Stories indexed under: The Wisconsin Idea

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• Engine industry master's program graduates its first class June 28, 2007 Back in 2003, Rick Geisheker, a design engineer for Briggs & Stratton in Milwaukee, didn't mind driving to the University of Wisconsin-Madison once or twice each year to attend seminars on the engine industry. But when Kevin Hoag, the director of continuing engineer education for the College of Engineering, told him about a new opportunity to earn a master's degree in engineering through his personal computer, he knew the university was onto something.
• Mural project offers photo, interview opportunity June 22, 2007 This week, students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education's Technology and Arts pre-college program have been busy with the design, layout and painting of a large mural for the Respite Center, 2120 Fordem Avenue.
• Statewide symposium June 27-29 will train nearly 700 emergency responders June 20, 2007 One of the country's oldest training programs for emergency care specialists and first responders will be offered free for the first time this year to 675 professionals around the state.
• Annual camp making music on campus June 18, 2007 More than 350 middle school students arrived on campus Sunday, June 17, kicking off the University of Wisconsin-Madison's annual Summer Music Clinic. For the next two weeks, the campus will be filled with the sounds of student bands, orchestras and choirs.
• New program to prevent substance abuse offered at 20 clinics statewide June 13, 2007 A federally funded, state-administered screening and assistance program to fight substance abuse - the fourth leading cause of death in Wisconsin - is now offered at 20 clinics around Wisconsin in settings as varied as inner-city Milwaukee, the rural northwest, and two tribal health clinics.
• UW Digital Collections puts Wisconsin Blue Book online June 7, 2007 More than 150 years of the Wisconsin Blue Books go online starting today in the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. The digitization project provides worldwide open access on the Internet to facts and figures on the government, people, industry, lifestyle and history of the state of Wisconsin.
• Veterinarians embrace opportunity for public-health training June 4, 2007 UW-Madison's new master of public health program is opening opportunities for students in all areas of health, including veterinary medicine.
• Wisconsin Idea Seminar: Friday, May 25 May 29, 2007
• Wisconsin Idea Seminar: Thursday, May 24 May 25, 2007
• Wisconsin Idea Seminar: Wednesday, May 23 May 24, 2007
• Wisconsin Idea Seminar: Tuesday, May 22 May 23, 2007
• Wisconsin Idea Seminar Bus Tour May 22, 2007
• Wisconsin Idea Seminar: Monday, May 21 May 22, 2007
• Students create new environmental strategy for Lake Ripley May 17, 2007 With the help of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, communities around Lake Ripley in southeastern Wisconsin are among the first in the state to use an innovative social strategy known as community-based social marketing, or CBSM, to deal with an environmental problem.
• History professor to receive WAA Outreach Excellence Award May 16, 2007 The Wisconsin Alumni Association will honor University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor and department chair David McDonald with the Ken and Linda Ciriacks Faculty Outreach Excellence Award on Thursday, May 10.
• GE Healthcare, UW partnership sharpens medical imaging advances May 11, 2007 When one of the nation's top medical imaging research programs sits less than 80 miles from one of the world's largest medical technology manufacturers, it's no surprise the two institutions would frequently join forces.
• Wisconsin Partnership Program advances Wisconsin Idea May 10, 2007 From combating childhood obesity to creating a geriatric center serving Milwaukee's Latino population, the Wisconsin Partnership Program distributed more than $16 million in grants in 2006, according to the program's third annual report to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
• Seventeen state government officials complete Certified Public Manager program May 7, 2007 Seventeen managers from Wisconsin state and local government will become Wisconsin Certified Public Managers at a ceremony at the State Capitol on May 11. The nationally accredited certification is achieved through completion of 300 instructional hours in the Wisconsin Certified Public Manager Program administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• UW study tests topical honey as a treatment for diabetic ulcers May 2, 2007 Jennifer Eddy, a physician at UW Health’s Eau Claire Family Medicine Clinic and an assistant professor of family medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, is conducting the first randomized, double-blind controlled trial of honey for diabetic ulcers.
• Climate change exhibit opens May 5 in Ashland May 1, 2007 A traveling art and science exhibition focusing on climate change in the Lake Superior region will open Saturday, May 5, at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland. An opening reception will be held at the center at 4 p.m. that day.