Category State & Global
Science and law connect in campus collaboration
July 25, 2012Have you ever wondered how scientists decide which problems to work on or what inventions to develop?
UW faculty, students aid African conservation efforts
July 24, 2012Faculty and students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison will lend their expertise to conservation efforts in central Africa as the first university member of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership.
Two UW–Madison researchers build ties with Indonesia
July 23, 2012It took a trip halfway around the world to bring two University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists together.
Corporate open house: For industry, UW–Madison is ‘one-stop shopping’
July 19, 2012On July 12, representatives from more than 40 companies in industries ranging from manufacturing and biotech to construction and food production attended the first-annual UW–Madison corporate open house.
Celebrate UW–Madison and help Milwaukee students at the Wisconsin State Fair
July 17, 2012UW–Madison has great traditions like the colorful Memorial Union Terrace Chairs, the spirit of the Badger Band, and life changing contributions in science and research. We celebrate championship athletic teams and even championship cheese makers. Perhaps the best UW–Madison tradition is the spirit of giving back to our Wisconsin community. Help celebrate all of these traditions by being a part of UW–Madison Day at the Wisconsin State Fair, August 8, 2012.
School of the Arts has large financial impact on Northwoods
July 14, 2012When UW–Madison School of the Arts in Rhinelander opens for business Sunday, July 22, some 300 students, faculty and artists will descend on the Hodag city, a fact not lost on Rhinelander Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Lara Reed.
Four UW–Madison students attending prestigious Nobel conference
July 2, 2012Four UW–Madison students will meet with more than 30 Nobel laureates and 580 young researchers from around the world July 1-6 at the 62nd annual…
Law that radically changed UW signed 150 years ago
June 29, 2012The 150th anniversary of a law that radically changed the mission of the University of Wisconsin and gave rise to the Wisconsin Idea is Monday, July 2. On that date in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which established the nation’s land grant universities and broadened the UW’s academic scope beyond the liberal arts.
Shelter cats benefit from vet’s long, close web of human relationships
June 27, 2012Karen Moriello, a clinical professor at the UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, has earned a devoted following among people who care for cats in animal shelters.
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center marks first issued patent
June 18, 2012The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is marking the arrival of summer with a milestone: the first patent issued on the center's technology.
Probe seeking life on Saturn’s moon earns student team a spot at international space conference
June 13, 2012Somewhere beneath as much as 30 miles of ice on the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, extraterrestrial life could be waiting to be discovered under a subglacial ocean. And a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering mechanics and astronautics students want to be the people who find it. For their senior design course, Alex Gonring, Capri Pearson, Samantha Robinson, Jake Rohrig and Tyler Van Fossen designed a mission that would take a probe from Earth to deep below Enceladus’ icy surface, where an array of science instruments would look for carbon-based life.
In Shanghai, UW–Madison inaugurates first overseas office
June 11, 2012The UW–Madison Shanghai Innovation Office, which will serve as a focal point for the university’s growing engagement in China and across East Asia, has officially opened.
Aging at home: New project starts with community assets, not needs
June 8, 2012Students tend to fret when they are "invited" to the principal's office, and last April Tayler Nelson was no exception.
China visit aims to deepen Wisconsin’s engagement
June 7, 2012University of Wisconsin–Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward is leading a Wisconsin delegation to China, where he will inaugurate UW–Madison's first overseas outpost and participate in events aimed at deepening engagement with Chinese partners.
Helping China produce more milk will boost U.S. dairy exports to China, experts say
June 7, 2012As China expands its domestic milk production, it will buy more milk products from the United States.
Barrier-free technology coming of age in UW Trace Center project
June 5, 2012Despite the rapid increase in access to and use of the Internet, barriers still exist for a wide variety of users: people with disabilities, people who are aging, and people who have literacy challenges.
Online courses offer foreign policy training for military leaders
June 1, 2012A series of online courses geared for members of the military to learn more about foreign policy and international relations is testing the geographic limits of one of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's guiding principles.
School of Education partners with Stockholm University
May 15, 2012Graduate students in the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education have a new opportunity to bring a global perspective into their work as they seek to tackle some of the toughest issues in education.
UW-Madison to receive class gift honoring the Wisconsin Idea
May 7, 2012UW-Madison's long tradition of service to the state is being celebrated with a new plaque honoring the Wisconsin Idea, a gift from the Class of 2012 that will be dedicated by class officers and university officials on Wednesday, May 9.
Science night fosters grade-schoolers’ natural curiosity
April 27, 2012A delighted murmur – a hybrid of “Wow!” and “Whoa!” -- arises as an ultraviolet light illuminates the invisible traces of chemicals on a chromatography paper, and Dave Stevenson knows he’s done his job at Family Science Night at Emerson School on Madison’s east side. Stevenson, a microbiologist at the federal Dairy Forage Research Center on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, gives an outline of chromatography for 22 students in first through fifth grades.