Stories indexed under: College of Letters & Science

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  • Professor wins political science research prize July 11, 2008 Assistant professor Susan Webb Yackee of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has won the Paul Volcker Endowment Junior Scholar Research Grant from the American Political Science Association's Public Administration Section.
  • Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center hires scientific programs manager July 7, 2008 The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has hired a translator to connect researchers who would normally live in entirely separate research worlds.
  • Inventive county government program wins Gladfelter Award July 2, 2008 An innovative program for collecting and disposing of unused medication was chosen as this year's winner of the Lloyd D. Gladfelter Award for government efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Generic brain illustration Study uncovers how Ritalin works in brain to boost cognition, focus attention June 24, 2008 In a paper publishing online this week in Biological Psychiatry, UW-Madison psychology researchers report that Ritalin fine-tunes the functioning of neurons in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) - a brain region involved in attention, decision-making and impulse control - while having few effects outside it.
  • Still frame from e. coli movie Studies of cell traits nets big award for UW-Madison researcher June 24, 2008 UW-Madison biochemist Doug Weibel has received a prestigious Searle Scholar Award.
  • UW-Madison’s ‘African Storyteller’ premieres on ResearchChannel June 19, 2008 On June 18, the ResearchChannel began airing "The Storyteller with Professor Harold Scheub," the story of Sheub's remarkable experience with African storytellers.
  • A father’s legacy will help future students June 19, 2008 After her father died two years ago, Ellen Zweibel received an inheritance. She wasn't quite sure what she would do with it, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor knew she would like to help others.
  • Faculty Fellows initiative offers a new route to retention June 19, 2008 Many deans and program leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may feel like their array of bright young faculty members serves as a recruiting pool for other institutions.
  • Photo of WIYN at Kitt Peak Newly born twin stars show surprising differences June 18, 2008 The analysis of the youngest pair of identical twin stars yet discovered has revealed surprising differences in brightness, surface temperature and possibly even the size of the two.
  • Photo of fossils Ebb and flow of the sea drives world’s big extinction events June 16, 2008 A new study, published online June 15 in the journal Nature, suggests that it is the ocean, and in particular the epic ebbs and flows of sea level and sediment over the course of geologic time, that is the primary cause of the world's periodic mass extinctions during the past 500 million years.
  • False-color image of zircon Ancient mineral shows early Earth climate tough on continents June 13, 2008 A new analysis of ancient minerals called zircons suggests that a harsh climate may have scoured and possibly even destroyed the surface of the Earth's earliest continents.
  • University Theatre presents ‘Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)’ June 12, 2008 This summer, University Theatre will present the off-Broadway sensation "Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)."
  • Pioneer of climatology dies at 88 June 12, 2008 Reid Bryson, a towering figure in climatology and interdisciplinary studies of climate, people and the environment, and the founder of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's meteorology department and Center for Climatic Research, and the first director of the Institute for Environmental Studies, died in his sleep early June 11 at his home in Madison.
  • UW-Madison students restore New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward bayou June 4, 2008 A group of UW-Madison students are working to help restore the Bayou Bienvenue, an urban wetland in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, to ecological health.
  • Part of Milky Way infrared image Milky Way’s infrared portrait gives new view of galaxy June 3, 2008 Astronomers have obtained an entirely new perspective of our home galaxy: a complete mosaic portrait of the Milky Way in infrared light, a picture that when printed measures 180 feet long by 4 feet wide.
  • Nearly $200 million spent in race for the White House June 2, 2008 Almost $200 million has been spent on television advertising so far during this presidential election year, with the overwhelming amount of recent spending coming from the race for the Democratic nomination, according to a study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Two students named top collegiate journalists May 23, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students Amanda Hoffstrom and Alec Luhn were honored this week as two of the top 100 journalists on U.S. college campuses by UWIRE, an organization that supports college student media.
  • Image of supernova Astronomers witness the birth of a supernova May 21, 2008 An international team of astronomers, acting on a tip from a NASA satellite that serves as an early warning system for the most violent astronomical events, has caught a supernova in the act.
  • Photo of Moji Olaniyan A voice nearly silenced teaches art of storytelling May 19, 2008 Moji Olaniyan, an assistant dean in the College of Letters and Science, heads the African Storytelling on Wheels project, which prepares UW–Madison students of African origin to tell stories of their native countries to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders in racially nondiverse elementary schools in eastern and northern Wisconsin. Olaniyan, herself a storyteller, recently regained her voice — and her storytelling — after a bout with voice problems.
  • Cover of Wisconsin Votes book 'Wisconsin Votes' explores lively history of state voting behavior May 14, 2008 Growing up in a politically divided house — with a Democratic mother and a Republican father — may have been one of the best things that could have happened to Robert Booth Fowler.