still remembers the skeptical face at the back of the room as he and his colleagues introduced the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine's new Transition Cow Index (TCI) to dairy farmers from around the state. Read More
Today’s students will compete in globally connected market (Captiol Region Business Journal)
An opinion piece from Frances Shuter Taylor, a former Executive Vice President of Bank of America and CEO of BA Asia, Ltd. Read More