University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Anthony Shadid (BA’90, Political Science & Journalism) has earned a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the lasting effects of the war in Iraq.
The College of Letters & Science scored a grand slam for a second year with a sweep of the 74th Distinguished Alumni Awards.
A team of UW-Madison researchers recently brought robots right into the hands of K-12 students and parents.
UW-Madison is now playing a major role in a new partnership in particle physics between the United States and China. L&S Physics Professors Karsten Heeger and Baha Balantekin, and a team of scientists and engineers from the UW-Madison Physics Department and the Physical Sciences Laboratory, are collaborating with 38 institutions from the US, Europe and [...]
The Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies has received a major gift from Sherry Mayrent and Carol Master, and the Corners Fund for Traditional Cultures
On Saturday, March 13, the Language Institute welcomed an audience of 100+ to World Languages Day for the Community, a special program of the Year of the Humanities.
Energy is building at the Large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, Switzerland, in more ways than one.
Student reporters in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication received a number of awards from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association this month.
The Milwaukee Public Museum is hosting a major exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible in cooperation with the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation.
Daniel Lecoanet, who will graduate with comprehensive honors from University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring with a double major in math and physics, has won a five-year, no-strings-attached fellowship to pursue graduate studies.
Dan Hausman, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy, has been elected to the 2010-2011 Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell Professorship of Philosophy, a prestigious national award.
Charles Snowdon, Hilldale Professor of Psychology and Director of the L&S Honors Program, recently collaborated with composer David Teie of the University of Maryland School of Music.
Daniel Lecoanet an honors student majoring in Physics and Mathematics and a student member of the Faculty Honors Committee and Honors Advisory Board has been named one of 14 Churchill Scholars from around the country.
The Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service named the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) the UW–Madison as the RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Assistance Research following a nationwide competition.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded more than $1.8 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, history and humanistic social sciences.
Nadine Connor, Associate Professor in Communicative Disorders, and L&S Honors student Jaime Shier were recently highlighted on the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD, NIH) website.
Here’s a round-up of all of the recent awards and honors to faculty, staff and students in L&S…
On November 18, 2009 the Language Institute hosted over 700 Wisconsin high school students and teachers at the ninth World Languages Day held on the UW-Madison campus.
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (UWDC) is pleased to announce its recent collaboration with Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney…
In January 2010, the Astronomy Department and UW Space Placecollaborated with the UW Center For Global Health in a service learning trip to Wisconsin’s sister state of Jalisco, Mexico.
On November 6-7, a group of UW-Madison faculty, students and distinguished visitors gathered for a singular event: theUW-Madison Grand Strategy Workshop.
‘Tis the season and L&S faculty and students are racking up the awards – congratulations to all!
A study published inScience led by UW-Madison Department of Geography graduate student Jacquelyn Gill has attracted local, national, and global news coverage.
Astronomers sometimes need to use telescopes that are in space because the Earth’s atmosphere blocks ultraviolet and X-ray light.
The Communication Arts Department was pleased to host a special event on October 15, 2009 to honor the distinguished UW alumnus Walter Mirisch.
On October 20, Wisconsin First Lady Jessica Doyle and campus Peace Corps representative John Sheffy spoke to a standing room-only crowd of over 60 students about their language learning and Peace Corps service.
In early October, a group of active scholars came back to campus.
Chemistry Professor Lloyd Smith, together with other faculty at UW, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Marquette University, have received an $8 Million, 3-year NIH grant…
The Department of Psychology received the 2009 American Psychological Association’s Departmental Award for Culture of Service in Psychological Science.
On Saturday, October 9, three faculty members from the University of Wisconsin-Madison — two from the College of Letters & Science — were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Pollster.com, a website co-founded by UW Professor Charles Franklin, was named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 Best Websites of 2009.
It’s rare enough for a political science department to have one of its faculty published in the nation’s most prestigious and selective political science journal, the American Political Science Review.
The UW-Madison will host a semester-long fall lecture series based on the scholarship and art of Hip Hop.
Recently, the Department of Anthropology initiated renovations to improve care and preservation of objects and archives.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA Creative Writing Program has been ranked 6th out of 144 MFA programs by Poets and Writers magazine…
Philosophy Ph.D student Jaime Ahlberg (Philosophy, MA’07) has been awarded a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation entitled “Ideal and Nonideal Theory in the Realm of the Political”.
Adam L. Kern, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture, will be offering a new course this fall on manga or Japanese comics, in English translation, titled “East Asian 376: Manga.”
Vilas Research Professor Robert M. Hauser has been awarded three grants from the National Institute on Aging.
Sarah T. Roberts (BA’ 97, MA’07), recent graduate of the School of Library and Information Studies, has completed a fellowship internship at the Washington, D.C. offices of the American Library Association…
You’re invited to the reopening of the Washburn Observatory!
niversity of Wisconsin-Madison professors Theodore P. Gerber (Sociology) and Mark S. Johnson (Educational Policy Studies beginning fall 2009), participated in a meeting…
The Center for the Humanities has received a $125,000 grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation in support of Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities.
In 2009-10, the Language Institute and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature will offer a two-semester sequence of online Chinese courses designed for business professionals.
Jim Kitchell, director of the Center for Limnology and a professor in the Department of Zoology, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant.
Instructors from the Biocore Program, Biocore Outreach Ambassadors (BOA), and the Mazomanie Science Outreach Outpost (MOO) teamed up to offer the 3rd annual Summer Science Camp…
La Follette School director Carolyn Heinrich has been awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to expand her evaluation of federally mandated tutoring programs in public schools.
Jill Casid, professor of art history, will receive a Hamel Family Letters & Science Faculty Fellow award.
Two professors from the School of Music will be teaching students of a much broader age range than usual when they report for duty at Grandparents University on July 16.
David Baum, professor and Chair in the Department of Botany, will receive a 2009 Hamel Family Letters & Science Faculty Fellow award.
The International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009 celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo recording his first observations through a telescope.
The Department of Computer Sciences is proud to announce that two of their alumni have been appointed to significant positions. Both have been featured prominently in national news stories in recent weeks.
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On May 7-8, the Department of History invited a small group of distinguished alumni to a special summit to assist in the development of a strategic plan for effective alumni and donor relations.
Fedor Nazarov, professor of Mathematics, has been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians. Nazarov will give a 45-minute lecture at the congress which will be held in Hyderabad, India in August 2010.
On May 7-8, the Department of History invited a small group of distinguished alumni to a special summit to assist in the development of a strategic plan for effective alumni and donor relations.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has chosen two faculty members at UW-Madison to run two of the ten Summer Seminars for College and University Teachers…
Undergraduates Rodney Burayidi and Hussain Harun created a song dedicated to their experiences at the Chemistry Learning Center.
