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Students play a big role at Bucky’s Butchery, campus meat store
Bucky’s Butchery, a retail meat store on campus, employs about 15 student workers in cutting meat, mixing ingredients, processing products, marketing and cleaning.
Training social work students to serve Wisconsin families
The School of Social Work’s Public Welfare Training Program prepares students to join the ranks of professionals who assist and advocate for children and families throughout the state.
Law school professor wins international Stockholm Prize in Criminology
Herman Goldstein, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School, won the international prize that recognizes excellence in criminology research or in the application of research shown to significantly reduce crime or advance human rights.
Gold Star Honor Roll
The Wisconsin Union and the UW–Madison classes of 1963 and 1967 are working together to tell the stories of alumni who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. The names of those who died on active duty during the nation's wars were inscribed in wooden plaques on the Gold Star Honor Roll in the Memorial Union. Now, the honor roll will be enhanced and illuminated through an interactive, electronic kiosk that puts facts and faces with the names. It is being dedicated on Veterans Day 2017.
New model reveals possibility of pumping antibiotics into bacteria
UW-Madison researchers have discovered that a cellular pump known to move drugs like antibiotics out of E. coli bacteria has the potential to bring them in as well, opening new lines of research into combating the bacteria.
New digital kiosk commemorates fallen soldiers
The Wisconsin Union on Veterans Day will unveil a new digital kiosk honoring students and alumni who died in active duty, on the second floor of Memorial Union.
Dan Ludois, inventor of new electrostatic motor, named Moore Inventor Fellow
UW-Madison Professor Dan Ludois is a Moore Inventor Fellow and one step closer to bringing a potentially transformative invention into the world.
Welcome to the redesigned Inside UW
What’s this in your inbox? It may look different, but it’s still Inside UW–Madison. After six years of publication, we thought it was time to freshen up the look of “IUW.”
Catching the Bug
The Big Ten Network program Forward Motion goes behind the bark with entomology Professor Chris Williamson to find out what you can do about the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect is threatening 700 million trees in Wisconsin. Are yours among them?
Family Weekend… with cheese on top!
It was all about the cheese at a Saturday event at UW–Madison's discovery building, as event participants learned about the aging, the chemistry and the taste of cheese at "The Life of Cheese: A Tasting and Science of Cheese."
Cool idea: Magma held in ‘cold storage’ before giant volcano eruption
It’s not just morbid curiosity that attracts geoscientists to places like Long Valley, California. It’s a desire to understand where and when super-eruptions are likely to occur again.
Video: A look at UW–Madison’s search for Origins
Take a look ahead at some UW-focused stories from South Africa about origins: from the origins of life on Earth, to the origins of galaxies in the universe, and the origins of humankind.
3-D imaging of collagen may become vital tool for precision cancer treatment
Researcher Paul Campagnola has taken a crucial step toward creating 3-D images of collagen — the most abundant protein in humans, found in all of our bones, tendons and connective tissues — on a molecular scale.
New Faculty Focus: Fernando J. Marqués
Besides serving as a professor of large animal internal medicine, Marqués is a show jumping rider and instructor.
Curator at ag station helps growers keep close watch on potato health
By monitoring sugar levels, frying test batches of potato chips, and other techniques, Sam Perez helps growers decide when to market their stored potatoes.
Study: Yoga reduces falls among the elderly
Participants in a study saw significant improvements on two measures of walking gait, and on balance, after 8 weeks of yoga classes.
Shared governance, shared voices from around the world
It takes many voices to represent the nearly 5,000 people who make up university staff. Those voices come from all over the globe, including this year, several who are English language learners.
New Faculty Focus: Daniel Weix
This summer, professor Daniel Weix and members of his research group joined the chemistry department, bringing with him a reputation for finding solutions that others might miss.
UW-Madison to use new survey data to improve campus climate
UW–Madison officials shared results today from the university’s first ever campus-wide climate survey, pledging to use the findings to make the campus more welcoming to all students.
Think outside the chicken wings: Unique and delicious food options on UW’s campus
At the stir fry station in Gordon Avenue Market, UW dining hall staff serve 400-450 stir fries a day. Emily Hamer With six…