Stories indexed under: Undergraduate education

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• Biocore program turns 40 May 7, 2008 An innovative undergraduate biology program on campus is celebrating its 40th birthday.
• Annual symposium celebrates undergraduate achievement April 9, 2008 While much of the diligent work of students takes place behind the scenes, the tenth annual Undergraduate Symposium will be an opportunity for achievement to publicly shine for more than 300 students.
• Writing tribal histories: Class mines archival treasures March 26, 2008 UW–Madison historian Ned Blackhawk would argue that there has never been a more fertile time to be a researcher of Native American history, with a surge in scholarly interest and a deep well of subjects “literally waiting to be written.” Blackhawk is inspiring a new generation of historians to seize this opportunity through his unique research seminar, “Writing Tribal Histories.”
• University establishes new department Feb. 27, 2008 The Women’s Studies Program has evolved into a new department, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies in the College of Letters and Science.
• Symposium opens world of research opportunity Feb. 19, 2008 With 10 years and hundreds of research projects in its history, the Undergraduate Symposium has been instrumental in showcasing undergraduates’ hard work. It’s also opened participants’ eyes to the possibilities of research — and even led some to continue the work they started with the event.
• Hot subjects—Civil and Environmental Engineering 679: Travel Behavior Analysis Feb. 18, 2008
• Hot subjects—Horticulture 375: Organic Agriculture Colloquium Feb. 15, 2008 After two years of teaching an experimental colloquium on organic farming, horticulture professor Jim Nienhuis is no longer surprised by the diversity of majors interested in his class.
• 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.
• 2007 issue of Curb magazine now available Dec. 14, 2007
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.