An admissions officer for the UW-Madison says there's an unusual trend developing among this year's applicants which may be tied to the nation's struggling economy. Tom Reason is the associate director of admissions at UW-Madison. He says currently, his office has received nearly 18,000 applications from students wrapping up high school. That's on par with last year's rate. However, he says in-state applicant numbers are down significantly while out-of-state applicant numbers are up significantly...
A new reality series on MTV called "College Life" will document University of Wisconsin-Madison students as they embark on their freshman year. The series, which was announced as part of a line-up of new 2009 shows, was filmed by the students themselves, an MTV news release said...
A researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Medicine and Public Health has been selected to help build a computer as flexible, complex, and small as a small mammal's brain. Research psychiatrist Giulio Tononi was chosen to help create the "cognitive computer," funded by a $4.9 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the first phase of DARPA's Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) project...
