Stories indexed under: College of Letters & Science

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• New work, new audiences for innovative School of Music project Jan. 19, 2012 Jerry Hui could probably make his audience enjoy a root canal.
• Cartoonist and author Lynda Barry is spring artist in residence Jan. 18, 2012 Lynda Barry, acclaimed cartoonist and author, will be the University of Wisconsin-Madison's spring artist in residence, the Arts Institute and Department of Art announced today.
• Selig Distinguished Lecture delves into Japanese Americans’ relationship with baseball Jan. 17, 2012 How baseball helped Japanese Americans develop an identity and bond with America will be addressed in the Selig Distinguished Lecture in Sport and Society on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Program focuses on management-worker partnerships Jan. 13, 2012 A program to explore how management and labor can work better together for their mutual benefit will be held this month in honor of one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's greatest economists.
• Four receive honors from American Physical Society Dec. 27, 2011 Four University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are among 240 newly named fellows of the American Physical Society, an honor bestowed upon no more than half of one percent of the professional society’s membership.
• John Francis: Silent no more Dec. 20, 2011 Visiting professor John Francis’s journey to the front of the classroom has been filled with twists and turns.
• Workshop to prepare teachers to make stronger case for French language Dec. 19, 2011 They teach what Bloomberg Rankings has identified as the third-most-important business language in the world, after English and Mandarin. Yet, as budgets for public education continue to tighten, teachers of French are struggling to keep their programs off the chopping block in Wisconsin and across the United States.
• Three UW–Madison faculty members honored as AAAS fellows Dec. 13, 2011 Three University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• For Midwesterners, more boxcars mean cleaner air Dec. 8, 2011 Shifting a fraction of truck-borne freight onto trains would have an outsized impact on air quality in the Midwest, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
• 100 years of discovery: Celebrating South Pole research Dec. 8, 2011 To mark the centennial of Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole, the IceCube Research Center invites you to join them for an evening of exploration and learning on Tuesday, December 13 from 6:30–8:30 at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
• Snow in the Rockies, dry summers in the Southwest? Dec. 6, 2011 New simulations of summer rains in the arid American Southwest show that they are influenced by the previous winter's snowpack in the Rocky Mountains.
• Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes Dec. 5, 2011 Two talks at a scientific conference this week will propose a common root for an enormous deluge in western Tennessee in May 2010, and a historic outbreak of tornadoes centered on Alabama in April 2011.
• A farewell to the card catalog Nov. 29, 2011 It will be the end of an era when the public card catalog is removed from its home in room 224 of Memorial Library on the UW–Madison campus.
• José Madera: Keeping a Latin beat Nov. 29, 2011 By day, you’ll find him in Bascom Hall, but in José Madera’s spare time, he’s often with MadiSalsa, a music ensemble dedicated to bringing the diversity of Latin music to the Midwest.
• Grad student Jennifer Conrad sees the beast in us all Nov. 29, 2011 While many people may not see themselves reflected when they look into the eyes of a dog or cat, when Jennifer Conrad sees an animal, she sees its connection to humanity.
• Ancient environment found to drive marine biodiversity Nov. 25, 2011 Much of our knowledge about past life has come from the fossil record — but how accurately does that reflect the true history and drivers of biodiversity on Earth?
• Obey, Gunderson to speak on public leadership Nov. 17, 2011 Two former Wisconsin U.S. House representatives will discuss the "Challenges for Public Leadership in Today's World" at the annual Paul Offner Memorial Lecture in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Nov. 30.
• Satellite technology enables rapid, accurate mapping of forest harvest in upper Midwest Nov. 9, 2011 Using satellite images, Mutlu Ozdogan, an assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is automatically generating maps showing where trees have been harvested in the form of clear-cut areas over five-year intervals.
• Major study returns to probe mid-life, recession-related harm Nov. 9, 2011 The deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression is a prime research opportunity for "Midlife in the United States," a long-running and expansive study of the interplay between social and psychological factors and physical health.
• UW professors honored by American Chemical Society Nov. 8, 2011 Four University of Wisconsin–Madison professors have won awards from the American Chemical Society (ACS) in recognition of research excellence. They will be honored at a ceremony next March at the society’s 243rd national meeting in San Diego.