Stories indexed under: Technology

Total: 46   RSS feed

• Advanced manufacturing focus of June 10-14 conference May 7, 2013 Featuring a broad swath of leading-edge research from around the world, an advanced manufacturing research conference June 10-14, 2013, will draw nearly 500 academic, industrial and governmental participants to the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison.
• 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.
• Investment Board, WARF launch $30 million venture fund to target early-stage companies March 19, 2013 The State of Wisconsin Investment Board and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation are creating an early-stage venture capital fund focused on information technology.
• Classroom give-and-take launches into Twittersphere March 5, 2013 You can toss away that paper; Twitter just became your study guide.
• Journalism students learn ethics through online case study Feb. 8, 2013 You're a college student working for a news service, and your editor asks you to check out a breaking-news situation.
• UW faculty dissect growing relationship with China Feb. 1, 2013 In forging connections with China, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created an international model for the university. An upcoming panel of UW-Madison faculty will examine how this partnership with China is evolving and what it means for the future of the university and the student experience.
• Campus plans migration to new email and calendar system Nov. 27, 2012 A campuswide team working to employ a single email and calendar software supplier for the campus has completed critical steps toward implementing Microsoft Office 365.
• UW students go mobile, portable and functional with their computing Aug. 30, 2012 As their computing devices become smaller, UW-Madison students are raising their online expectations. Internet-ready handheld devices and tablet computers are growing in popularity on campus, and students want more from them in terms of features, apps and tools for learning and communicating.
• Engineering moving classroom into digital age Aug. 16, 2012 The Internet has profoundly affected the lives of those born into an information-saturated world, the “digital natives.” It has shaped nearly all of their expectations of the world, including what they expect from an institution of higher learning.
• UW-Madison partnership creates educational game development tools June 13, 2012 Studies highlight the benefits of playing educational video games, but a new partnership seeks to understand whether the act of designing video games boosts students’ computational thinking and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills.
• Aging at home: New project starts with community assets, not needs June 8, 2012 Students tend to fret when they are "invited" to the principal's office, and last April Tayler Nelson was no exception.
• Barrier-free technology coming of age in UW Trace Center project June 5, 2012 Despite the rapid increase in access to and use of the Internet, barriers still exist for a wide variety of users: people with disabilities, people who are aging, and people who have literacy challenges.
• Upgrades to Mobile UW flow from user requests June 5, 2012 UW-Madison has released version 1.3 of its Mobile UW app for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches and Android mobile devices.
• Daya Bay antineutrino detectors exceed performance goals Feb. 29, 2012 After just three months of operation, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has far surpassed expectations, recording tens of thousands of particle interactions and paving the way to a better understanding of neutrinos and why the universe is built of matter rather than antimatter.
• Classroom iPad use encourages innovation, reading with ease Nov. 15, 2011 The iPad, with it's ease of use and touch-screen technology, is catching on as a classroom tool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• UW–Madison plans Wednesday emergency notification system test Nov. 8, 2011 UW-Madison is planning a full-scale test of WiscAlerts, its campus emergency notification system, between 12-2 p.m. this Wednesday, Nov. 9.
• Mobile UW: New and improved Sept. 8, 2011 Mobile UW from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is getting its first major upgrade.
• Web version of WiscMail updated Jan. 4, 2011 The web version of WiscMail has been updated, based on feedback from many e-mail users.
• UW-Madison: There’s an app for that Dec. 3, 2010 Mobile UW, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's official iPhone app, is now available for free download from the Apple App Store.
• Chancellor conducts TelePresence meeting from China Nov. 5, 2010 As part of her trip to China and Taiwan, Chancellor Biddy Martin helped to inaugurate a cutting-edge videoconferencing device now available to the greater UW-Madison campus community.