Stories indexed under: Milestones

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• Wisconsin Alumni Association earns five awards for publications and programs Oct. 29, 2008 On Wisconsin, the magazine for alumni and friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is one of several Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) and University Communications programs to be honored with awards this fall.
• Milestones Oct. 22, 2008
• Anthropology professor honored by Librarian of Congress Oct. 2, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney has been named John W. Kluge Distinguished Chair of Modern Culture by the Librarian of Congress.
• University names interim director for Nelson Institute Sept. 24, 2008 Gregg Mitman, a science historian at UW–Madison, has been named interim director of the university’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
• Milestones Sept. 24, 2008
• UW-Madison alumna to appear on 'Survivor: Gabon' Sept. 24, 2008 Among the 18 competitors on the new "Survivor: Gabon" will be 26-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna Jacquie Berg, a native of Woodbury, Minn.
• Former state Supreme Court justice to teach at UW Law School Sept. 24, 2008 Louis Butler Jr., a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and the first African American to sit on the state's highest court, will teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
• UW-Madison wins grant for European Union Center of Excellence Sept. 16, 2008 The European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a grant of about $450,000 from the European Commission in Brussels, renewing its funding through 2011.
• UW-Madison’s entrepreneurship program rated among nation’s best Sept. 11, 2008 The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has one of the nation's top programs in entrepreneurship, according to a survey just published in the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
• Milestones Aug. 27, 2008
• Professor wins grant to explore ways to improve Social Security Aug. 26, 2008 Pamela Herd of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has won a $30,000 Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Award to Strengthen Social Security for Vulnerable Groups.
• UW-Madison moves up in latest rankings Aug. 22, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked seventh among public institutions in the 2009 edition of America's Best Colleges, produced by U.S. News and World Report.
• UW-Madison alumnus gives glimpse of Olympic preparation Aug. 6, 2008 UW-Madison rowing alumnus Beau Hoopman took time from his Olympic preparation to answer questions about what it is like for a Badger at the games.
• WiscAlerts-Text tops 10,000 users Aug. 6, 2008 WiscAlerts-Text, UW-Madison’s new emergency text-messaging service, reached the 10,000 subscriber mark on Aug. 5.
• Women’s track leads nation with 13 on all-academic team Aug. 6, 2008 The University of Wisconsin women’s track and field program has placed a total of 13 student-athletes on the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s All-Academic team, matching the highest total of honorees from a single program.
• UW-Madison ecologist receives MacArthur Award Aug. 5, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology professor Monica Turner was lauded Aug. 4 for work that was once criticized as "pseudoscience."
• 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.
• After 28 years, wrestler has chance to fulfill Olympic dreams July 30, 2008 Twenty-eight years ago, Lee Kemp, a young wrestler who had just graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was preparing to fight the enemy on the mat.
• UW-Madison veterinary technicians first to attain oncology, internal medicine specialization July 23, 2008 Two more certified veterinary technicians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine have attained veterinary technician specialist (VTS) certification, bringing the school's total to seven.
• Learfield Sports makes major gifts to School of Journalism and Mass Communication July 8, 2008 Learfield Sports has made major gifts to support technology and scholarships in the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.