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  • 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.
  • Wisconsin Science Festival seeks partners to expand celebration statewide Sept. 27-30 Aug. 10, 2012 After a rousing debut last fall in Madison, the Wisconsin Science Festival is encouraging supporters of learning and science from around the state to help expand the festival during its second year by staging local events this Sept. 27-30.
  • Conference helps 1,000 worldwide educators explore distance education Aug. 8, 2012 One of the largest conferences on distance education teaching and learning is bringing about 1,000 educators to Madison this week.
  • PEOPLE detectives get to the bottom of mock crime July 27, 2012 UW-Madison Provost Paul M. DeLuca Jr. says he’s willing to do almost anything to help students learn.
  • Photo: Sailing class Slideshow: The campus is abuzz with warm-weather learning July 24, 2012 Think the UW campus slows down during the summer? Well, think again: The university is a mighty busy place well into August.
  • Northern Wisconsin high schoolers learn with stem cells, UW researchers July 17, 2012 Eighteen top science students from northern Wisconsin high schools have earned the opportunity to hone their laboratory skills and work alongside leading researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at a summer science camp focused on stem cells.
  • Sustainability engineers fill key industry needs July 16, 2012 Patrick Eagan likes to look at sustainability as an opportunity for engineers to become leaders in green development. Today, sustainability is no longer just a concept but a global imperative —and as human impact on the earth increases, changes are needed to keep the planet healthy. To address demand, Eagan, a UW-Madison professor of engineering professional development, worked on a team of professionals who created the new online master of engineering in sustainable systems engineering (SSE) degree at UW-Madison.
  • Summer in prison: Students get real world experience with Family Law Project July 9, 2012 For many students, summers are spent traveling and taking a break from school, but not for six University of Wisconsin Law School students participating in the Family Law Project.
  • Institute provides engagement tools for working with youth July 6, 2012 If you are an educator or community leader looking seeking ways to capture, keep and encourage your students' focus on learning through spoken word, art, music and movement, there is still time to register for "Hip-Hop in the Heartland," this year's Educator and Community Leader Training Institute.
  • Student teams find winning recipe in national food competitions June 29, 2012 The UW-Madison food science club has three new awards to add to its trophy case after spending this past week at the Institute for Food Technologists annual meeting in Las Vegas. The club fielded two teams in a Disney-sponsored collegiate food product development competition, and won first and second place for their innovative, healthy, kid-friendly products.
  • Law that radically changed UW signed 150 years ago June 29, 2012 The 150th anniversary of a law that radically changed the mission of the University of Wisconsin and gave rise to the Wisconsin Idea is Monday, July 2. On that date in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which established the nation’s land grant universities and broadened the UW’s academic scope beyond the liberal arts.
  • Learn about science in Spanish at Explorando las Ciencias June 13, 2012 Explorando las Ciencias, a popular Spanish-language science outreach event, will take place from 2 to 10 p.m. on Friday, June 22, at Warner Park in the Community Recreation Center and shelter at Warner Park, 1625 Northport Drive, and with the help of “Amigos en Azul,” a Madison police organization aimed at building partnerships in the city’s Hispanic community.
  • UW-Madison partnership creates educational game development tools June 13, 2012 Studies highlight the benefits of playing educational video games, but a new partnership seeks to understand whether the act of designing video games boosts students’ computational thinking and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills.
  • “Science is Fun Summer Extravaganza” scheduled with noted science educator June 12, 2012 Chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri, whose “Science is Fun” demonstrations have been a tradition in Madison for 42 years, will present a “Summer Extravaganza” on campus June 25.
  • China visit aims to deepen Wisconsin’s engagement June 7, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward is leading a Wisconsin delegation to China, where he will inaugurate UW-Madison's first overseas outpost and participate in events aimed at deepening engagement with Chinese partners.
  • UW-Madison community-based learning projects awarded $297,769 May 23, 2012 The Morgridge Center for Public Service will award $297,769 to support academically based service-learning courses and community-based research work at the University of Wisconsin -Madison.
  • Celebrate the retirement of University Houses Preschool employee May 22, 2012 To show appreciation for her dedication to teaching at University Houses Preschool, a retirement celebration will be hosted honoring Becky Evans’ career.
  • School of Education partners with Stockholm University May 15, 2012 Graduate students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education have a new opportunity to bring a global perspective into their work as they seek to tackle some of the toughest issues in education.
  • Science night fosters grade-schoolers’ natural curiosity April 27, 2012 A delighted murmur – a hybrid of “Wow!” and “Whoa!” -- arises as an ultraviolet light illuminates the invisible traces of chemicals on a chromatography paper, and Dave Stevenson knows he’s done his job at Family Science Night at Emerson School on Madison’s east side. Stevenson, a microbiologist at the federal Dairy Forage Research Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, gives an outline of chromatography for 22 students in first through fifth grades.
  • Madison proclaims April 28 Chican@ Latin@ Studies Day April 25, 2012 Mayor Paul Soglin has signed a proclamation designating this Saturday, April 28, as Chican@ Latin@ Studies Day in the city of Madison. It is the 35th anniversary of the program.