A discussion of how cultivating forgiveness can be a healing, strengthening force.

Professor Enright is one of the world's authorities on forgiveness. He has studied forgiveness for 24 years and examined how cultivating forgiveness, even in environments steeped in violence, poverty, depression and anger, can be a helaing, strengthening force.

Forgiveness: The Missing Piece to the Peace Puzzle

World-renowned UW psychology professor Richard Davidson is searching for the source of happiness, and he has used Buddhist monks in his lab as a model group.

World-renowned UW psychology professor Richard Davidson is searching for the source of happiness, and he has used Buddhist monks in his lab as a model group. Learn what he has discovered about the secrets and brain science of happiness. Professor Davidson was named in Time magazine’s “Time 100, The People Who Shape Our World.” He earned his PhD in 1976 from Harvard University, is a Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and director of both the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior and the Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience.

Transforming the Mind by Changing Your Brain

Join political science Professor David Cannon and Professor Virginia Sapiro as they discuss the 10 most interesting things about the 2006 election, then answer the audience's political questions.

Join political science Professor David Cannon and Professor Virginia Sapiro as they discuss the 10 most interesting things about the 2006 election, then answer the audience's political questions. Professor Canon is an expert in American political institutions, especially Congress, and in race, representation and congressional reform. He also is a co-author of the award-winning 1999 book "Race, Redistricting and Representation." Professor Sapiro’s teaching and research interests include political behavior and political psychology, gender politics, and political and feminist theory. She is the author of The Political Integration of Women: Roles, Socialization and Politics (1983), Women in American Society (3rd edition 2003) and A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft among many other books and articles.

Election Wrap-Up- 2006

When playing video and computer games, kids are actually learning how to be successful in tomorrow’s work force, says Professor David Shaffer.

Don’t take away your child’s or grandchild’s video or computer games just yet. They are actually learning how to be successful in tomorrow’s work force, says Professor David Shaffer. Education must move beyond its “skill and drill” curriculum and embrace creative learning technologies, such as computer and video games, to prepare young people for the world of global competition, he says. Shaffer is exploring the educational potential of games and technology as alternative ways to engage children. At UW-Madison, Shaffer joined with several faculty colleagues, representing three School of Education departments, to form the Games and Professional Practice Simulations Group. This group is part of the Advanced Digital Learning Initiative to study and build learning systems that use digital game technologies to immerse students in worlds where they use the skills and values of professionals to solve complex problems.

The Educational Power of Computer Games

Learn how just 15 minutes of sunlight a day can change your life.

Learn how just 15 minutes of sunlight a day can change your life. Learn too how it may reduce the risk of getting various cancers, the flu, diabetes, heart disease and autoimmune diseases. Hector DeLuca is the Harry Steenbock Research Professor in the UW-Madison Department of Biochemistry and an internationally recognized pioneer in vitamin D research. He is putting vitamin D in the forefront of the state of Wisconsin’s biotech sector, churning out papers and patents to combat a long list of illnesses. Professor DeLuca is a founder of Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is developing drugs based on vitamin D compounds to treat osteoporosis and other ailments.

Vitamin D: The Wonder Drug of Tomorrow

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