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Employee Matters
This column by Shari Cnare of Employee Compensation and Benefits addresses campuswide employment issues. Send your questions to: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. What is…
Events Bulletin
Learning Sign up Now for Internet Short Courses These six-week Internet courses begin the second Wednesday of each month…
Milestones
Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail:…
News in Brief
COMMUNITY Medical faculty begin new training program UW Medical School faculty will begin a three-year training to improve how they…
Mathematician’s passions run from marathons to mountains
When she finds herself in one, she tries hard to climb out of it, "it" being that dog-eared feature of daily life called a rut. Of course, like many of us, she delights in some — these ruts are made for wallowing — and feels daunted by others that seem made for mountaineering.
Recent Sightings
Sighting Student Lindsay Theis peers through a survey instrument during a geography class on Bascom Hill taught by professor Jim…
Dean of students: ‘We will be with you’
In the emotional aftermath of Tuesday's presumed terrorist attacks, Dean of Students Alicia Chávez addressed about 1,100 campus community members and others at an interfaith gathering on Library Mall.
Help available
There are no plans to close the university at this time, but university officials are extending whatever help possible to students and staff affected by Tuesday's presumed terrorist attacks.
Longtime Bush-watcher to visit campus
The editor and co-owner of Texas Weekly, the premier newsletter on government and politics in the Lone Star State, will be the campus' first public affairs writer-in-residence, Sept. 24-28.
WiscNet connects Wisconsin schools and Internet 2
WiscNet, Wisconsin's educational, research and governmental Internet network, enables Wisconsin schools to gain access to Internet 2, which will allow users to collaborate and access information in ways not possible using today's Internet. Tele-immersion, virtual laboratories, digital libraries and distributed instruction are just a few examples of Internet 2 applications areas.
Cancer researcher, bioethicist dies at 90
Cancer researcher Van R. Potter, the Hilldale Professor Emeritus of Oncology, died Thursday, Sept. 6. He was 90.
Arrive early on game day
Athletic Department officials say football fans should allow extra time to navigate the construction areas surrounding Camp Randall Stadium.
UW ranks eighth best in nation
The university has been named the eighth-best public university in the 2002 "America's Best Colleges" guidebook published by U.S. News & World Report.
Foreign exchange rate conference set Sept. 28-29
Leading researchers, economists and policymakers from major universities will participate in a landmark foreign exchange rate conference at UW–Madison Sept. 28-29.
With a tweak, flu virus is a killer
By incorporating the slightest change in the arrangement of its molecules, the virus responsible for a brief but frightening influenza outbreak in Hong Kong several years ago can quickly morph from a relatively benign virus to a killer.
Memorandum of understanding
Memorandum of Understanding between WiCell Research Institute, Inc. and Public Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services This Memorandum Of Understanding (hereinafter…
WiCell signs stem cell research agreement
The National Institutes of Health and the WiCell Research Institute, Inc., of Madison announced today, Sept. 5, the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for research use of WiCell's existing five human embryonic stem cell lines.
New learning center to break ground
Events this Friday, Sept. 7, will mark groundbreaking for the Health Sciences Learning Center, a state-of-the-art learning facility for UW students in the health professions.
‘House calls at the edge of the mind’
Oliver Sacks, author of the best sellers 'Awakenings' and 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,' will address the 2001 Chancellor's Convocation at the Kohl Center Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m.
Admissions tops regent agenda
A presentation on admissions policies is among items on the next UW System Board of Regents meeting agenda.