Mathematics professor emeritus Anatole Beck died Sunday at Agrace Hospice in Fitchburg. Art professor emeritus Frances Myers died Wednesday, a few weeks after suffering a stroke while visiting campus.
The pair — Warren’s voice hoarse from doing so many interviews in the past few days — talked with the Cap Times about how they won, how they were portrayed on the show and how they hope their win inspires young women everywhere interested in math and science.
In Friday’s final episode of “The Amazing Race,” the team of “Sweet Scientists” from UW-Madison was first to the finish line, becoming the second team of Badgers to win the show’s $1 million prize.
Noted: Steve Carell is getting serious awards-season buzz for his performance as du Pont, as are Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo as the Schultz brothers, with Ruffalo, a Kenosha native, playing Dave, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison wrestling coach who winds up at odds with du Pont over how his brothers career is being steered.
Amy DeJong and Maya Warren will be in Los Angeles watching the show, and can’t talk about who wins the race, out of the four finalist teams.
Contains perspectives from poli sci profs Kathy Cramer, Barry Burden.
Bri Blue illustrates why it’s such a challenge for school districts like Madison’s to hire a diverse staff. She was one of just four black students in the elementary education program in the UW-Madison School of Education, the most prestigious education program in the state, in the 2013-14 academic year.
The $150,000 Career Ready Internship grant is from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corp., a student loan provider, and will be administered by the L&S Center for Academic Excellence in the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science.
Professor Hemant Shah was a longtime admirer of Tom Mulhern’s work in the Wisconsin State Journal, and it’s clear to the director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication that he wasn’t alone.
A new UW-Madison performance center planned for the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue will be named in honor of alumnus George Hamel and his wife, Pamela Hamel.
UW-Madison School of Music’s new recital center will be named in honor of UW alumnni and advisory board members George and Pamela Hamel, whose $15 million donation will help make constructing the building possible, according to a university release.
On Saturday night, the UW-Madison Dance Department presented the 2014 edition of its annual Kloepper Concert, a showcase of new student works by 10 choreographers solo or in groups and the Freshman Workshop.
Jensen performs with the Johannes Wallmann Quintet, featuring UW-Madison music professors Wallmann on piano and Les Thimmig on saxophone, Nick Moran on bass and Keith Lienert on drums; 8 p.m., Morphy Recital Hall in the UW Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St.; free.
Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison chancellor, echoed those concerns at a November Board of Regents meeting, calling the proposed creation of new programs “really foolish.” UW-Madison, the flagship, has by far the largest engineering program, followed by UW-Platteville, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Stevens Point. The chancellors at River Falls, Eau Claire and Stout — along the Interstate 94 corridor — proposed the Northwest Wisconsin Engineering Consortium in response, they said, to growing demand from business owners for more engineers in the region.
Translation is difficult and a good translator, sometimes, needs a mystical third eye to understand what the author is trying to say, said professor emeritus of Urdu, Persian and Islamic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr Muhammad Umar Memon on Wednesday evening.
If the syllabus is any indication, Lynda Barry’s class at UW-Madison, The Unthinkable Mind, must be fantastic.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently, Christopher Taylor was practicing Bach ’s “Goldberg Variations,” his fingers dancing over 164 keys and two stacked keyboards.
For several decades, Sapoznik has worked to unearth klezmer music, archive it, and bring it to the public. For those efforts, Sapoznik — director of UW-Madison’s Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture — was named one of the Jewish Daily Forward’s “2014 Forward 50.”
Best-selling author Bill Bryson kept audience members laughing while discussing his books at the Memorial Union Tuesday as part of the University of Wisconsin’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
There’s a lot of attention right now on diversity in children’s books – or, more accurately, the lack of it. It’s not a new problem. White people have been talking about this issue since Nancy Larrick published “The All-White World of Children’s Books” in Saturday Review back in 1965. People of color have been aware of it for much longer.
The young adults who make up the Wisconsin Singers — a show group that travels the state, entertaining audiences with high-energy singing, dancing and polished showmanship — all have full-time commitments as UW-Madison students. Their majors range from education to bioengineering.
Don’t get mired in the enormity of trying to calculate how to make reparations to African-Americans for past centuries of slavery, Jim Crow segregation and discrimination, says a prominent UW-Madison professor. Instead, says Richard Davis, renowned bassist and professor of music, take the opportunity to make amends for the segregation and discrimination that marks American life today.
Henry Sapoznik, who heads the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is featured in the Jewish Daily Forwards 2014 list of newsworthy and notable American Jews.
Upon her death, Winston had been giving to the University of Wisconsin Foundation for more than three decades. She directed funds to, in part, the Wisconsin Union, the Chazen Museum of Art, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection in the School of Human Ecology, the Medical Genetics Department and Medicine and Public Health.
A devoted opera lover, Winston gave directly to UW Opera and the School of Music’s new Performance Center. In 2003, through the UW School of Music, Winston funded a fellowship for a graduate student in voice.
John Karl Scholz, dean of the College of Letters & Science, is launching a large new program to improve career planning and job outcomes for students in his college, by far the largest at the university with more than 16,000 undergraduates in 39 departments.
What if you took the idea of a chair and stood it on its head?You might be inside the brain of Tom Loeser, professor of art at UW-Madison and considered to be one of the finest art-furniture makers in America.
The “Voices for Peace and Justice in the Holy Land” regional conference is at the UW-Madison Pyle Center on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8.
Report from the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, collaboration with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Following the lead of attorneys general in different states, outgoing Wisconsin attorney general J.B. Van Hollen has sued a now-closed for-profit college in Milwaukee for misleading students about job placement rates and other outcomes. Also: UW-Madison English professor Emily Auerbach’s work with nontraditional students for more than three decades won her a distinguished service award from a division of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.
When it was announced that author Danielle Evans would join the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s creative writing program, one new UW colleague noted she’d have to up her “shoe game” to match the Washington D.C. writer’s penchant for fashionable footwear.
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s upcoming lecture at UW-Madison … is part of a larger event, “The Anthropocene Slam: A Cabinet of Curiosities,” a three-day event sponsored by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Hans Schneider, a UW-Madison professor for more than 30 years and a mathematician whose research in classical linear algebra led to algorithms that would help develop Google, died of esophageal cancer at age 87 Tuesday.
The Madison-based group, founded by UW-Madison ophthalmology professor Suresh Chandra, treats people in the developing world and has helped fund free community eye care clinics in Madison
Schneider, 87, who taught mathematics at UW-Madison from 1959 to 1993, died Tuesday of cancer.
Alex Wehrley — Wisconsin native, 2009 UW-Madison graduate — was working on-air for an entertainment and lifestyle television show called “Oklahoma Live.”
University Opera opened its 2014-15 season with the novelty of Benjamin Britten’s chamber-opera comedy Albert Herring. The production is the first mounted under acting director David Ronis, visiting assistant professor for the 2014-2015 season, following the retirement of longtime director William Farlow.
The “Odyssey” may be the greatest travel story ever told. For 10 years after the fall of Troy, the warrior-king Odysseus struggles to make his way home to the Greek island of Ithaca, encountering monsters and sirens and preternaturally stormy seas along the way.
The difference between the Isthmus in Downtown Madison — an “urban heat island” — and collar towns outside the city can be as much as seven degrees on average at night in August, according to UW-Madison researchers. During the day the gap is smaller, at three degrees.
Earlier this month, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The book that tells her dramatic story of standing up for education while being persecuted by the Taliban is this year’s selection for UW-Madison’s Go Big Read.
Story cites Center for Investigating Healthy Minds’ study of meditation and mindfulness.
Monday’s panel at the Pyle Center included University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner and UW-Madison political science Ph.D. candidate Brad Jones.
UW-Madison Space Place is inviting the public to watch Thursday?s partial solar eclipse alongside the center?s astronomy experts.
Also noted: Nicholas Lardy will return to UW-Madison this week to talk about his work as a China economist and his new book, ?Markets Over Mao.?
Cronon on Tuesday will trace the changing meanings of wilderness in American history and make the case for its ongoing importance today. Cronon?s 7 p.m. talk in Shannon Hall in the Memorial Union is the third installment of the Jordahl Public Lands Lecture Series named after the late Wisconsin conservationist, Bud Jordahl.
As it happens, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor has been exploring that precise topic for the past two years. Michael Xenos, a professor and current chairman of the Department of Communication Arts, has been working with professors from Australia and England via a grant from the Spencer Foundation, which focuses on education research.
Sponsored by the UW-Madison Political Science Department and moderated by Cap Times Managing Editor Chris Murphy, the free, public forum will feature discussion among the panelists, with time for questions toward the end. Audience members ? both at the Pyle Center and outside ? can take part on Twitter using the #ctpollchat hashtag.
Reeve Lindbergh was in Madison to deliver a ?Lindbergh Lecture? ? more on that serendipitous connection momentarily ? at UW-Madison?s Mechanical Engineering Department and to see, for the first time, the city where her father lived and attended school from September 1920 to March 1922.
Jordan Ellenberg, nationally recognized UW-Madison mathematics professor and author of the recent bestselling book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, did something very unmathematical Thursday night: He made a last-minute change in plans.
In Oaxaca, Mexico, the Day of the Dead is ?the biggest party all year,? according to Carolyn Kallenborn, an associate professor of design studies at UW-Madison. ?… Now thanks to Kallenborn, there will be a celebration in Madison, too, on Nov. 1 ? the traditional date of Day of the Dead celebrations across Latin America.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Deborah Blum is the editor of this year?s prestigious “The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014.”
UW-Madison doctoral candidate Brad Jones created a model to estimate the levels of support for the candidates based on polling done in Wisconsin.
Deitz is a student at UW-Madison, where he plays with Richard Davis? Black Music Ensemble.
Two UW-Madison initiatives will receive a total of $7.2 million from Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates to help disadvantaged students complete degrees and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
Babcock Hall ice cream, the brandy old fashioned and our love of the supper club may be tough to find in a science book, but not at the Wisconsin Science Festival.
Noted: Ronis, the temporary director of opera and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, started his career singing roles in “Carmen,” “The Magic Flute” and “The Marriage of Figaro.”
Noted: And when ?the war drops its question mark,? Doerr, a former fellow with UW-Madison?s creative writing program, writes, everything changes.
Also noted: A $3 million donation will be shared by top UW-Madison law school faculty members for research projects on a competitive basis, the university announced last week.
Noted: The only person who believes he?s innocent is his sister, played by Carrie Coon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison, American Players Theatre and Renaissance Theaterworks alum, as well as a Tony Award nominee, late of “The Leftovers.”
Aside from the occasional cockroaches, University of Wisconsin?s music students and faculty are finding ways to work around Humanities?s bumps and bruises.
Fertile pockets of dark soil dot the vast Amazon Basin, traces of pre-Columbian settlements. Known as terra preta, they were first created by natives more than 2,000 years ago from charcoal and manure, an innovation that fostered crop growth and helped sustain millions of people until the 16th century. (The review is authored by John Hawks.)
