Education

• Educational games to train middle schoolers’ attention, empathy
  (May 21, 2012) Two years ago, at a meeting on science and education, Richard Davidson challenged video game manufacturers to develop games that...
• Silicon Valley needs humanities students
  (May 18, 2012) Quit your technology job. Get a PhD in the humanities. That’s the way to get ahead in the technology sector...
• UW-Stout researcher wins innovation award
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• Stem cell symposium to address brain, nervous system
  (April 4, 2012) Scientific leaders in the use of stem cells to solve scientific and medical problems will gather Wednesday, April 11 at...
• UW-Madison research support continues growth arc
  (April 3, 2012) The latest statistics from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) show that scholars at the University of Wisconsin-Madison continue to...
• Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery named 2012 Laboratory of the Year
  (March 5, 2012) The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the innovative 330,000-square-foot public-private facility that opened just more than a year ago on the...
• UW launches improved library technology space
  (February 28, 2012) The University of Wisconsin is kicking off technological updates to campus libraries in a grand opening ceremony today as part...
• Maybe all of college sports should ‘get a life’ and keep things in perspective
  (February 10, 2012) Gordon Gee is president of The Ohio State University, the nation’s third largest in terms of students and a research...
• Peercy, longtime UW–Madison engineering dean, to retire
  (February 8, 2012) In 1999, first-year dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering Paul Peercy looked around at the other new...
• Higher ed getting nimble to meet industry needs
  (January 24, 2012) When the leaders of the biotechnology program at Madison College saw an industry need for laboratory technicians who could work...