Campus news Latest News
World Languages Day expands with special community event
March 5, 2010The University of Wisconsin–Madison has always been a leader in language instruction and study abroad activities. Community members will now have a chance to experience what thousands of Wisconsin high school students have learned over the past decade: language and culture add meaning to our lives.
Weather Guys get new platform at Why Files Web site
March 5, 2010The Weather Guys - two University of Wisconsin–Madison professors of atmospheric sciences - will now appear at The Why Files, a Web site that covers science behind the headlines.
Dance party to benefit child care center
March 5, 2010“The Beatles & The Beetles” combines a live concert dance party and some creepy, crawly fun in a benefit for Bernie’s Place Child Care Center,…
Wisconsin teen poetry slam team selected, members get ready to go national
March 5, 2010The six top-scoring competitors from last week's Wisconsin Youth Poetry Slam Team finals are gearing up to compete at the Brave New Voices spoken-word international competition in Los Angeles in July.
Remarkable new images show a 4-D view of the heart
March 5, 2010What does the racing heart of someone in love - or on a fast treadmill - really look like? Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) now have pictures that are better than anything that's come before.
Chancellor signs partnership linking UW–Madison with Kazakhstan
March 4, 2010A newly created partnership will increase cooperation between the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a new university in Kazakhstan.
Obama nominates UW–Madison professor to National Board for Education Sciences
March 4, 2010President Barack Obama has announced that he will nominate Adam Gamoran as a member of the National Board for Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
New book explores widespread, troubling legacy of synthetic chemicals
March 4, 2010Environmental historian Nancy Langston started her latest book planning to highlight the lasting legacy of manufactured chemicals that touched the lives of millions of Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
Campus urged to beware of new phishing scams
March 4, 2010The Office of Campus Information Security (OCIS) is aware of two new phishing emails targeting UW's NetID login service.
Nano-foundry technique yields ultra-durable probes from diamond
March 3, 2010When a team of university and industry researchers tried a novel, foundry-style mold-filling technique to make nanoscale devices, they realized they had discovered a gem.
Geography professor hired to study Hmong and other Southeast Asian uplands groups
March 3, 2010Ian Baird will join the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Department of Geography this fall as a tenure-track professor specializing in Hmong and other highland groups of mainland Southeast Asia.
Public-private venture wins grant to extend Internet links to underserved areas
March 3, 2010A broad partnership of Madison-area education, health, government and nonprofit organizations, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been awarded $5.1 million in federal stimulus funding to expand access to computer networks for underserved communities and local agencies.
Gift of $16 million pharmaceutical facility benefits Morgridge Institute
March 3, 2010Mentor Worldwide LLC's donation of a $16 million manufacturing facility to the new Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will help fuel the nonprofit's mission of accelerating biomedical discoveries to delivery as treatments and cures.
The science of healthy minds brings Dalai Lama to UW–Madison
March 3, 2010The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Waisman Center will welcome His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to its public grand-opening celebration Saturday-Sunday, May 15-16.
DNR taps UW–Madison expertise to measure, manage state deer herd
March 2, 2010Wisconsin wildlife managers are tapping into University of Wisconsin–Madison expertise in wildlife ecology, forest ecology and environmental communications in order to better manage the state's population of white-tailed deer.
Dodgeball tournament raises funds to fight pneumonia
March 2, 2010The Best Shot Foundation knew the University of Wisconsin–Madison community wouldn’t want to wait on the sidelines in their fight against pneumonia. That’s why it chose Madison as one of 12 cities to host a dodgeball tournament to raise money to fight the world’s deadliest children’s disease.
Campus events respond to Holocaust ad
March 2, 2010A pair of campus events will address the Badger Herald’s recent decision to publish an online ad from an organization that denies the existence of…
Alumni Weekend 2010 brings great food, notable grads and Badger spirit to campus
March 2, 2010It'll be this spring's biggest weekend on campus.
UW-Madison biochemists take a bead on gene-controlling code
March 2, 2010DNA may provide the blueprint for life, but scientists are learning more about the role of a chemical code that governs the way that blueprint is read.
‘Office Hours’ provides update on the stimulus plan and the economy
March 2, 2010Two experts from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business will discuss the state of the national economy on "Office Hours" Tuesday on the Big Ten Network.