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• First-year Interest Groups take off at UW-Madison Aug. 20, 2008 Beginning as a pilot program in 2001, First-Year Interest Groups (FIGs) set out to provide diversity education, connect academic pursuits with residence life and offer integrated learning across a cohort of courses. In its first year, FIGs supported 75 students within four FIGs. Since then, the program has blossomed to more than 580 students and 31 FIGs.
• Program bolsters number of minority engineering graduate degree recipients Aug. 12, 2008 Elizabeth Felton never thought about pursuing a Ph.D. when, in 2000, she began her master's degree program in biomedical engineering. That changed during a gathering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Engineering Research Scholars program (GERS).
• Conference brings science into focus for visually impaired Aug. 6, 2008 A conference titled Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind Conference on Teaching, Learning and Practicing Science for Students with Visual Impairments has been scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 16, at UW-Madison.
• PEOPLE students to be celebrated July 31, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison will celebrate one of its most important diversity "pipeline" programs Friday, Aug. 1.
• Recent sightings: Grandparents U. July 25, 2008
• NASA co-op pushes student to new frontier of vehicle design July 22, 2008 A UW-Madison mechanical engineering student is helping to develop the robotic equipment needed to clear lunar dust.
• Recent sightings: Stem cell summer science camp July 20, 2008
• Families create special memories at Grandparents University July 17, 2008 Grandparents and grandchildren are sharing a campus experience as they learn together at Grandparents University.
• Faculty expertise central to Grandparents University success July 17, 2008 Before strip malls and subdivisions cropped up around Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison students often earned extra money in the summer by plucking fat, green worms from tobacco plants in nearby Sun Prairie.
• Engineers Without Borders July 17, 2008 Watch a WISC-TV For the Record episode that features UW-Madison’s Engineers Without Borders program.
• Doctoral student shares experiences from Nobel laureates meeting July 16, 2008 From June 29-July 4, University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Slaybaugh was among nearly 500 young researchers from around the world to attend the Lindau Meeting, a unique event in Lindau, Germany, that draws 25 Nobel laureates for lectures, panel and roundtable discussions, and social and networking events.
• Morgridge Institute to hold symposium on integration of math, biology July 16, 2008 To address the challenge and position UW-Madison scientists for the future, the Morgridge Institute for Research, part of the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, has slated the first symposium on the Integration of the Mathematical and Biological Sciences, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 2-3.
• Research Apprenticeship Program offers an early taste of the field of medicine July 14, 2008 The Research Apprenticeship Program, now in its 28th year, aims to increase participation and success rates of students traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.
• New study shows persistence of anxiety July 2, 2008 We all know people who are tense and nervous and can't relax. They may have been wired differently since childhood.
• UW-Madison grad student to meet with Nobel laureates June 20, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Slaybaugh never dreamed she'd have the opportunity to chat with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist - much less several of them.
• 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.
• Great people. Great place. Fundraising initiative built around campus’s top priorities June 19, 2008 Three synergistic components define a world-class university: the most promising undergraduates, top graduate and professional students, and stellar faculty. Take away any of the three and what remains is just another university.
• 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.
• Students launch community-supported agriculture farm on campus June 17, 2008 Members of UW-Madison's F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture have started the university's first community-supported agriculture farm.
• New fellows join Teaching Academy June 2, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Academy has announced the induction of 12 new members, including four fellows and eight future faculty partners.