Stories indexed under: Undergraduate education

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  • Hot subjects—Music 319: Musical Ethnicities of Wisconsin Feb. 12, 2008 Most students are surprised to find on the timetable that a Wisconsin-focused class could fulfill their ethnic studies requirement. But music professor Susan Cook says her new class takes a broad view of both music and ethnicity, diving into the use of music in ethnic settlements in Wisconsin since the 1800s, such as the Swiss in New Glarus and Germans in Milwaukee. She will also explore the musical traditions of Native Americans and recent Hmong immigrants.
  • Cover of Curb magazine 2007 issue of Curb magazine now available Dec. 14, 2007
  • Photo of Jersey cow Greener pastures: Dairy science reverses history with enrollment surge Dec. 12, 2007 Since enrolling 189 undergraduate students in 1982, dairy science has seen a steady decline in popularity. But the program is gorwing again now after retooling its cirriculum and its approach to student recruitment.
  • Journalism students hone reporting skills at Freakfest Oct. 25, 2007 For one group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, attending the city's sometimes-raucous Halloween celebration will be a classroom experience instead of a barroom crawl.
  • Hot subjects—Environmental Studies 900: ‘Working Toward Regional Sustainable Development’ Oct. 4, 2007
  • Upcoming conference focuses on first-year experiences Oct. 3, 2007 Faculty and staff are invited to attend the First-Year Conference Thursday, Oct. 11, to discuss ways to engage new students and set them on the path for a successful academic career.
  • Photo of Greene Prairie Fight to save celebrated prairie continues Oct. 3, 2007 Students from UW–Madison’s general ecology class have joined Arboretum researchers and land managers in an ambitious five-year plan to subdue the spread of invasive reed canary grass in the UW Arboretum’s Greene Prairie.
  • Photo of Kelsey Van Ert Spoken word scholars aim to transform campus Sept. 30, 2007 They express themselves and how they feel about the world around them through a powerful mechanism: words. And now the students who have embraced urban art, including “spoken word,” are coming together on campus, playing a leadership role in a national movement and sharing their craft with others.
  • Hot subjects—Physics 206: ‘Seeking Truth: Living with Doubt’ Sept. 30, 2007 Physics professor Marshall Onellion has a new job title this semester: official tackling dummy for his freshmen students. It’s part of his scheme to provoke controversial discussion and to get his students really thinking. Oddly enough, he’s instigating this debate in a physics class.
  • Couple’s $3 million gift to fund scholarships July 24, 2007 One Madison-based couple is prepared to benefit University of Wisconsin-Madison students for years to come, thanks to their decision to speed up the timetable on a lifelong goal.
  • Merger forms new department of forest and wildlife ecology June 29, 2007 The departments of wildlife ecology and forestry ecology and management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences are merging to become the department of forest and wildlife ecology.
  • Dietetics students help kids make edible jewelry at farmers’ market June 4, 2007 UW-Madison dietetics students are working to incorporate nutrition and fresh produce into children's activities by making edible jewelry at the farmers' market.
  • Students standing next to their wind turbine Freshman engineers seize the wind…and a new opportunity May 29, 2007 Inspired to reinvigorate his teaching after a yearlong sabbatical, electrical and computer engineering professor Giri Venkataramanan decided to try an experiment. During spring semester 2007, he challenged the freshman in his introductory engineering class to build a functioning wind turbine from scratch.
  • Two students to lead sustainability bus tour this summer May 16, 2007 Two students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with 11 other students and recent graduates from around the country, are going to live on a bus this summer.
  • UW-Madison bridge, canoe teams sweep regional competition May 7, 2007 Overcoming such obstacles as thunderstorms, muddy turf and an emergency hotel-hallway bridge-building practice, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Concrete Canoe Team and Steel Bridge Team each dominated the Great Lakes Regional Competition, held April 26-29 at Purdue University.
  • Medical device refinements top student design competition May 7, 2007 Designed by University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering students, a device that improves the diagnostic yield of fine-needle aspiration, a sensory-substitution device for hearing impairment, and a magnetic-resonance-compatible device for imaging lower extremities during movement received top honors in the first annual Tong Biomedical Engineering Design Award competition.
  • Food science students get taste of big leagues with Miller Park internship May 3, 2007 It's a Milwaukee Brewers fan's dream: Spend the summer at Miller Park, get paid to do it, and get some resume-building professional experience to boot. This month, UW-Madison seniors Maureen Riley and Hannah Buchen begin summer internships with Milwaukee Sportservice, the company that provides food, beverage and retail services to Milwaukee's Miller Park.
  • Students flex entrepreneurial muscle in competition May 1, 2007 What do a discarded industrial fan, a recycled wastebasket, a surplus fishing reel, and a set of drawers from an old lab desk have to do with entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus?
  • Biomedical engineering competition stresses real-world challenges April 12, 2007 Part of a unique curriculum infused with real-world design opportunities, a new competition for University of Wisconsin biomedical engineering undergraduate students places an even greater emphasis on applying their engineering knowledge to actual problems in biology and medicine.
  • Students enhance undergraduate experience with research March 28, 2007 On Thursday, April 12, from 9:45 a.m.-4 p.m., more than 200 undergraduate researchers from disciplines across campus will present their “ideas that matter’” to the community at the ninth annual Undergraduate Symposium.