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• TechShop students help nonprofits boost social-networking profiles, interactivity Dec. 8, 2009 College students have a reputation for spending countless hours updating their Facebook status, tweeting with friends on Twitter and watching online videos.
• Event celebrates Park Street businesses, culture Dec. 4, 2009 Celebrate the Park Street corridor on Wednesday, Dec. 9, as part of the first-ever "Celebrate Park Street" event from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Space Place in Villager Mall, 2300 S. Park St.
• VIP launches food drive to support Second Harvest Foodbank Nov. 30, 2009 Visitor & Information Programs (VIP) will be joining Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin in an effort to raise nonperishable food items for families in need.
• Student-athlete leads Red and White Hunger Fight Nov. 23, 2009 In the weeks before Thanksgiving, most college students anxiously count down the days and midterms standing between them and a big meal at home with family and friends.
• UW-Madison students foster community development on island in Uganda Nov. 12, 2009 Eleven University of Wisconsin-Madison students working on an island in Uganda's Lake Victoria knew they were making a difference when a member of the country's parliament came to check out the fledgling girls' soccer team they had helped put together.
• WYOU donates tapes of LGBT show to Memorial Library Nov. 11, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Library will accept a gift of 800 videotapes from WYOU Community Television during a reception on Friday, Nov. 13.
• Nominations for Go Big Read sought Nov. 6, 2009 Planning is under way for Go Big Read’s sophomore year, and nominations are now being accepted for next year’s book selection.
• Students take environmental messages, activism local Nov. 5, 2009 The Tales from Planet Earth film festival this weekend, Nov. 6-8, will screen some 50 environmental films from around the world that explore how stories told through film can influence our understanding of, and relationships to, nature.
• Fifty years of expanding girls’ horizons in science, math Nov. 3, 2009 The Expanding Your Horizons program, a daylong conference designed to expose young women to careers in science, technology, engineering and math, has touched thousands of Wisconsin women during its 50-year history at UW-Madison.
• UW fields and gardens help feed people in need Oct. 26, 2009 Food bank workers have been lining up for tons of potatoes produced at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's agricultural research stations at Rhinelander and Hancock this fall.
• Project CRYSTAL brings middle-school students to UW-Madison lab Oct. 22, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry professor Hazel Holden and Edgewood Campus School middle-school science teacher Daniel Toomey met for the first time because Holden's daughter was in Toomey's science class.
• Public-private venture proposes Internet links for underserved areas Oct. 6, 2009 A broad partnership of Madison-area education, health, government and nonprofit organizations, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is seeking more than $6 million in federal stimulus funding to expand access to computer networks for underserved communities and local agencies.
• Department of Geography holds open house Sept. 22, 2009 The Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host an open house at Science Hall on Friday, Sept. 25, for alumni and friends of the department.
• Slide show: Starry Night Aug. 24, 2009
• Volunteer organization encourages students to make a difference Aug. 17, 2009 There is often a lot more to volunteering than showing up and giving it your all. In a community like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it's easy to write off volunteering as too far away or too intimidating because it's often so different than campus life.
• Philanthropist and UW-Madison join to develop new-generation leaders Aug. 3, 2009 What do American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan do in their "spare" time?
• Faculty aim to strengthen technology, science education by blending them July 24, 2009 A group of UW-Madison researchers and Thermo Fisher Scientific scientists will bring together high school students and teachers to build and use diagnostic equipment that would not be out of place in university research labs.
• Civil War history comes to life at Camp Randall July 21, 2009 The rich history and music of the Civil War era will revisit the grounds of historic Camp Randall on Saturday, July 25, as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
• Keeping it local: UW-Madison diners get 'homegrown' veggies July 21, 2009 A new local food initiative on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is starting very close to home.
• Slide show: Blooming limnologists July 20, 2009 The limnology “major”, one of 18 offered at this year’s Grandparents University, takes grandparents and their grandchildren on to Lake Mendota to collect samples and test the water for oxygen and temperature while aboard Limnos, a 28-foot research boat.