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May 16, 2000

Top actress Hagen to lead student drama workshops
Tony Award-winning actress Uta Hagen plans to do a workshop for UW–Madison students during her visit this week to accept an honorary degree. Up to 200 people may watch Hagen work with students on monologues and scenes during the session, 12-2 p.m. Friday, May 19, in Mitchell Theatre, Vilas Hall.

Hagen made her stage debut in the Bascom Hall Theatre in 1935. Hagen was rewarded with Tonys for her work in Clifford Odet’s “The Country Girl” and Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Hagen is the daughter of Oskar Hagen, who founded the UW Department of Art History and chaired it for 22 years. She studied at the university.

Event information: 263-3354.

Comedian urges humor as a healing strategy
Comedian Mary McBride will be the featured speaker for the kickoff of Cancer Survivors Week May 30-June 3 at the Comprehensive Cancer Center.

A breast cancer survivor, McBride will share her personal stories and anecdotes in “Humor, A Healing Strategy,” a free event Tuesday, May 30, 2-3 p.m., G5/119 Auditorium at UW Hospital. Information: 263-1677.

Tours planned for natural areas
Tours of the cultural history and features of campus natural areas are planned Saturday mornings in May, June and July.

Here are the events, times and meeting places scheduled so far:

  • Saturday, June 17: Graduate student Jon West will lead a walk and discuss watershed limnology. 10 a.m., Limnology Garden, east end of the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path.
  • Saturday, July 8: Ann Waidelich of Historic Madison, Inc., will lead a walk from Observatory Hill to Willow Creek and discuss the history of the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association on the UW–Madison campus. 10 a.m., Observatory Hill.

Additional tours are being scheduled for August, September and October. The Physical Plant Department and the Arboretum manage the campus natural areas. Information: 265-9275, or visit: http://www.ies.wisc.edu/cna/.

Poverty lecture May 23
Angus S. Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and an economics professor at Princeton University, will discuss “Poverty, Inequality and Mortality” in the Robert J. Lampman Memorial Lecture, Tuesday, May 23, 5:30-7 p.m., 313 Pyle Center.