Grapes of Wrath at University Theatre by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati directed by Norma Saldivar Hemsley Theatre This 1990 Tony award-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s iconic American novel recounts the powerfully and painfully familiar story of the Joad family’s forced migration to California after the dust bowl. Through great loss, unending hope, devastating [...]
The Laboratory of Professor Carol Lee, in the Center of Rapid Evolution (CORE) and the Department of Zoology, has been awarded two grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Both grants focus on critical environmental topics using the copepod Eurytemora affinis or E. affinis, as a model systen. Copepods are small crustaceans that form the [...]
Mary Perkinson, nearing the completion of her D.M.A. degree in violin performance at the School of Music, has combined empathy and entrepreneurship to forge a partnership benefiting hospital patients and music students. It began in the summer of 2009 with a visit to the Cleveland Clinic where a family member had recently undergone surgery. While [...]
UW-Madison’s Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) is proud to present Andrei Codrescu, NPR commentator and prolific writer and editor. He will give a free, public lecture at the Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, on Monday, October 4, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. During his visit to Madison, Codrescu will speak with [...]
The Russian Flagship Program admitted its first class of students to begin the program in the Fall 2010. The new undergraduate program provides highly motivated students the opportunity to achieve a professional level of competence in Russian …
The week before classes started, new instructors of languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Twi, Yoruba and Zulu came together for a 3-day workshop coordinated by the Language Institute on teaching foreign languages at the college level. The workshop included lectures by Sally Magnan, Department of [...]
Jaime Moore and Ryan Sovinski, two graduate students in the UW-Madison Department of Communicative Disorders received 2010 SPARC Awards from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. SPARC Awards or Students Preparing for Academic & Research Careers, are designed to provide opportunities for enhanced educational mentorship experiences that prepare students for successful PhD education and academic careers. [...]
This fall, the UW-Madison Philosophy Department will host the 2010 meeting of the Midwest Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP). Event Details: October 22-24 in Helen C. White Hall (College Library) Room 7191 600 N. Park Street, Madison WI Events and talks will run from 7:00pm to 9:00 pmFriday evening, from 8:00am [...]
Ellen Samuels, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English, has won the prestigious 2011 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship for her essay, “Examining Millie and Christine McKoy: Where Enslavement and Enfreakment Meet.” The award, presented by the University of Chicago Press, recognizes excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist [...]
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is excited to welcome two new colleagues, Assistant Professor Keisha Lindsay and Assistant Professor Eunjung Kim. Lindsay’s research and teaching interests include black feminist theory, black masculinities, and the gendered politics of popular culture, as well as the racial and gendered implications of designating children as a protected [...]
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies moved into a beautiful new space in the recently renovated Sterling Hall. The new departmental space reflects the exciting growth and development happening in the department, including the addition of two new faculty members this year. Gender and Women’s Studies can now be found on the third floor [...]
The UW-Madison Center for South Asia, under the leadership of Center Director J. Mark Kenoyer, has secured another four years of funding under the U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center program. The center will be funded through 2014 and is a fantastic result as the Center celebrates its 50th anniversary. As a [...]
The MadOpera blog featured a Q&A with Scott Gendel, the composer behind “Across a Distance” which opens September 17th at Mitchell Theatre. ”Across a Distance” is a a multimedia bilingual performance piece for soprano and deaf actor. Read the full story…
Alexander Nagel and Stephen Wainger of the Department of Mathematics have been awarded the 2007-08 Stefan Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Nagel is the Steenbock Professor of Mathematical Sciences, and Waigner is the Antoni Zygmund Professor of Mathematics. The two are honored for their fundamental contributions in collaborative work in the the study of Bergman [...]
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, William F. Vilas Professor, was chosen as Fellow of the newly created L’Institut d’Etudes Avancées-Paris (Institute for Advanced Study-Paris) in order to continue her work on “Aesthetic and Warfare in Comparative Perspective.” She began the project as The Distinguished Chair of Modern Culture at the Library of Congress which she served in 2009. [...]
Testing Mother Earth’s Resilience (Science) L&S alumna Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs (PhD’ 08, Engineering and Limnology), was recently featured in Science’s Career Profile: During her two-and-a-half years at the University of Wisconsin, Biggs worked under the mentorship of Limnology Professor Stephen Carpenter Biggs now has a post doc appointment at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Each year the Wisconsin Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Association (WSHA) invites students studying at universities across Wisconsin to apply for 12 highly competitive scholarships. This year UW-Madison students enrolled in the Department of Communicative Disorders were awarded 7 out of the 12 scholarships for the 2011 competition. The UW-Madison Department of Communicative Disorders scholarship recipients [...]
What do Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 essay declaring “The End of History” and the 1990 Jesus Jones song celebrating “Right Here, Right Now” have in common? In the hands of critic, scholar, and poet Joshua Clover, they are the starting place for a sweeping exploration of the relationship between pop music and its social context. Clover [...]
There’s something rather “illuminating” happening on campus this week — have you noticed the light installations on campus buildings? Check out these great pictures from September 14th …
Jim Kitchell, the Arthur Hasler Professor of Zoology, recently retired. Kitchell has been a longtime figure on the UW-Madison campus, serving as faculty member in the Department of Zoology and the former Director of the Center for Limnology. His primary area of research was on predator-prey interactions and their role in food web structure. His [...]
Across A Distance by Nick Lantz; music by Scott Gendel directed by Kelly J. G. Bremner Mitchell Theatre, UW-Madison campus The disparate worlds of Deaf performance and opera come together for this world premiere. Across A Distance is a multimedia bilingual (English and American Sign Language) performance piece that tells the story of two people, [...]
Aili Mari Tripp, professor of political science and gender and women’s studies, takes a close, clear-sighted look at Ugandan politics since 1986, when Yoweri Museveni became the country’s president in her new book, Museveni’s Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010). Museveni’s exercise of power has been replete with contradictions: steps toward political [...]
The University of Wisconsin campus celebrated Emeritus Professor Jost Hermand the weekend of September 9-11th. Hermand, professor emeritus of German, is widely considered the most famous living scholar of German literature and culture — and even at 80-years-old, Hermand still teachers in Berlin and at UW-Madison …
The College of Letters & Science is home to one of the most renowned dictionaries in the world. That’s right, a dictionary. And this dictionary isn’t like any other — the Dictionary of American Regional English or DARE, shows where people use words …
Twelve L&S instructors recently received DoIT Engage Awards to explore Digital Media Assignments (DMA) in their classes. These instructors will work closely with consulting staff and campus librarians to plan innovative multimedia assignments, from short documentaries and digital stories, to scientific tutorials and digital research proposals. L&S Learning Support Services (LSS) has been working with [...]
Professor Claire Wendland (Anthropology, obstetrics & gynecology, and medical history and bioethics) has just published A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Anthropologists and other social scientists have published many valuable ethnographies of medical training over the past fifty yearsbut all of the major research was [...]
Four graduate students in the UW-Madison Philosophy doctoral program recently launched Philosophy TV, a website devoted to philosophical discussion. John Basl, David Killoren, Jonathan Lang, and Brynn Welch have lined up a world-class roster of talent to talk about a wide variety of topics of current philosophical interest. Philosophy TV offers anyone interested in these [...]
Karen B. Strier, Hilldale Professor & Irven DeVore Professor of Anthrpology, has been awarded the Distinguished Primatologist Award for 2010 from the American Society of Primatologists. This is the most important award conferred by the society.
Working people had little to celebrate on Labor Day, according to a new report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS). The State of Working Wisconsin 2010, COWS’ eighth edition of the report, presents a grim economic picture both in the short and longer-term. “The economy — which really collapsed starting in September 2008 — [...]
The Department of Botany has received a $4.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research the functions of plant genes in seedlings. The interdisciplinary team, led by Botany Professor Edgar Spalding, will be using computer technology to analyze images of seedling growth and development. There are many tools available to study and characterize genotypes, but [...]
Claudia Card, Emma Goldman Professor Philosophy, recently published the second in a volume on evil: Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide (July 2010 by Cambridge University Press) Card is among the most prominent feminist philosophers in the country and has created a new niche as one of the world’s pre-eminent scholars of evil. This is the [...]
The Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions is pleased to welcome Chancellor Arnold Eisen of the Jewish Theological Seminary as our third annual Thering Fellow. As part of the Thering Fellowship, Eisen will hold conversations with small groups of faculty, students, and members of the greater Madison community as well as deliver [...]
Researchers at the Institute for Research on Poverty released the second annual Wisconsin Poverty Report [pdf], which is based on the National Academy of Sciences poverty methodology and provides a new, more complete poverty measure. The measure was created as a service to the State of Wisconsin and as part of IRP’s cooperative research agreement [...]
Anne McClintock, Simone de Beauvoir Professor of English and Women’s Studies, recently published three essays (reportage and photographs) on the Gulf Oil Crisis. Behind the media blockade in the Gulf (Truthout, Aug. 4, 2010) The Gul Oil Crisis is not over: Slow Violence and the BP Coverups (CounterPunch, Aug. 23-24, 2010) We are all BP [...]
What roles do our genes play in the future of mankind?
UW-Madison Anthropology Professor John Hawks weighs in on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered: ‘Un-Natural Selection: Human Evolution’s Next Steps’ (Sept. 6, 2010)
The meteor that lit up the sky of southern Wisconsin on April 14 and created an international buzz now has a name: The Mifflin Meteorite. The meteor caused quite a bit of excitement in the Department of Geoscience where five pieces were on display in the UW Geology Museum …
Today is the first day of classes, and to celebrate Dean Sandefur sent us a little inspiration ala Henry V …
If you watched the Emmys last weekend, you probably noticed “Modern Family” did pretty well. The show garnered six Emmy awards. And behind that hit TV show is a liberal arts alumnus from UW-Madison: Mr. Steven Levitan (BA’84, Communication Arts) …
