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.)
Barry: “I applied to be an artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, and they were going to give me one class for one semester. After that, I was just hooked. I had an experience with my students where I could see how images moved through the individual and how they moved through a classroom.”
After years of planning, UW-Madison is proposing a striking music performance building that would include a recital hall, rehearsal space and eventually a concert hall next to the Chazen Museum of Art on a now-vacant corner of University Avenue and Lake Street.
At first glance, Zofia Stepie??s sketch, ?A Portrait of a Camp Friend ? Wanda,? seems to depict a woman in the prime of her life. Her hair is long, flowing and healthy. She is fully dressed in everyday clothing, and her cheeks are full and round.
Gregg Mitman was in Liberia in June, thinking he was finishing one film. In fact, he was starting another. Mitman holds a distinguished research chair at UW-Madison and curates the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies? annual film festival, Tales from Planet Earth.
A recipient of multiple teaching award nominations, University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor Hart Posen did not think he had much to learn about the craft.François Ortalo-Magné, however, thought differently. Ortalo-Magné, dean of UW?s School of Business, asked Posen ? “forced” is the way Posen puts it ? to participate in training workshops aimed at helping the school achieve the right outcomes.
In the hands of artists, ceramics is a medium for sculpting objects ranging from teapots to abstract human figures. The variety of creative expression utilizing the medium is on full display in the collection of New York City couple Stephen and Pamela Hootkin, part of which is on exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus.
The 2014 QS World University Rankings survey named the University of Wisconsin-Madison first in the world for media and communications studies, according to a university release.
UW-Madison ranked first in media and communications among 100 universities worldwide in the QS World University Rankings, which assess international reputation and draw, the Guardian reports from London.
Back in 1990, UW-Madison freshman Jen Rudin chose 53706 over 90210. Sort of.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson is delivering the annual Paul Offner Lecture on Sept. 30, UW-Madison announced Thursday.
What?s so funny about the University of Wisconsin-Madison? UW grads went on to create two of the most influential comedy franchises of the last 30 years ? The Onion and ?Mystery Science Theater 3000.?
Tom Mulhern UW football beat writer for the State Journal, has been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. A scholarship has been set up at the UW?Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication in his honor.
Soloway is the subject of an extensive profile in this Sunday?s New York Times magazine. In it, she talks about her own father telling her he was transgender, as well as how the trans community is reacting to the show. She also recounts a pivotal moment that occurred when she was an undergraduate at the UW.
Better training and more accountability are needed to improve the educational opportunities for black men and boys from pre-K through college, says an emerging coalition of education research centers, including the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory.
Should teachers be allowed to wade into controversy when teaching civics? Absolutely, says Diana Hess, a professor of curriculum and instruction at the UW-Madison School of Education and nationally recognized civics education expert.
The University of Wisconsin library wants your old Onions. And your Octopuses (Octopi?). And whatever other campus-humor-related memorabilia you have stashed in the attic.
Noted: In September 1936, Curry was invited to return to the Midwest (on view are a telegram offering him the job and another one with his acquiescence) by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and become artist-in-residence for $4,000 a year, a then-handsome sum, especially considering that he had no set teaching duties or other responsibilities. Perhaps most interesting, he was hired to serve not in the art department but in the college of agriculture, with the goal of using art as an outreach tool to the state?s farming community.
The free UW Cinematheque series raised over $35,000 through its fundraising campaign, enough to pay for improvements to its screening room at Vilas Hall. Chief among them was the purchase of a digital film projector, where the movies come not on a 35mm reel but a hard drive.
In college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she tried her hand at playing the ideal college student ? ?makeup, hair, cute clothes? and ?dating horrible, gross dudes.? She even tried to pledge a sorority, but a poorly timed dermatologic event pre-empted this. One day she was taking a walk on the shore of Lake Mendota in Madison with some of the friends she?d made, still very much preoccupied with cuteness, when she saw a bunch of people ? ?like hippies, feminists, demonstrators, political kids, people who fought? ? wading in the water, just having a good and un-self-conscious time. These, she realized, these were her people.
Noted: Their CBS bio lists them as PhD students in food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m., I expect to look around Mills Hall and be unable to find an empty seat. They will be filled with hundreds of people whose lives were touched by the remarkable pianism, teaching, and humanity of Howard Karp. The revered Professor Emeritus passed away on June 30 at the age of 84; I can?t help feeling that everyone around me will have been blessed by a greater personal connection to him than I had. I enjoyed but one personal encounter of any significant length with Howard, but since this blog space gives me the opportunity, I feel led to share it in the hopes that, however well they knew him, others might be touched by Howard Karp yet again.
South Korean pianist Yeaji Kim has been completely blind since the age of 13 and learned to play piano using Braille scores, meaning that each page of music was covered with three-dimensional bumps that made it possible for her to read printed music.
Thirty years ago, klezmer music was a dying art, played mostly by aging musicians at the occasional wedding or bar mitzvah. That started changing in the late 1970s with the klezmer revival, and especially with KlezKamp, one of the first klezmer festivals and a training ground for new artists.
While almost 20,000 students will move into their dorms on the campus of University of Wisconsin-Green Bay later this week, the school is also welcoming another newcomer: Chancellor Gary Miller, who began work earlier this month.
Noted: She was among the featured presenters at an all-day workshop on children?s and young adult literature that focused on Islam. The sponsors included UW-Madison.
Noted: Longtime “American Experience” executive producer Mark Samels, a Shawano native and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, was part of the team that won the Emmy for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special for “American Experience?s” “JFK.”
Former investigative reporter Trish O?Kane wrote in The New York Times recently how focusing on the daily activities of sparrows helped her regain her footing after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans in 2005. … Today O?Kane is a doctoral candidate in environmental studies at the Gaylord Nelson Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches basic ornithology.
Ellenberg, who will speak Tuesday at Milwaukee?s Boswell Book Company, has been encouraging people to apply “the power of mathematical thinking” (to borrow his book?s subtitle) for years through his column for Slate, Do the Math, and other newspaper and magazine articles.
Jordan Ellenberg is a former math child prodigy who has a PhD in mathematics from Harvard and is a current mathematics professor at UW-Madison.
Playing the piano beautifully is a demanding artistic endeavor. But to have a career as a touring pianist takes an extra measure of mental, emotional and physical stamina. The great Arthur Rubinstein was the model of an artist who thrived on the concert stage. He simply loved playing for people and did it splendidly right through his 80s. Not so Vladimir Horowitz, an astounding pianist who gave many phenomenal performances but was a nervous type who agonized about playing concerts, even in the early years, when he was the most dazzlingly brilliant young virtuoso of the day.
Noted: Spang is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher who lives in Billings and exhibits his work all over the world. After receiving his bachelor?s degree from Montana State University Billings, Spang earned a master?s in fine arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996.
Teresa Adams, a UW-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering, recently finished a three-year stint on a U.S. Department of Transportation committee that advises the secretary of transportation on ?intelligent transportation systems,? a broad field of inquiry that includes driverless cars.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s new School of Music is finally scheduled to break ground in 2015.
The UW School of Music, which in recent years has annually presented hundreds of concerts by top-notch musicians for free, will begin charging for its most high-profile performances in 2014-15.
Bruised but not broken by losses at the ballot box and in the courtroom, labor unions will find new ways to organize and ratchet up their influence to the point where legislatures and courts will be forced to recognize that workers? rights need to be respected, predicts Barry Eidlin, a post-doctoral fellow in sociology at UW-Madison.
Noted: Leute, whose great-grandfather ran a resort on the river nearly a century ago, studied photography in college and went on to pursue a career as a commercial shooter. But his heart stayed with the river, and a decade ago ? with the encouragement of a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor ? he began to document the river through the Dells in his own way.
When a student nicknamed Cookie took his life in 2009, his name and picture were left out of the yearbook at Milwaukee?s High School of the Arts.
Nakila Robinson, an accomplished spoken word poet and recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died suddenly last week.
