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• Go Big Read selects ‘A Tale for the Time Being’ for its 5th year May 1, 2013 “A Tale for the Time Being,” a new novel from critically acclaimed and best-selling author Ruth Ozeki, is the selection for the fifth year of Go Big Read, UW-Madison’s common-reading program.
• IT Career Academy diversifies the IT workforce April 30, 2013 Latoria Isom, a recently hired IS Technical Support Technician at UW-Madison's Administrative Information Management Systems (AIMS), loves her job of installing and repairing computers for faculty and staff throughout campus. “There’s always something new to learn,” she says. “I don’t like to be bored and it’s never the same thing.”
• UW to offer new virtual internships to enhance women’s interest in engineering April 26, 2013 The College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer for the first time a course entirely based on digital learning simulations in the fall of 2013.
• UW physicist works with young Rube Goldbergs at Madison elementary school April 25, 2013 The rules are simple, explains Mike Randall, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist, who is leading the Rube Goldberg lab tonight at Emerson School in Madison. "Make a contraption that starts by dropping a marble and ends by ringing a bell."
• New living, learning community to welcome biology students April 24, 2013 To help bio newbies get off to the right start, as many as 130 students will begin 2014 in BioHouse, the university’s 10th residential learning community.
• Five Questions with Marie-Louise Mares April 18, 2013 Growing up in Australia, Marie-Louise Mares didn’t have a television. Even then, she still got the occasional glimpse of “Sesame Street.”
• UW analysis shows learning impact of ‘Sesame Street’ around the world April 18, 2013 According to a soon-to-be published meta-analysis conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, watching international co-productions of “Sesame Street” has a positive effect on children’s learning and is an “enduring example of a scalable and effective early childhood educational intervention.”
• Undergraduate Symposium to showcase exceptional students, honor mentors April 15, 2013 The 15th Annual Undergraduate Symposium, an event that highlights the creativity, achievements and research that UW-Madison's undergraduate students have accomplished with the personal involvement of their faculty and staff mentors, will be held Thursday, April 18, at Union South.
• Recent sightings: Buzz talk April 5, 2013
• Classroom give-and-take launches into Twittersphere March 5, 2013 You can toss away that paper; Twitter just became your study guide.
• UW-Madison to expand distance learning with Massive Open Online Courses Feb. 20, 2013 The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced today that it will offer four pilot courses as part of a new delivery system in higher education known as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
• High-level commission discusses future of graduate education in the chemical sciences Feb. 5, 2013 Members of an American Chemical Society commission will discuss the need for radical changes to graduate education in the chemical sciences at a colloquium in Madison Feb. 7.
• Student Personnel Association Conference seeks out “Educational Mindset” Jan. 31, 2013 Excitement is building for the of the Student Personnel Association’s 2013 conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Speakers to be announced at Big Learning Event kickoff reception Jan. 29, 2013 Panelists for the second Big Learning Event (BLE) will be revealed at a kickoff reception in Gordon Dining and Event Center on Thursday, Feb. 7, from 4 to 6 p.m.
• Book discussion and exhibit highlight Go Big Read selection Jan. 28, 2013 Even if you don't recall fallout shelters and duck-and-cover drills from the 1950s, a book discussion and exhibit will provide a window into that era and this year's Go Big Read selection.
• Lead exposure lowers fourth graders’ test scores Jan. 8, 2013 Lead exposure is related to lower test scores among Wisconsin fourth graders, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Teaching and Learning Symposium seeks ideas Jan. 8, 2013 The annual Teaching and Learning Symposium provides a chance to share best practices, celebrate accomplishments and discuss new learning and teaching practices and theories in a forum dedicated to enriching the UW–Madison learning experience.
• Religious studies course to focus on environmental crises Dec. 6, 2012 A new "gateway" course in religious studies (RELS101, Religions in Global Perspective) will move beyond the traditional survey approach and give instructors leeway to choose a more timely and effective focus. The first edition, on religion and the environment, will be taught by Anna M. Gade, associate professor of religious studies and languages and cultures of Asia. Inside UW-Madison discussed the new course with Professor Gade.
• Doorways at UW–Madison help keep doors to learning open Dec. 5, 2012 A poster titled “Doors of UW–Madison,” features 25 images of iconic entranceways—including to the marble Rathskeller and Washburn Observatory—as well as more modern sites like Grainger Hall and the Biotechnology Center’s glassy facade.
• Documentary celebrates Odyssey Project’s 10-year journey Dec. 3, 2012 On its 10th anniversary, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Odyssey Project has much to celebrate. Journeys from homelessness to graduate school, or incarceration to meaningful employment, are two of more than 250 success stories.