The University of Wisconsin Foundation recently received the third of five installments of $120,000 each from the Henry Luce Foundation to continue its support for the Clare Boothe Luce Professorship in Computer Sciences at UW-Madison. The goal of the Clare Boothe Luce Program is “to encourage women to enter, study, graduate and teach” in disciplines in which they have been historically underrepresented and to increase the number of women in those fields.
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First Wave Performers Electrify Broadway Stage
Four standout student performers from the groundbreaking First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community at the University of Wisconsin-Madison took hip hop to court on Thursday, February 24, at the New Amsterdam Theatre on New York’s Broadway.
Lecture Links Crocheting, Geometry, Coral Reefs
The Hyperbolic Crocheted Reef Project, made of crocheted contributions from hundreds of craftswomen (and a few men) around the world, will be introduced to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thursday, March 31. Project co-founder Margaret Wertheim, co-founder of the Institute for Figuring, presents the Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture at 5:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
R.W. Baird & Company Brings Featured Artist to Band Concert
R.W. Baird & Company will sponsor legendary drummer Ed Shaugnessy as guest artist at this year’s UW Varsity Band Spring Concert. This will be the third year that Baird has supported the featured artist at the concerts. Previous artists have included world-class steelpan drum player Liam Teague and trumpet virtuoso Mark Pender.
Engineering Expo ’11 Mystifies and Motivates
Future engineers and scientists visited the College of Engineering to discover all the things engineers do. They performed experiments, controlled flashing lights, watched an earthquake swallow a building, built self-sufficient cells and learned that science is pretty interesting.