Stories indexed under: College of Letters & Science

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• UW–Madison program provides reconditioned hearing aids Sept. 28, 2011 A hearing aid recycling program that helps provide services to low-income individuals is under way, led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Communicative Disorders.
• Sociologist celebrates 50 years of teaching at UW–Madison Sept. 27, 2011 Longtime professor Joe Elder is being honored for his 50 years of teaching.
• Excitement builds as environmental studies major opens to students Sept. 26, 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new environmental studies major was mentioned in a U.S. News and World Report article that spotlighted nine “hot college majors” from around the nation. The mention of the new major came as students began signing up for the new undergraduate major in environmental studies at UW-Madison.
• New faculty eager to make their mark Sept. 23, 2011 Some come directly from graduate school; some come from established careers at major universities. All of the new faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are excited to get to work.
• Study: Advantages of single-sex schooling a myth Sept. 22, 2011 As Madison deals with a proposal to establish a single-sex charter school, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of psychology is one author of an article that calls the scientific case for single-sex schools "pseudoscience."
• Innovation awards go to biochemist, micro-engineer at UW–Madison Sept. 20, 2011 Two University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have received the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award.
• UW–Madison professor named fellow of British Academy Sept. 19, 2011 William Courtenay, University of Wisconsin–Madison Hilldale Professor and Charles Homer Haskins Professor Emeritus of History, has been elected a corresponding fellow to the British Academy.
• UW–Madison economist publishes book on U.S. financial crisis Sept. 19, 2011 In the summer of 2007, University of Wisconsin–Madison economist Menzie Chinn was among those who started to think something was amiss with the U.S. economy.
• Special exhibitions mark opening of Chazen Museum’s new building Sept. 13, 2011 The Chazen Museum of Art will celebrate the opening of its new 86,000-square-foot building and its expanded role as a hub for the arts on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and a leading cultural resource for the region on Oct. 22.
• Study reveals critical similarity between two types of do-it-all stem cells Sept. 11, 2011 Ever since human induced pluripotent stem cells were first derived in 2007, scientists have wondered whether they were functionally equivalent to embryonic stem cells, which are sourced in early stage embryos.
• Kristi Shook Slack named School of Social Work director Aug. 29, 2011
• Irrigation's impacts on global carbon uptake Aug. 25, 2011 Globally, irrigation increases agricultural productivity by an amount roughly equivalent to the entire agricultural output of the U.S., according to a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study.
• Poverty and national parks: Decade-long study finds surprising relationship Aug. 22, 2011 If so many poor people live around national parks in developing countries, does that mean that these parks are contributing to their poverty? Yes, according to the conventional wisdom, but no, according to a 10-year study of people living around Kibale National Park in Uganda that was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• 500 years ago, yeast’s epic journey gave rise to lager beer Aug. 22, 2011 In the 15th century, when Europeans first began moving people and goods across the Atlantic, a microscopic stowaway somehow made its way to the caves and monasteries of Bavaria.
• Finalists named for CALS dean Aug. 3, 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Madison today announced three finalists for the position of dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
• L&S advising and career offices move to Middleton Building Aug. 8 Aug. 3, 2011 L&S Undergraduate Academic Services (UAS), formerly located in 70 Bascom, is moving to its new home in the Middleton Building at 1305 Linden Drive and will re-open Aug. 8.
• La Follette School to host conference on school accountability July 25, 2011 The La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host a half-day conference to set the stage for Gov. Scott Walker's attempts to establish clear, plentiful and sophisticated information for judging the quality of almost every school in Wisconsin.
• High school rank linked to survival throughout adulthood July 21, 2011 A person's high school class rank is good for more than just getting into a prestigious college.
• Made in Wisconsin: Vessel to contain cosmic force takes shape July 20, 2011 At the heart of most celestial objects is a dynamo. The Earth's dynamo, spun to life in the molten metal core of our planet, generates a magnetic field that helps us find north and, perhaps more critically, shields us from solar winds that would otherwise singe our planet.
• Climate change reducing ocean's carbon dioxide uptake July 13, 2011 How deep is the ocean’s capacity to buffer against climate change?