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The search for a new UW-Madison chancellor has officially begun.
Students voiced their concerns Tuesday at a forum hosted by the Offices of the Dean of Students with proposed changes to state laws addressing student conduct.
Purple, red, blue and green spotlights shine on the stage, giving each member of the Kissers a different tint. Cloaked in red light, Kari Bethke, violinist and vocalist for the Kissers, holds her instrument vertically, its neck beckoning to the ceiling. As she dances across the stage, vocalists and guitarists Waylan Nate Palan and Ken Fitzsimmons scream into their microphones, nearly shaking the tables with their massive voices.
Air pollution and a depleting oil supply are two things we know we contribute to. But what are we doing about it?
Sales of energy drinks are expected to grow at an annual rate of 12 percent and exceed $9 billion by 2011, according to a recent study by the research publisher Packaged Facts. These figures are up from $1.2 billion in 2002, according to a recent article in the Progressive Grocer.
Candy and costumes dominate the UW-Madison campus when Halloween arrives. Students leave Walgreens carrying candy bags the size of pillowcases and insist that their parties be ""costumes-only."" Such things raise the question of why this holiday came to be centered on candy and dressing up.
When students compile their grocery lists, they face the decision of where to buy their food and what type of food to buy, how much to spend and how far to travel. What students may not know is that the origin of their food largely drives their decision, because the source of food sets the quality, health effects and cost.
UW-Madison stem-cell researcher and professor of anatomy James Thomson worried little about the funding for stem-cell research during President Bush's terms. He especially did not think it impacted the amount of people involved in stem-cell research.
The students shuffled around Apartment M in an effort to hide the evidence of another typical weekend of overindulging in alcohol.
John Wiley calls it a game of King of the Mountain."" As anyone who has played this competitive game as a child knows, it ends with a distinct winner and loser: the players push each other until the winner remains at the top of the hill and the losers fall to the bottom.
UW-Madison will be the first Big Ten School to have a carbon-neutral"" football game during Homecoming next weekend.
Candidates for student council representatives and Student Services Financial Committee seats met with student voters Thursday night at the ASM meet and greet to discuss prospective plans for the upcoming year.
The average UW-Madison student arrives on campus as a freshman announcing, I will graduate in four years."" Don't let the initial light campus climate fool you, freshmen; to graduate in four years, UW-Madison students must take an average of 15-17 credits per semester. Factor in a part-time job, extracurriculars and social activities, and you can expect to feel as if two full-time jobs have taken over your schedule.
Biddy Martin arrived in Madison last week to lead a university struggling to retain faculty members. Martin is the second woman chancellor of UW-Madison and the first female graduate to lead the school.
Mike Leckrone, UW-Madison professor of music and band director, remembers the tear gas, student protests and troops with fixed bayonets outside the Humanities Building in the late '60s during the Vietnam War.
Writer in Residence Thomas Beaumont, a UW-Madison alumnus and political reporter, spoke Tuesday of the hardships and satisfaction of his position at the Des Moines Register with students.
The Graduate School awarded six UW-Madison faculty members with the annual Kellett Mid-Career Award for their research. The award is given to faculty who worked five to 20 years beyond their first tenured position.
UW-Madison senior Erin Ellison and her friends Katie Dionne and Jeff Olson were all Irish dancers together at the Trinity Academy of Irish Dance before they formed the band Rising Gael. Four years ago, the three dancers teamed up with fourth member, Peter Tissot, to start the Celtic band.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office upheld the two remaining embryonic stem-cell patents in support of UW-Madison researcher James Thomson Tuesday that were challenged in April 2007.
UW-Madison received more fundraising contributions than any other Big Ten school in 2007. The university raised $325.3 million in funds, according to a survey by the Council for Aid to Education.