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• UW-Madison students improve Ecuador water quality Aug. 7, 2008 Civil and environmental engineering students used their senior design capstone project as an opportunity to fix a water pipeline serving five communities in Ecuador.
• Conference brings science into focus for visually impaired Aug. 6, 2008 A conference titled Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind Conference on Teaching, Learning and Practicing Science for Students with Visual Impairments has been scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 16, at UW-Madison.
• 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.
• UW-Madison Day at the State Fair July 28, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison's legacy of service and outreach to the state of Wisconsin will be celebrated at the Wisconsin State Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 6.
• Coalition spreads the word in Wisconsin about free, low-cost health insurance July 23, 2008 Although more than 90 percent of Wisconsin residents have some form of private or public health insurance, that is little consolation to the estimated 500,000 who find themselves without coverage.
• Transportation researchers evaluate Madison Metro service July 21, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering transportation researchers are compiling the results of ridership surveys conducted in March and April on board Madison Metro buses.
• Theory meets practice in second annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp July 21, 2008 This week (July 20-25), the Wisconsin School of Business will direct the second annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (WEB) for graduate students in chemistry, biology, law and engineering, among others.
• Recent sightings: Stem cell summer science camp July 20, 2008
• Families create special memories at Grandparents University July 17, 2008 Grandparents and grandchildren are sharing a campus experience as they learn together at Grandparents University.
• Faculty expertise central to Grandparents University success July 17, 2008 Before strip malls and subdivisions cropped up around Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison students often earned extra money in the summer by plucking fat, green worms from tobacco plants in nearby Sun Prairie.
• UW-Madison scanner program to benefit local retailers July 9, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is partnering with a group of downtown businesses in a high-tech effort to combat underage drinking.
• PEOPLE students to perform new skills July 8, 2008 For three weeks, almost 450 Wisconsin high school students have been living the college life: eating in Gordon Commons, sleeping in Witte Hall and taking everything from science to fine arts classes during the day.
• Working to bring individuals with large-animal interest into veterinary medicine June 26, 2008 There has been much publicity lately about changes in the agricultural industry, accompanied by speculation that there will be fewer large-animal veterinarians.
• UW-Madison students restore New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward bayou June 4, 2008 A group of UW-Madison students are working to help restore the Bayou Bienvenue, an urban wetland in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, to ecological health.
• Summer conference services uphold university ideal May 27, 2008 With the spring semester coming to a close, the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus prepares for a transition from predominantly undergraduate students to a highly diverse summer population. For University Housing Conference Services Program Director Sharon Seagren, June, July and August are the busiest months of the year.
• A voice nearly silenced teaches art of storytelling May 19, 2008 Moji Olaniyan, an assistant dean in the College of Letters and Science, heads the African Storytelling on Wheels project, which prepares UW–Madison students of African origin to tell stories of their native countries to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders in racially nondiverse elementary schools in eastern and northern Wisconsin. Olaniyan, herself a storyteller, recently regained her voice — and her storytelling — after a bout with voice problems.
• UW-Madison, Sertoma Club provide hearing aids to qualified recipients May 13, 2008 A program through the Department of Communicative Disorders and the Sertoma Club of Madison turns used hearing aids into credits to purchase new hearing aids for qualified recipients.
• Latest Badger Poll results to be released this week May 5, 2008 More results from the latest University of Wisconsin-Madison Badger Poll, a survey of Wisconsin residents' views on timely topics, will be released this week.
• Director cultivates a mile-high appreciation of Wisconsin April 10, 2008 From his 12th-floor office, Sam Batzli has a view of nearby Lake Mendota and Madison's downtown punctuated by the state Capitol. But instead of looking out the window, Batzli looks at Madison and the rest of Wisconsin from much higher altitudes.
• Using street theater to channel the lessons of molecules April 7, 2008 A novel project by a collaboration of scientists and educators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Madison Area Technical College (MATC) is making molecules and atoms the stars of a project to use theater to teach children the basics of science.