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• Class continues Muir Knoll storytelling legacy July 21, 2011 Anne Lundin is carrying on a tradition at an idyllic campus spot steeped in storytelling history.
• "Boot camp" prepares students for biology education at UW-Madison July 14, 2011 Here's the situation: Recently, three kids succumbed within a month to a new blood parasite at your hospital, and a fourth child has just been admitted with the same parasite.
• Benson appointed sustainability research and education director July 7, 2011 Craig H. Benson, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of geological engineering and civil and environmental engineering, has been named the first director for sustainability research and education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Movin’ Minds promotes academic and physical health July 5, 2011 About 100 middle-school students will participate in Movin' Minds, a program organized by Precollege OPTIONS in Education Outreach and Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• UW-Madison undergrads win NASA habitat design competition July 1, 2011 It's an inflatable home fit for an asteroid: Designing a prototype habitat that looks like giant tent for the next generation of space explorers, an interdisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students has won the NASA eXploration Habitat Academic Innovation Challenge.
• PEOPLE summer programs underway June 23, 2011 Sleeping in is not in the cards for more than 350 middle school students from Madison and Wisconsin tribal school districts who are serious about earning admission to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• ‘Enrique’s Journey’ chosen for Go Big Read program June 8, 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has selected "Enrique's Journey" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario as the book for the third year of Go Big Read, the university's common reading program.
• ‘Virus hunter’ to speak at UW-Madison event June 3, 2011 Nathan Wolfe, an epidemiologist leading an effort to catch the next pandemic disease before it hits, will give the public a window into the big thinkers speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Big Learning Event.
• Saturday Science at Discovery: June focus on ice cream June 3, 2011 You start with milk, but then what? Get the scoop from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, June 4, in the Town Center of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
• Public opportunities abound at National Science Olympiad Tournament May 9, 2011 The public will have many opportunities to experience a massive showcase of hands-on science when the National Science Olympiad Tournament rolls into the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday-Saturday, May 18-21.
• Undergraduate biology research symposium at Union South May 2, 2011 More than 340 undergraduate biology students will present their research at the Introductory Biology Research Symposium on Thursday, May 5, from 5-7 p.m. in Varsity Hall in the new Union South.
• China's champions welcomed to UW-Madison April 14, 2011 Faculty, staff and members of Madison’s Chinese community joined Chancellor Biddy Martin at Olin House to welcome 15 world-class Chinese athletes, including one coach, to the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Recent sightings: Undergraduate Symposium April 14, 2011
• Chancellor announces final-round MIU awards April 12, 2011 The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates (MIU) has granted $4 million to 19 projects to complete its third and final round of funding.
• Undergraduate Symposium is a mix of new and old traditions April 11, 2011 Since 1999, undergraduates have been given the chance to showcase their original research and achievements through the Undergraduate Symposium. Honoring the work of talented students, the symposium offers a chance for campus and the greater community to see students' research, art exhibits and performances.
• UW-Madison, system students gather for "Posters in the Rotunda" Wednesday April 5, 2011
• ‘Perfect’ conversations, new ideas on tap for June’s Big Learning Event March 28, 2011 The fortunate among us have experienced some perfect conversations. They can begin as an innocent exchange, ordinary, unremarkable. They then catch fire, sparking into unexpected directions, feeding on the energy and new ideas and connections being discussed. The conversations get big. And memorable. The Big Learning Event (BLE), to be held June 7-8 at Union South, is designed to produce perfect conversations and powerful ideas.
• Science is in your hands at annual Science Expeditions event March 24, 2011 A little hands-on exploration can open a whole new world, and Science Expeditions — set for Saturday, April 2, this year — is a passport to the world of research at UW–Madison.
• Eighty years and thousands of stories endure in Classical Myth course Feb. 22, 2011 Each spring, for 30 years, classics professor Barry Powell led nearly 500 UW-Madison students in Classical Myth, considered a backbone course for the humanities on campus. So his views on the topic might surprise some former students. “There’s no such thing as classical myth,” says Powell. “It really doesn’t exist.”
• Recent sightings: Ready, set, answers! Feb. 16, 2011