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Writer’s Choice: Young musicians perform in WYSO events
Generation “text” can’t concentrate or think, and is unmotivated, culturally shallow and spends way too much time staring vacantly into computer monitors or texting away into cell phone screens. They are doomed, right?
Web tool puts wildlife diseases on the map
A new online map makes it possible, for the first time, to track news of disease outbreaks around the world that threaten the health of wildlife, domestic animals, and people.
Groundbreaking held for Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Gov. Jim Doyle and UW–Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge joined the UW–Madison community on May 2 to celebrate the start of construction of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Recent sightings: Going round and round
Television production for "The Wheel," a UW–Madison student-oriented news magazine show, is taped in part at the Orpheum Theater April 29, 2008.
Slide show: A far-from-trivial competition
Beginning Monday, May 5, the results of an exciting week in April — when a large production crew from “Jeopardy!” arrived on campus — will begin airing on TV screens across the country.
Mechanical Engineering Building project wins preservation award
The addition to the 78-year-old Mechanical Engineering Building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison won an award from the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation at its annual awards ceremony this week.
Time Magazine names James Thomson one of “World’s Most Influential People”
Stem cell scientist James Thomson has been named one of Time magazine's "World's Most Influential People," with Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University. Last year, they each discovered a way to give human skin cells many of the characteristics of embryonic stem cells, an advance that avoids the destruction of embryos.
Students embrace Arabic in new International Learning Community
Arabic script runs along the dormitory hall of the third floor in Adams Hall. To an outsider it looks like an intricate design flowing among the plaster, but to the residents it provides direction and introductions to their fellow floormates.
Spiraling nanotrees offer new twist on growth of nanowires
Since scientists first learned to make nanowires, the tiny wires just a few millionths of a centimeter thick have taken many forms, including nanobelts, nanocoils and nanoflowers.
‘Life During Wartime’ will build innovative curriculum around American war history
A new Wisconsin project funded by the U.S. Department of Education will feature an unprecedented partnership among public school teachers, university and technical college faculty, and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum to invigorate the teaching of American history.