Almanac

Pollard to chair Partners in Giving campaign
Jamie Pollard, deputy athletics director for the Wisconsin Division of Intercollegiate Athletics, has been appointed campus chair for the Partners in Giving campaign that benefits more than 300 nonprofit organizations locally, regionally and nationally.

Formerly known as the State Employees Combined Campaign, it raised more than $2.6 million in 2003. UW–Madison has participated annually for 30 years in this communitywide workplace campaign.

Pollard served as one of 10 individuals on the University Coordinating Committee. Under Pollard’s leadership, the athletics department doubled its number of participants, and contributions from athletics increased by 78 percent.

Dollard joins health services
Pamela Dollard has joined University Health Services as human resources manager. She comes to UHS from the Wisconsin Department of Justice, where she served since 1998 as a senior human resources specialist. Prior to that, she held progressively responsible positions in several agencies, including the Department of Natural Resources, the state historical society and the Department of Employee Relations.

Cancer center director named
George Wilding was named director of the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center after a national search. The appointment is effective immediately. Wilding, 51, was appointed acting director of the center in November 2002, upon the resignation of John Niederhuber, director from 1997 to 2002.

Wilding has served since 1998 as the center’s associate director for clinical research programs, which conduct more than 200 clinical research trials each year. From 1995 to 2003, he directed the UWCCC Experimental Therapeutics Program, which seeks to identify new anti-cancer agents in the laboratory and translate them into clinical treatments with human patients. The program’s clinical trial of Endostatin drew international attention and was highlighted on PBS’s “NOVA” special “Cancer Warrior,” which was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Cancer center to be built
A state-of-the-art cancer treatment center to be known as UW Cancer Center-Johnson Creek will be built between Madison and Milwaukee, south of the junction of Interstate 94 and Highway 26, and south of the Johnson Creek Outlet Mall.

A joint project among Fort HealthCare, UW Health and Watertown Memorial Hospital, and affiliated with the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Johnson Creek site will feature a 13,500-square-foot facility. Groundbreaking is expected to take place in April with completion by early 2005.

Backward glance
From Wisconsin Week of Feb. 16, 1994: Campus mourns the death of beloved cancer and AIDS researcher Howard Temin. Temin, who died of lung cancer, received a share of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his revolutionary work in molecular biology. Reacting to the news, Chancellor David Ward writes: “Science has lost one of its leading lights. Wisconsin has lost a friend and a man whose many accomplishments brought distinction and honor to this university.” … Students prepare to choose between the Associated Students of Madison and the Wisconsin Badger Association as their new student governance body. For the first time voters can cast ballots by computer. … Faculty Senate terms are extended to three years.