Stories indexed under: Slide show

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  • Photo of inflatable Bucky at Wisocnsin State Fair Slide show: Bucky (and friends) go to the fair Aug. 8, 2008 Cream puffs and the giant slide aside, the Wisconsin State Fair is a great venue for learning new things about the world — making it an ideal spot for UW-Madison to settle in for a day. On Wednesday, Aug. 6, the university did just that by bringing a sampling of science, music and athletics to the citizens of the state during UW-Madison Day at the Fair.
  • Photo from Wisconsin Basecamp trip Slide show: Orientation in the wild Aug. 5, 2008 Fifty-one incoming freshmen have participated this summer in Wisconsin Basecamp, an outdoor orientation program that offers wilderness trips to students the summer before their first year at UW-Madison.
  • Photo of graduate sitting on Abe Lincoln statue Spring commencement in review: Slide show and video May 19, 2008
  • Photo of Alex Trebek and Bucky Slide show: A far-from-trivial competition May 2, 2008 Beginning Monday, May 5, the results of an exciting week in April — when a large production crew from “Jeopardy!” arrived on campus — will begin airing on TV screens across the country.
  • Image of Wisconsin 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.
  • Photo of midge Lowly Icelandic midges reveal ecosystem’s tipping points March 5, 2008 A UW-Madison zoologist describes in the journal Nature an ecosystem population dynamics model built on the flies of Iceland’s Lake Myvatn, showing how even slight human-induced changes can irreversibly alter the balance of nature.
  • Photo of hospital wing with art on display Wisconsin artists featured at new children’s hospital Feb. 18, 2008 If you chance to walk through the halls of the months-old American Family Children’s Hospital, try not to blink. There is so much to see: Every stretch of hallway is bursting with artistic touches — sculpture, watercolor paintings and colorful alphabet quilts.
  • Slide show image Slide show: Revolution’s Wallpaper Feb. 8, 2008 Jim Huberty, who was a political science student at the University of Wisconsin during the Vietnam War era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, is displaying select pieces of his collection of protest publicity posters through March 11 in an exhibit, “Revolution’s Wallpaper,” in the Class of 1925 Gallery at Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St., on the UW-Madison campus.
  • Green retreat from winter white Jan. 29, 2008 Anyone feeling weathered of Old Man Winter or that Jack Frost has nipped enough at their likely now-parched skin should consider a retreat to a publicly accessible campus greenhouse. (Slide show included.)
  • Portion of cover from the book Beowulf’s world comes to life in new book Nov. 14, 2007 A new Hollywood film opening in theaters Friday, Nov. 16, employs special effects wizardry to tell the story of Beowulf, but a just-released illustrated edition of the epic tale from a UW-Madison English professor comes much closer to showing us the world where the action takes place.
  • Slide show: Adventure Learning Programs Oct. 9, 2007
  • 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.
  • Slide show: Greene Prairie Oct. 3, 2007
  • Slideshow: Microbial Sciences Building Sept. 14, 2007
  • New room at the hospital Recent sightings: New Children’s Hospital July 26, 2007