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Windows close, services open
After 38 years and tens of thousands of students served, the Office of the Registrar recently ended window service in Peterson Office Building. To streamline services, those of the final window, Window 24, have now been merged into the office's customer service center in Room 123.
Consider leading a FIG
Faculty members seeking ways to improve the transcultural skills of undergraduates and make a difference in retention should consider leading a First-Year Interest Group next year.
Fish to lead facilities planning and management
Alan R. Fish, an administrator with more than 23 years of experience with UW–Madison and the State of Wisconsin, has been selected as the university's new associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management, Chancellor John Wiley announced today (Tuesday, Nov. 19).
Students partner with Oakwood
A new partnership between the School of Human Ecology and the Oakwood Village Retirement Communities is enabling students of interior design to help Oakwood evaluate its newest facility this semester.
Sightings
Got storage? The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) sure does. Housed in a secure facility, an IBM Enterprise Storage Server —…
Adventurous learning
For most of us, a typical vacation does not include sleeping on the floor of a preschool classroom, digging fence-post holes or washing stacks of dishes. Yet two groups of students and alumni had the chance to do all this — and more — during a summer week of labor, laughter and learning spent volunteering on the Blackfeet Reservation in the far northwestern corner of Montana.
Educator explores better K-12 schools
An address by Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University professor of education, will highlight the School of Education's annual celebration of American Education Week.
Study finds options to slow resistance to Bt corn
According to a study published in the current issue (Nov. 1, 2002) of the journal Ecology Letters, the current federally backed strategy to slow resistance to the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin could be altered to permit the normal application of pesticides to crop refuges without risking the overall resistance prevention strategy.
Panel tackles the hidden effects of prison spending
On Nov. 20, from 5-7 pm, in the Memorial Union, a panel of Madison-area activists and professionals will discuss the issue of increased state spending on prisons and how youth, people of color, residents of rural communities, and others feel the impact.
Parallel Press releases Feraca poetry collection
Madison-area poet, essayist and public radio host Jean Feraca examines the complexities of relationships, and the illness and death of her mother in a recently published collection of poetry, "Rendered into Paradise."
Skywatchers brace for a storm of meteors
If astronomers' predictions are correct - and if Wisconsin gets a break from its chronically cloudy November weather - skywatchers will be in for a rare treat next Tuesday, Nov. 19, as the annual Leonid meteor shower has been upgraded to a show of stormy proportions.
Fall faculty dance concert ‘bound’ to please
New York choreographer Heidi Latsky freely admits to being fearful ever since Sept. 11. To allay those fears, she did what she does best - she made a dance. Bound, the group work she created to help transform fear into positive energy, will be showcased in the UW Fall Faculty Dance Concert Nov. 21-23. Curtain time is 8 p.m. in the Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.
Registrar finalists named for UW–Madison
The university has narrowed the field of candidates for university registrar to four finalists.
Human rights leader to lecture
Internationally recognized human rights leader Mary Burton will speak on "Aspects of Reconciliation: Acknowledgement, Atonement and Redress" at 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Pyle Center.
New study open to men with advanced prostate cancer
Men with advanced prostate cancer that has become resistant to hormone therapy may be candidates for a new research study that seeks to determine whether a Vitamin D-like compound known as Hectoral enhances the impact of a chemotherapy treatment commonly known as Taxotere¨.
Meningococcal disease likely cause of student death
A 20-year-old male UW–Madison student died Tuesday morning at Meriter Hospital from probable meningococcal disease.
Film festival features Brazil
Brazilian cinema will be spotlighted along with films from Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the United States during CineFest Nuestra America: "Viva o Brasil," which runs Thursday, Nov. 14, through Sunday, Nov. 17.
Stories help ‘to make sense of our lives’
A new series sponsored by the Center for Humanities explores the use of stories in teaching and learning.
A spellbindery tale
Walk into Memorial Library. Find a call number on the chart inside the elevator and ride up to a floor. Go to the stacks and ÷ voilˆ! ÷ there are books about the very subject you seek. It's simple, really, and it's what we expect of our libraries. But what it takes to get those books on those shelves is anything but simple.
Liu named director of Center for Climatic Research
Zhengyu Liu, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and environmental studies, has been appointed director of the Center for Climatic Research.