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  • ISIS begins final phase of upgrade July 2, 2008 Between 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 1, and 8 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 11, the Integrated Student Information System (ISIS) will be unavailable to campus as it enters the final implementation phase of a major upgrade, which started in late 2007.
  • University launches new Web content management project June 18, 2008 A new Web content management system that will be made available to a group of selected “early adopters” starting this summer will allow more of a focus on content, rather than maintenance, on campus Web sites.
  • Image of David Technology to predict strain gets a perfect model: Michelangelo’s ‘David’ March 19, 2008 For statues, stress injuries come from standing in place for hundreds of years. Using a novel technique, researchers have now developed a way to predict such fracturing, applying the procedure to Michelangelo's famous statue "David" in an analysis that proved simpler, faster and more accurate than previous methods.
  • Miernowski wins national online education award Sept. 7, 2007 The 2007 "R1edu Award" for Distinguished Faculty Contributions to Online Learning has been presented to Professor Jan Miernowski of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Portion of a screen capture of the dairy markets Web site New Web site makes it easier to find, analyze dairy market data Aug. 27, 2007 Crunching the dairy numbers is a lot simpler than it used to be, thanks to one of the most comprehensive collections of dairy marketing information going online.
  • UW-Madison receives academic technology excellence award July 25, 2007 The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named as a 2007 Center of Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the national New Media Consortium (NMC). The award recognizes UW-Madison's demonstrated excellence and outstanding achievement in the application of technology to learning or creative expression.
  • Middle-schoolers to give Madison neighborhoods a virtual overhaul June 14, 2007 Some Madison middle school students will have a pretty impressive subject for their "What I did on my summer vacation" essays - developing their own plan for making over the capital city's most famous street and some of its key neighborhoods.
  • Part of the Wisconsin Blue Book cover UW Digital Collections puts Wisconsin Blue Book online June 7, 2007 More than 150 years of the Wisconsin Blue Books go online starting today in the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. The digitization project provides worldwide open access on the Internet to facts and figures on the government, people, industry, lifestyle and history of the state of Wisconsin.