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Nine outstanding L&S alumni honored with Forward Under 40 awards

As founder of the Guatemala-based Range of Motion Project (ROMP), Eric Neufeld ’98 has worked to provide more than 1,500 custom-made prosthetic limbs to people in developing countries since 2005—people who, without Neufeld’s help, might have never regained mobility. With B.A. in Biological Aspects of Conservation, Neufeld represents one of the 13 outstanding alumni of [...]

Highlights

Programs kept Wisconsin families from poverty, report finds

Witte to retire after 35 years of teaching, research, service

UW Madison Chemists Win Awards at American Chemical Society

Class combines art, history and literature to explore the Italian Renaissance

Q&A with Kristin Phillips-Court: Was Machiavelli evil? Why does the Mona Lisa smile like that?

The Music of Surprise, an interview with Ben Sidran (BS’67, English)

Asides

• Jim Healy from Communication Arts and Christina Martin-Wright from the Wisconsin Film Festival promote this year's event on "The Morning Blend." To learn more about the 2012 film festival, click here.
• Doug Bradley: The Man from DARE (The Huffington Post) Former director of communications for the University of Wisconsin System, Doug Bradley reminisces about the late Professor Fred Cassidy, who was the force behind the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), which recently published its fifth and final volume. Read More...  
• A to Zydeco: Saving the Diversity of American English (The White House) The Office of Engagement in the White House features the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) in its blog for being "the longest continuously-funded project of the National Endowment for the Humanities." DARE recently published its fifth and final volume. Read More...
• Exploring Bruce Springsteen's America (Huffington Post) Professor Craig Werner blogs about  his Bruce Springsteen class, which as part of a First Year Interest Group (FIG) which enrolls a small group of freshman in the same cluster of related courses. Read more...
• UW scientists at forefront in search of elusive 'God Particle'   (Wisconsin State Journal) Sometime this year, physicists could very well announce they have confirmed the existence of a particle so important it has been dubbed the "God Particle." Read more...