For the Record

Grants and Fellowships

Lectures Committee Proposals
The Lectures Committee solicits applications from departments, academic programs and registered student organizations for support of lectures during the 2002-03 academic year. Application information and specifications are available at http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/secfac/lectures/lectcomm/General.htm, or contact Joe Farrenkopf, farrenkopf@mail.bascom.wisc.edu, 262-3956.

Kemper K. Knapp Bequest Committee Call for Proposals
The Kemper K. Knapp Bequest Committee is soliciting proposals for special projects taking place in the 2003-04 academic year. The deadline for applications is Monday, Oct. 21. Background information and instructions for submitting applications are available online at http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/secfac/knapp/Call.htm or by contacting the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty, 262-3956.

Announcements

Appointment, Payroll and Benefits System-Lawson Project
APBS-Lawson is the UW System Appointment, Payroll and Benefits System that will be implemented Jan. 1, 2005. Lawson Software of St. Paul, Minn., is providing the human resources information management system that the APBS-Lawson Project Team will implement.

APBS will handle information about human resources management, positions, payroll, fringe benefit enrollment, leave balances, tenure tracking, affirmative action, equal opportunity data collection, employment records and history, emergency contacts, W4 information, automatic deposits, charitable deductions, and payments for goods and services.

For information, see http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/apbs/vision.htm. Learn more about the APBS-Lawson project at http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/apbs. To see the UW–Madison APBS Communication Plan, go to the Web site for the Office of Human Resources at http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/, click on “Human Resource Information Systems” and scroll down to find information about the APBS project.

Carla Raatz, craatz@bascom.wisc.edu, and Richard Laufenberg, rlaufenber@bussvc.wisc.edu, are the institutional contacts.

To subscribe to the APBS-Lawson newsletter, or to read back issues, see http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/apbs/articles.htm.

Information about Lawson software is available at http://www.Lawson.com.

Looking for Scrabble Experts to Participate in Research
Researchers in the Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology are seeking to recruit expert, tournament-level Scrabble players for studies of reading and spelling, and their brain bases.

Participants will be paid. If you are a moderate-to-highly ranked player, please contact M.S. Seidenberg, marks@lcnl.wisc.edu.