Calendar highlights

WAA’s Cabinet 99 events to showcase technology
Women from around the country will have a chance Friday, Nov. 3, to participate in hands-on demonstrations as part of a symposium, “Women in Technology: High Tech+Bio Tech=Women Tech.”

Cabinet 99, the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s women’s initiative, will host events and experiments, including extracting DNA from wheat germ, manipulating computer generated genetic models, and learning about transgenic plants and animals. Participants will work and interact with leading women researchers in the Genetics-Biotechnology Center, a state- of-the-art facility.

Other highlights of the daylong program include networking and a luncheon with keynote speaker Joan Edelman Spero, who heads the $1.3 billion Doris Duke charitable foundation.

To register: 265-8768; HeidiZoerb@uwalumni.com. Or register online: http://www.uwalumni.com/c99symposium.

Starker returns to Union Theater
Virtuoso cellist Janos Starker will perform Friday, Oct. 27, at the Wisconsin Union Theater as part of the 81st Annual Concert Series.

Starker first performed at the Union Theater as part of the 41st Annual Concert Series in February 1961.

Starker began his study of the cello in his native Budapest at age 6 and was performing in public by the time he was 11. In 1958, he joined the faculty of the School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington and has pursued an international solo career since that time.

Tickets: $29 ($28 for Union members and $14 for UW–Madison students), Union Theater Box Office, 262-2201.

Homecoming lights up Madison-area residences
One of the new Badger Homecoming events this year is “Lite Up the Town,” an outdoor lighting competition, which begins Wednesday, Oct 11, with judging on Tuesday, Oct. 17.

Madison-area residents have been invited to decorate the exterior of their residences in an expression of Badger pride and the “Madtown Mardi Gras” Homecoming theme.

The event is an effort to encourage community participation in the week-long Homecoming celebration and a new twist on an old tradition. Many years ago, fraternities and sororities decorated their houses on Langdon Street for Homecoming.

Information: Andrew Burch or Erika Fehrenbach, 265-2731.