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Emotion, Health Symposium Enlivens the Classroom
Does anger make us sick? Are there healing powers behind optimism and humor? Do good relationships with family and friends make good medicine for the body? Read More
UW Historian Targets Technology’s Fallout
An expert on the history and social impact of technology, Colleen Dunlavy is guiding 15 undergraduate students through a survey course on the subject this semester. Read More
CD-ROM Broadens Student Experience in Yoruba Class
Students in Antonia Schleicher's Yoruba class say her instructional CD-ROM allows them to learn a complicated language at their own pace. Read More
Plant Science Teaching Goes High-Tech in New UW Greenhouse
With a gallery of computerized temperature, humidity and light controls, the University of Wisconsin–Madison's new instructional greenhouse will have plant science students cultivating in high-tech style. Read More
Lanscape Architecture Students to Exhibit Designs
About 20 undergraduate and graduate landscape-architects-in-training at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will display their handiwork April 6-20 at the UW–Madison Gallery of Design. Read More
UW-Madison To Offer MBA in Agribusiness
Beginning this fall, the University of Wisconsin–Madison will join a handful of schools where students can earn an MBA in agribusiness. Read More
Lanscape Architecture Students to Exhibit Designs
About 20 undergraduate and graduate landscape-architects-in-training at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will display their handiwork April 6-20 at the UW–Madison Gallery of Design. Read More
Advising Services Making Steady Progress Campus-Wide
The hundreds of professionals involved in academic and career advising at UW–Madison have a shared mission and a full agenda for improvement through the three-year-old Council on Academic Advising (CAA). Read More
Student Technology Dollar Goes Further at UW–Madison
Each semester, a 1.5 percent surcharge on each student's tuition (currently about $20 for a full-time resident undergraduate) goes into the Student Information Technology Initiative (SITI) fund. Read More
Guide to Midwestern Trees and Shrubs Now on CD-ROM
Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest, a CD-ROM featuring color photos and information on more than 600 species and varieties of trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers that grow in the region is now available. Read More
Students To Get Prizes for High-Tech Business Plans
Students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will team up to create a business plan for a technology-based business venture as part of a new campus competition. Read More
Madison JASON ’97 Web Site Hits the Air
UW-Madison Sea Grant is developing Madison JASON '97 on behalf of the 4th- through 8th-grade Madison-area students and their teachers. Read More
Non-mainstream Groups Find
Community Through Films at UW
Organizers of several film series say an important function of their programs is building community, forging important ties to the external community, as well as strengthening bonds among members of a particular group. Read More
Canine Design: Students Create Tools for Service Dogs
With a $300 budget and abundant creativity, freshman engineering students have created two clever products that have clients smiling and tails wagging at the Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs (WAGS). Read More
Center for Jewish Studies Acquires Scholarly Collections
Recent gifts to the University of Wisconsin Foundation for the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have supported the acquisition of three important scholarly collections. Read More
School of Education gets boost from Spencer Foundation
The Spencer Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to the School of Education to support graduate students in doctoral-degree programs. Read More
New Program Aims To Improve Written Communication
The Writing Fellows Program, to debut this fall, will train excellent undergraduate writers to help peers with the often-daunting task of writing effectively. Read More
Student Groups Benefit From Faculty Guidance
Interaction between faculty, staff and students does not have to end in the classroom. Read More
MBA Curriculum Receives Tune-Up for 21st Century
The School of Business has opened the hood of its M.B.A. curriculum, gone in with wrenches blazing, and come out with a… Read More