Tag College of Letters & Science

Finalists announced for dean of Letters & Science

April 29, 2013

Three University of Wisconsin–Madison professors, along with a fourth candidate who taught at UW–Madison for 18 years, have been named finalists for the position of dean of the College of Letters & Science, UW–Madison's largest academic unit.

‘Z’ is not the end for Dictionary of American Regional English

April 16, 2013

The Dictionary of American Regional English has reached the end of the alphabet, but ‘Z’ is not the end of the road for the definitive source on American speech.

UW film professor reflects on friendship with Ebert

April 5, 2013

David Bordwell first met Roger Ebert, who died yesterday after a long battle with cancer, in 2000. Ebert invited him and his wife, film theorist Kristin Thompson, to dinner after Bordwell gave a speech in Chicago.

UW set to receive, screen classic Taiwanese films

April 3, 2013

The screenings of two classic features directed by King Hu, a landmark figure in world cinema, mark the latest donations to the unique collection of celebrated Taiwanese films at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Ten faculty selected for Distinguished Teaching Awards

March 12, 2013

Ten University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards.

Riddle’s childhood exposure to media violence informs her work

February 28, 2013

Karyn Riddle remembers worrying as a child that she or her family would become victims of violent crime. Looking back now, she’s puzzled by those childhood fears.

Secrets of Wisconsin meteorite revealed

February 19, 2013

As Russian scientists scramble to collect and analyze the remains of the historic meteorite that injured an estimated 1,200 people in Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, scientists in Wisconsin are set to publish their analysis of a smaller meteorite that struck southwest Wisconsin on April 14, 2010.

From Washington to Obama, a look at the U.S. presidency

February 14, 2013

Demand grows for economics major

February 14, 2013

Journalism students learn ethics through online case study

February 8, 2013

You're a college student working for a news service, and your editor asks you to check out a breaking-news situation.

Students seek opportunity, employers looking to hire

January 29, 2013

UW-Madison Career Services units will host the Spring Career and Internship Fair on Monday Feb. 4, which will bring more than 180 organizations to campus.

In evolution, fossils reveal, ‘Court Jester’ gets last laugh

January 9, 2013

The dominant factors in the rise and fall of the diversity of life on Earth has been a point of debate for scientists nearly as long as they have studied the processes of evolution.

UW–Madison anthropologist, students featured in NOVA Neandertal documentary

January 8, 2013

Perched on a corner of a table in his biological anthropology lab, John Hawks is surrounded by an array of human skulls, jaws and skeletons – and a film crew complete with lights, camera and a microphone dangling over his head.

Study reveals extraordinary glass properties

January 6, 2013

Technologically valuable ultrastable glasses can be produced in days or hours with properties corresponding to those that have been aged for thousands of years, computational and laboratory studies have confirmed.

Gerda Lerner, women’s studies pioneer, dies at 92

January 4, 2013

Gerda Lerner, Robinson Edwards Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Wednesday, Jan. 2 in an assisted-living facility in Madison. She was 92 years old.

One step closer: UW–Madison scientists help explain scarcity of anti-matter

December 26, 2012

A collaboration with major participation by physicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has made a precise measurement of elusive, nearly massless particles, and obtained a crucial hint as to why the universe is dominated by matter, not by its close relative, anti-matter.

UW-Madison’s Trisha Andrew honored for energy research

December 19, 2012

Trisha Andrew, an assistant professor of chemistry at UW–Madison, has been named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 in Energy. The list recognizes talented young innovators whose work holds potential for the energy landscape of the future.

Games+Learning+Society joins the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

December 18, 2012

In a loftlike upper level of the purple building on the corner of University Avenue and Randall Street, people dart in and out of cubicles with NERF guns, forgetting deadlines and deliverables to wage playful battles for an hour or two with their colleagues and celebrate new office space.

Mapping effort charts restoration tack for Great Lakes

December 17, 2012

As the federal government builds on its $1 billion investment to clean up and restore the Great Lakes, an international research consortium has developed innovative new maps of both environmental threats and benefits to help guide cost-effective approaches to environmental remediation of the world’s largest fresh water resource.

DARE publishes companion volume to landmark dictionary

December 17, 2012

The dictionary known as DARE, a landmark project housed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, now has a companion volume that gives readers a chance to dig deep into the definitive source on American speech from the first colonists to our neighbors today.