Stories indexed under: College of Letters & Science

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• University reaffirms support for investigative journalism June 5, 2013 In an early-morning action, the Joint Finance Committee of the Wisconsin Legislature voted to adopt a motion that would separate the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its collaboration with the students and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
• Scholz named dean of College of Letters & Science June 4, 2013 John Karl Scholz, Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy and chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected as the next dean of the College of Letters & Science, UW-Madison’s largest academic unit.
• Five Questions: Lecturer, critic McNutt connects TV viewing and social media June 4, 2013 Watching and discussing television — its production, social impact and sense of place — has given Myles McNutt a unique perspective on the American experience. Through social media, McNutt, now a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral candidate, has found the perfect intersection between research and real life.
• Dictionary of American Regional English gets financial reprieve May 8, 2013 Last month, the financial picture looked bleak for the Dictionary of American Regional English.
• Journalism students create strategic campaign for new company May 8, 2013 The TV show “The Apprentice” comes to mind when students in Deb Pierce’s capstone journalism course describe their semester. Twenty-five seniors in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication had signed up to apply everything they’d learned, over four years of classes and internships, to an actual client.
• Letters & Science finalists to conduct presentations May 2, 2013 Finalists for dean of the College of Letters & Science will conduct public presentations and question and answer sessions ahead of the end of the semester.
• 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.
• Riddle’s childhood exposure to media violence informs her work Feb. 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.
• From Washington to Obama, a look at the U.S. presidency Feb. 14, 2013
• Demand grows for economics major Feb. 14, 2013
• Journalism students learn ethics through online case study Feb. 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 Jan. 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.
• UW–Madison anthropologist, students featured in NOVA Neandertal documentary Jan. 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 Jan. 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 Jan. 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 Dec. 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 Dec. 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 Dec. 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.