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Saint Judy premiere to feature Q&A with director, a UW grad
“It is a big Badger production,” says director Sean Hanish. “I’m excited to come to Madison to discuss the film. Read More
Statement from Chancellor Blank on proposed capital budget
"These critical investments in our campus will help make sure we can continue to provide a world-class education for our students," Blank says. Read More
Badger Ready gives adult students a pathway to a UW–Madison degree
Last fall, UW–Madison welcomed the first students served by the Badger Ready program, which helps students resuming their college education after a significant break. Read More
THOR wrangles complex microbiomes into a model for improving them
A growing understanding of microbial communities and their influence on human health or crop productivity has led to the dream of changing these communities to produce benefits. New research addresses this head-on. Read More
Keynote for Showcase will focus on ‘capacity for change’
The 20th annual Showcase, to be held April 17 at Union South, will feature keynote speaker Elizabeth “Liz” Menzer of the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence. Showcase celebrates process and program improvements, innovations, and best practices on campus. Read More
Initiative will transform administrative processes
The University of Wisconsin System and UW–Madison are launching an initiative to upgrade and modernize core administrative processes that support an increasingly complex teaching and research environment. All members of the UW–Madison community will have opportunities to participate and contribute to the multi-year initiative. Read More
Student to student: Recognizing women in leadership at UW
With International Women’s Day coming March 8, now's the time to celebrate the women who have made an impact on our lives, as well as on our campus community. Read More
Get Social: By the light of the moon
From ice cream on a snowy terrace to a moon over Bascom, campus is showing off its winter beauty this week. Read More
Plan to halve U.S. child poverty in 10 years presented by UW–Madison professor
Childhood poverty could be reduced by half in 10 years, according to a report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Timothy M. Smeeding, a UW–Madison professor of public affairs and economics, served on the committee that wrote the report. Read More
Outstanding Women of Color honored
The five women were chosen for their advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged populations; scholarly research on race, ethnicity and indigeneity; and community building. Read More
Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from plants
With a few genetic tweaks, a type of soil bacteria with an appetite for hydrocarbons shows promise as a biological factory for converting a renewable — but frustratingly untapped — bounty into a replacement for ubiquitous plastics. Read More
Task force will recommend strategies to strengthen student mental health services
A newly created campus task force will review mental health resources and related supports at UW–Madison and provide recommendations for a comprehensive, multifaceted approach to… Read More
Governor visits research institutes in Discovery Building
Governor Tony Evers, Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes and state Representative Chris Taylor toured the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Morgridge Institute for Research in the Discovery Building Tuesday to discuss the importance of state investments in higher education. They met with faculty and staff members and graduate students doing research in such fields as systems biology, psychology, data science, tissue engineering and others. Read More
UW–Madison alumna named Knight-Hennessy Scholar
The prestigious scholarship provides full funding for graduate study at Stanford. Applicants are evaluated based on independence of thought, purposeful leadership and a civic mindset Read More
MR Guidance: Next frontier in hemorrhagic stroke
A UW–Madison startup called InseRT MRI has the goal of guiding drug placements in the brain with MRI, under a license to a patent held by WARF. Read More
A vision for rural eye care
Eye doctors are in short supply in rural Wisconsin, sometimes requiring patients to make a long drive to a distant city for an exam. But the UW Health Teleophthalmology program has a camera that can be used in remote locations to take photos of a person’s eyes, with the exam then being read by university-level ophthalmologists. Read More
UW–Madison conferred the most PhDs in 2017
UW–Madison granted 844 doctorates in 2017, ranking it 1st in the nation. Over half of UW doctoral alumni work in higher education, including faculty, administration, research and staff. About a quarter are working in business. Read More
Quantum science at UW–Madison joins exchange, invests in faculty and students
“By the investments we are making in quantum science and technology," says Steve Ackerman, "we are ... leading the way in concepts and technology that may revolutionize computing, communication, security and more.” Read More
UW-Madison ranks highly throughout the year
Rankings based on disparate criteria —whether it's student excellence or research impact or access to veterans — all put UW–Madison among the nation's top universities. Read More
Swimming microbes steer themselves into mathematical order
The movement of crowds of things too small to easily see — like single-celled organisms and filaments inside individual cells responsible for cell-division — is critically important to research in materials science, engineering and biochemistry. Read More