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Recent sightings: Snowvember
A member of the UW grounds crew drives a tractor with brush sweeper to clear the sidewalk of snow as pedestrians walk along…
Badger-Gopher game to boost epilepsy awareness
Saturday’s matchup at Camp Randall is shaping up to be a significant event on many fronts. —The Wisconsin Badgers and Minnesota Golden Gophers will…
Save power, make power: UW chemist confronts ambitious agenda with a brash laugh
Trisha Andrew, a UW assistant professor of chemistry, holds a solar cell that her research group printed on paper last year. She’s currently…
Nominations invited for vice provost for diversity
A national search is underway to fill the position of vice provost for diversity/chief diversity officer, and members of the campus community are encouraged to submit nominations.
Decaying trees being removed at Lakeshore Nature Preserve
Crews will begin removing about 80 decaying and dead trees starting this week in the 300-acre Lakeshore Nature Preserve. All trees identified for removal were either already dead or showed signs of significant decline.
Final days draw near for Partners in Giving contributions
Partners in Giving, the state, university and UW Hospitals and Clinics Combined Campaign of Dane County, runs through Nov. 28. Employees have a few more days to contribute toward more than 520 nonprofit organizations and 11 umbrella groups, many of which rely on these funds to meet their needs.
Former governor Doyle to teach at La Follette this spring
Former governor Jim Doyle will teach a spring class on the politics of state policy issues class at the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Grasshoppers signal slow recovery of post-agricultural woodlands, study finds
New research by Philip Hahn and John Orrock at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on the recovery of South Carolina longleaf pine woodlands once used for cropland shows just how long lasting the legacy of agriculture can be in the recovery of natural places. By comparing grasshoppers found at woodland sites once used for agriculture to similar sites never disturbed by farming, Hahn and Orrock show that despite decades of recovery, the numbers and types of species found in each differ.
Flower links Civil War, natural history and ‘the blood of heroes’
On August 14, 1864, in a Union Army camp in Georgia, a captain from Wisconsin plucked a plant, pressed it onto a sheet of paper, wrote a letter describing the plant as "certainly the most interesting specimen I ever saw," and sent it with the plant to a scientist he called "Friend" in Wisconsin.
AAAS honors four UW–Madison professors for advancing science
Four members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the society announced today.
Recent sightings: Blowing off steam
Geese and ducks swim in and fly above the steamy water of Lake Mendota as the sun rises above the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol and downtown Madison skyline with temperatures in the single digits. The Friday, Nov. 21, view is from the tip of Picnic Point, part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
Satellite history at UW–Madison comes full circle with award
Michael Pavolonis thinks of himself as a volcano guy.
Ecologist/hunter talks deer, plants, hunters and balance
UW-Madison Professor of Botany Donald Waller is a pioneer in exploring the impact of deer in natural habitats. For more than 20 years, Waller - who counts himself among the state's deer hunters - has led research on the economic, health and environmental impacts of deer, including:
Halting the hijacker: Cellular targets to thwart influenza virus infection
The influenza virus, like all viruses, is a hijacker. It quietly slips its way inside cells, steals the machinery inside to make more copies of itself, and then - having multiplied - bursts out of the cell to find others to infect.
Full color 3-D printing takes top prize in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Innovative 3-D printing technology came out on top as Spectrom - developed by a University of Wisconsin–Madison team that includes Cedric Kovacs-Johnson, Charles Haider and Taylor Fahey - won first place in the undergraduate category of the Collegiate Inventors Competition.
‘Active learning’ takes center stage at School of Nursing
The classroom is changing. Massive lecture halls used to mean you could sit quietly in the back, with rows of fellow students perched above a lecturing professor. But you won’t find any lecture halls in the School of Nursing’s Signe Skott Cooper Hall. For students at the new Active Learning Classroom (ALC), the learning is — well, active.
Faculty and staff invited to thank Morgridges for historic gift
Photo: Jeff Miller On Saturday, John and Tashia Morgridge announced a landmark $100 million gift to support new and enhanced professorships…