Stories indexed under: College of Letters & Science

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• Outstanding undergraduate writing rewarded by humanities alum July 3, 2012 Sidney Iwanter, an 1971 history alumnus of the College of Letters & Science, likes to say he was too busy dodging tear gas canisters to be much of a student during his tenure at UW-Madison.
• Social media helps doctoral candidate reach out on research July 3, 2012 For researchers, describing complex science to folks outside their discipline can be a tricky or even unpleasant experience.
• $27 million award bolsters research computing grid June 20, 2012 Every day researchers add another sea of data to an ocean of knowledge on the world around us - billions on top of billions of measurements, images and observations of the tiniest subatomic particles up to the movement of planets and stars.
• Moynihan wins national book award June 19, 2012 Management expert Donald Moynihan has won an award from the American Political Science Association in recognition of the significant impact his 2008 book has had on public administration scholarship since its publication.
• Online courses offer foreign policy training for military leaders June 1, 2012 A series of online courses geared for members of the military to learn more about foreign policy and international relations is testing the geographic limits of one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's guiding principles.
• Transit of Venus a rare event June 1, 2012 On the evening of Tuesday, June 5, the planet Venus will cross the disk of the Sun in what astronomers call a "transit."
• Conference marking Witte retirement to explore issues in higher education May 30, 2012 A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian will highlight a conference next month marking the retirement of longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison professor John Witte.
• Interfaith, community service challenge lays groundwork for religious dialogue May 25, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison's participation in a White House initiative to foster interfaith dialogue and service has built a solid foundation for an ongoing discussion on campus, organizers say.
• High-speed method to aid search for solar energy storage catalysts May 25, 2012 Eons ago, nature solved the problem of converting solar energy to fuels by inventing the process of photosynthesis.
• Students win policy challenge with solar energy initiatives May 25, 2012 Two La Follette School students won the U.S. Department of Energy portion of the Startup America Policy Challenge with their proposal about how to make solar energy more affordable.
• UW-Madison journalism students explore ideal in K-12 education May 23, 2012 When it comes to K-12 education in the state of Wisconsin, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students has a pretty good idea of what would make for the ideal system.
• Geology student drills into Tohoku quake source May 22, 2012 For the past eight weeks, geoscience graduate student Tamara Jeppson has traded her usual commute, from her Madison apartment to Weeks Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, for a single flight of stairs.
• Tracking the vampire in myth, culture and politics May 22, 2012 After Tomislav Longinovic left his homeland, Yugoslavia splintered into seven nations.
• Students make pitch for real-life advertising experience May 18, 2012 Marie Renckens stood before her client, walking through a proposed advertising campaign for a first-of-its-kind pediatric health care tool the client, Marshfield Clinic, is developing.
• Chazen expansion project receives architectural honors May 17, 2012 The Chazen Museum of Art expansion project has received recognition this spring from Wisconsin business media and architecture organizations.
• School of Social Work ranked No. 13 in new survey May 17, 2012 The University of Wisconsin–Madison master’s of Social Work degree program has been ranked among the best in the nation, according to a new survey done by TheBestSchools.org.
• School of Music graduate student receives Mellon Fellowship May 15, 2012 Frederick "Fritz" Schenker, a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at the School of Music, has received one of 17 Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources.
• Washburn telescope optics get 130-year checkup, cleaning May 10, 2012 Bit by bit over the last two decades, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's iconic Washburn Observatory has been restored to its original sheen.
• Networking pioneer Landweber named to Internet Hall of Fame May 10, 2012 The decision to put Lawrence Landweber in the "Innovators" circle of the newly-created Internet Hall of Fame is not likely one that cost the nominating committee any sleep.
• DARE celebrates completion at ‘shindy’ May 8, 2012 It was a whoopensocker of a night at the Madison Club last Friday, where the people behind the Dictionary of American Regional English, as well as friends of the project, came together to celebrate its completion.