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• Two students to receive groundbreaking hip-hop scholarship Nov. 28, 2012 The Hip Hop Sisters Network announced Miona Short of Chicago and Hiwot Adilow of Philadelphia as the first recipients of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s First Wave/MC Lyte Scholarship.
• A guide for creating an Educational Innovation plan Nov. 27, 2012 While there are numerous outlets to demonstrate innovation here at UW-Madison, focusing on one of five areas may help get you started. For each area, there are Eductaional Innovation experts able to help guide you with the process.
• Bioenergy center supports new science education framework Nov. 20, 2012 Teachers aiming to meet new federal standards for science education have a new resource at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC).
• Cross-campus center for bioscience students being developed Nov. 13, 2012 The Institute for Biology Education and Steenbock Library have launched a joint Educational Innovation project to create a biology community and learning center for bioscience students across campus.
• UW–Madison ranks among top 10 in study abroad participation Nov. 12, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison continues to rank among the national leaders in the number of students studying abroad, with 2,159 students studying outside the United States for academic credit in 2010-11, according to the 2012 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange.
• UW–Madison students, faculty receive 2012-13 Fulbright Program grants Oct. 23, 2012 A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and faculty have received 2012-13 grants from the Fulbright Program, the country's flagship program for international educational exchange.
• Class aims to birth software companies at UW-Madison Oct. 23, 2012 Paul Barford, a UW-Madison professor of computer science, has a proposition, and he's got five minutes to make it.
• Study looks at why students leave STEM majors Oct. 16, 2012 The good news: Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) continue to grow and offer better pay than non-STEM jobs.
• Healing the healers: Taking care of the heart of the doctor Oct. 16, 2012 Lucille Marchand, a professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, has asked the medical students in her Healer's Art class how they take care of themselves - what they do to unwind from the incessant stresses of studying medicine.
• Third year’s a charm for Madison Initiative for Undergraduates Oct. 9, 2012 WisCEL is one of the major success stories of the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates (MIU). As the University of Wisconsin–Madison spotlights practices increasing educational innovation on campus, the release of the third-year MIU progress report shows the impact of this targeted funding on high-impact practices across campus.
• Odyssey Project marks 10 years in a celebration Thursday, Oct. 4 Oct. 3, 2012 UW-Madison's Odyssey Project, which provides people facing economic barriers with a chance to start college, marks its 10th anniversary on Thursday, Oct. 4 in a celebration at the Chazen Museum of Art from 5-7 p.m.
• Wisconsin Institute for Discovery adds CBS and WPR distinguished scholars to collaborative environment Sept. 27, 2012 When Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) director David Krakauer arrived on campus, he envisioned creating a place where leading-edge science effortlessly flowed beyond the walls of the Discovery building and the university.
• Wisconsin Science Festival brings wonders of science to life for all ages Sept. 17, 2012 After a rousing debut last fall, the Wisconsin Science Festival returns for its second year this Sept. 27-30 with an even bigger and bolder schedule of people, music, art and explosions bringing the wonders of science to life for all ages.
• UW students go mobile, portable and functional with their computing Aug. 30, 2012 As their computing devices become smaller, UW-Madison students are raising their online expectations. Internet-ready handheld devices and tablet computers are growing in popularity on campus, and students want more from them in terms of features, apps and tools for learning and communicating.
• Brower named to UW System and UW-Extension posts; Olsen selected as interim vice provost for teaching and learning Aug. 22, 2012 Christopher Olsen has been named interim vice provost for teaching and learning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, following Aaron Brower’s appointment as interim provost at UW-Extension and special assistant to UW System President Kevin Reilly.
• FIGs program to receive regents’ teaching excellence award Aug. 21, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison's successful First-Year Interest Groups program, or FIGs, will be honored this week with a UW System Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award.
• CALS departments go in range of directions Aug. 16, 2012 After Brad Barham finished his term as chair of the University Committee, he looked around the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and realized someone needed to help advance the college’s engagement with the chancellor’s initiative on Educational Innovation.
• In second year, Educational Innovation focused on making change Aug. 16, 2012 If you want to get a master’s degree in economics at UW-Madison, the only way to do that right now is to start a doctorate in the subject, but opt not to complete it. That will change starting next fall, as the department moves to offer a master’s degree program to help students with nontraditional backgrounds get started on the road to a doctoral program.
• New building drives changes at School of Nursing Aug. 16, 2012 The School of Nursing is always in the process of evolution, but bigger changes – including a new building – are driving a more comprehensive redesign of its curriculum.
• Engineering moving classroom into digital age Aug. 16, 2012 The Internet has profoundly affected the lives of those born into an information-saturated world, the “digital natives.” It has shaped nearly all of their expectations of the world, including what they expect from an institution of higher learning.