The 2008 Pi Mile Run generated more than $4,000, which will benefit a clean-water project in three communities in El Salvador. (large image)
As 255 Madison students and community members thundered down the Lakeshore Path on the first warm Saturday morning in April, they dodged muddy puddles and happy pedestrians out for a weekend walk along [...]

Tokyo sits on a tectonic plate boundary, making it particularly vulnerable to earthquakes. So, for the capital and largest city of Japan, a seismic monitoring system to predict earthquakes is critical.
However, current technology can give residents only a few tens of seconds of warning that an earthquake is about to strike.
More than 6,000 miles away [...]

For three weeks in January, 30 University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students explored the city and met the people of Cape Town, South Africa. And during the 2008 LeaderShape Institute, held on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus, they learned to change the world one goal at a time.
The Wisconsin students were paired with [...]

More than 100 people attended the fall 2007 Pic-Nuke—one of several social, service and outreach activities that build community among UW-Madison American Nuclear Society student chapter members. (Large image)

As a glistening sun rose over the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering campus on a summer Friday morning, latecomers straggled into Mickie’s Dairy Bar.
By 7 a.m., 11 members [...]

For their senior design project, mechanical engineering undergraduates Adam Schumacher, Kevin King and Mike Kloosterboer are reconfiguring an electric motor to couple with a standard snowmobile chassis. The UW-Madison Clean Snowmobile Team will race the electric sled in March in the Society of Automotive Engineers Zero-Emissions Electric Snowmobile Event (Large image)

Thanks to donations from Madison-based [...]

Materials science and engineering undergraduate Rachel Bible is a fixture in the classroom, but a rarity on ice: She is one of only two engineering students ever to play on the UW-Madison women’s hockey team. (Large image)

Rachel Bible (Large image)

What do you get when you mix two NCAA women’s hockey championships, a lot of math [...]