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.
Along with trying to attract more minority students, colleges and universities are working to keep those students on campus and to motivate them to pursue graduate degrees and careers as professors and administrators. Right in the middle of those efforts at UW-Madison is Marla Delgado-Guerrero, 32, a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at the School of Education, studying ?psychological, social, and cultural factors that influence academic persistence for marginalized communities in higher education.?
People ask me all the time how they can get their kids excited about math. That ought to be a softball for me, because I teach math for a living. I wake up excited about math.
Organized religion, so often the villain in gay people?s coming-out stories, doesn?t necessarily have to play that role, a new UW-Madison study suggests.
Several recent articles appearing online have pointed to a couple of burning questions about book-reading in this overstuffed era: Why do people buy books they have no intention of reading? And, how can one ever find the time to read a book at all?
Noted: The new film “Abnormal” digs into the history of the racial dynamic that still both unites and divides New Orleans, nine years after Hurricane Katrina. But Alvarez ? who attended Washington High School ? is no tourist. After studying film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he spent a decade working at a video collective in New Orleans.
We?ve all done it – bought an important timely book with great intentions of tearing through it. But then reality sets in. We find ourselves less and less motivated to make it to the end. Author and mathematician Jordan Ellenberg wanted to quantify this phenomenon and has come up with a way to measure when exactly a reader gives up.
Noted:Perennial nominee Mark Samels, a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum, was nominated as executive producer of “JFK: American Experience,” and “The Amish: Shunned.” Samels has 16 previous nominations and has won five times.
Alice Goffman, a University of Wisconsin sociologist, has gained much praise for her new book On the Run. For her research, Goffman spent a great deal of time on the inner-city stoop, where young black men usually only gain arrest records. From all the attention, it would appear that she has produced a revelatory piece of scholarship. But that?s wrong. By any measure, On the Run does not merit the laudatory reviews and notice it has received.
The 51st School of the Arts at Rhinelander begins July 19 through the 23rd at James Williams Middle School. It?s sponsored by the UW-Madison Continuing Studies Department.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the state Department of Natural Resources have started updating the state?s land cover map.
It?s beach time, and you?ve probably already scanned a hundred lists of summer reads. Sadly overlooked is that other crucial literary category: the summer non-read, the book that you pick up, all full of ambition, at the beginning of June and put away, the bookmark now and forever halfway through chapter 1, on Labor Day. The classic of this genre is Stephen Hawking?s “A Brief History of Time,” widely called “the most unread book of all time.”
The Higher Education Video Game Alliance was launched Tuesday at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo. It is comprised of video game design programs at 13 universities that will act as a forum to align efforts and information in a “drastically growing sector,” says Constance Steinkuehler, the alliance?s first executive director.
The UW-Madison Center for Investigating Healthy Minds will start a three-year project this year with 700 fourth- and fifth-grade students in the Madison School District to see if centuries-old mindfulness techniques can improve grades, attitudes and behaviors.
UW-Madison will add six free online classes starting in January, a follow-up to its initial rollout of four massive open online courses, or MOOCs, last school year. The new offerings, free to anyone with an Internet connection, will be led by 10 UW-Madison faculty and staff members joined by one faculty partner from the University of Colorado.
Handler got her start in the earliest days of the Studio Glass Movement ? a chapter in contemporary art that essentially began in Madison in the 1960s through the vision of the late glass pioneer and UW-Madison art professor Harvey Littleton. Handler was one of his first female students, and became close friends and collaborators with fellow students Dale Chihuly and Fritz Dreisbach, two international names in glass art today.
The online science magazine The Why Files from UW-Madison has been named one of the 25 best teaching and learning websites.
The efforts to preserve digital humanities research are as numerous as the definitions of the catchall term, according to a report that urges institutions to develop their own strategies to preserve resources that can?t simply be bound and stored in a library. UW-Madison is included.
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Like many UW students, Jordan Ebert found himself in Dallas this March, cheering on the Wisconsin Badgers for their Final Four match-up with the Kentucky Wildcats, adding to a list of memorable moments in his young undergraduate career.
Participants Wednesday will include University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor William P. Jones, Alder Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, Centro Hispano executive director Karen Menendez Coller, and Gee.
Alice Goffman?s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is a necessary read if you want to understand this reality and try and make sense of significant aspects of life in contemporary America. Goffman?s focuses on a neighborhood near City Center in Philadelphia. But it could easily be Baltimore.
UW-Madison?s Memorial Union theater has reopened after its first major renovations in decades.
