Tag Outreach

Student-athlete leads Red and White Hunger Fight

November 23, 2009

In the weeks before Thanksgiving, most college students anxiously count down the days and midterms standing between them and a big meal at home with family and friends.

UW-Madison students foster community development on island in Uganda

November 12, 2009

Eleven University of Wisconsin–Madison students working on an island in Uganda's Lake Victoria knew they were making a difference when a member of the country's parliament came to check out the fledgling girls' soccer team they had helped put together.

WYOU donates tapes of LGBT show to Memorial Library

November 11, 2009

The University of Wisconsin–Madison's Memorial Library will accept a gift of 800 videotapes from WYOU Community Television during a reception on Friday, Nov. 13.

Nominations for Go Big Read sought

November 6, 2009

Planning is under way for Go Big Read’s sophomore year, and nominations are now being accepted for next year’s book selection.

Students take environmental messages, activism local

November 5, 2009

The Tales from Planet Earth film festival this weekend, Nov. 6-8, will screen some 50 environmental films from around the world that explore how stories told through film can influence our understanding of, and relationships to, nature.

Fifty years of expanding girls’ horizons in science, math

November 3, 2009

The Expanding Your Horizons program, a daylong conference designed to expose young women to careers in science, technology, engineering and math, has touched thousands of Wisconsin women during its 50-year history at UW–Madison.

UW fields and gardens help feed people in need

October 26, 2009

Food bank workers have been lining up for tons of potatoes produced at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's agricultural research stations at Rhinelander and Hancock this fall.

Project CRYSTAL brings middle-school students to UW–Madison lab

October 22, 2009

University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemistry professor Hazel Holden and Edgewood Campus School middle-school science teacher Daniel Toomey met for the first time because Holden's daughter was in Toomey's science class.

Public-private venture proposes Internet links for underserved areas

October 6, 2009

A broad partnership of Madison-area education, health, government and nonprofit organizations, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is seeking more than $6 million in federal stimulus funding to expand access to computer networks for underserved communities and local agencies.

Department of Geography holds open house

September 22, 2009

The Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will host an open house at Science Hall on Friday, Sept. 25, for alumni and friends of the department.

Slide show: Starry Night

August 24, 2009

Volunteer organization encourages students to make a difference

August 17, 2009

There is often a lot more to volunteering than showing up and giving it your all. In a community like the University of Wisconsin–Madison, it's easy to write off volunteering as too far away or too intimidating because it's often so different than campus life.

Philanthropist and UW–Madison join to develop new-generation leaders

August 3, 2009

What do American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan do in their "spare" time?

Faculty aim to strengthen technology, science education by blending them

July 24, 2009

A group of UW–Madison researchers and Thermo Fisher Scientific scientists will bring together high school students and teachers to build and use diagnostic equipment that would not be out of place in university research labs.

Civil War history comes to life at Camp Randall

July 21, 2009

The rich history and music of the Civil War era will revisit the grounds of historic Camp Randall on Saturday, July 25, as part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.

Keeping it local: UW–Madison diners get ‘homegrown’ veggies