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Film Festival previews its highlights
Fresh and original independent film, documentaries, world cinema, new media and the work of Wisconsin filmmakers all will be featured this spring at the Wisconsin Film Festival.
Advances
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Almanac
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Calendar highlights
Going Wilde Merlin Holland, the grandson of Oscar Wilde, is giving a lecture Monday, Feb. 5, in Great Hall, Memorial Union, 7:30 p.m.
Capitol capsules
Budget looking lean State Administration Secretary George Lightbourn has requested that state agencies cut spending by 0.5 percent. The Legislative Fiscal…
Events bulletin
Learning International Opportunities Awareness Month February will feature the first International Opportunities Awareness Month, providing students campuswide with a…
For the record
Policies and procedures Benefit Education Sessions Dates and topics upcoming: Feb. 1 Early Career Employees, Benefit Education…
Gallery of Design opens Judaica exhibit
"Tevet to Av: Celebrating Contemporary Judaica" will be on view in the Gallery of Design through March 8.
Milestones
Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail:…
Union plans late-night movie series
Union South is becoming a hotbed of activity on weekends: live music at Club 770; "glow-in-the-dark" bowling, pool and other activities in the Games Room; and now, midnight movies in the Main Lounge.
News in brief
LEADERSHIP Two named to Board of Regents Gov. Tommy G. Thompson plans to appoint his former administration secretary, James R.
Wisconsin artists anchor a print renaissance
The Elvehjem Museum of Art will present an exhibition of 75 prints by artists who have been part of the vibrant print movement on the university campus during the past 40 years.
Instructor: Do as I say – and as I do
Whether it's building her own home, teaching about science or diving out of a plane, Kathy Blomker has a passion for the power of doing.
Recent sightings
Could it be any clearer? The mind of a chemist finds expression on the glass panels of a chemistry lab…
Jane Austen festival planned April 23-29
The Center for the Humanities will present its first Humanities Festival, "Jane Austen in the 21st Century," April 23-29 in venues on campus and around Madison.
What puts the brakes on madly spinning stars?
Keying off new observations, astronomers are turning to an old idea of what puts the brakes on young, rapidly rotating stars, some of which spin so fast that astronomers are amazed they simply don't fly apart.
Lecture focuses on new telescope
The promise of a major new astronomical observatory, the Southern African Large Telescope or SALT, will be the subject of a public lecture Tuesday, Feb. 13.
Prison work fuels professors’ passion for justice
The seeds of social justice were sown early in the lives of clinical associate professors of law Keith Findley and John Pray. Those seeds reaped a huge harvest earlier this month, when Texas convict Christopher Ochoa was exonerated for a rape and murder he did not commit.
Advance makes voting machines easier to use
The Trace Research and Development Center will demonstrate easy-to-use voting machine design techniques Tuesday, Jan. 30, during a Capitol Hill event focused on electronic voting technology.
Foundation supports chemical genomics center
A $1.5 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation will enable the university to establish a center of research for the study and application of chemical genomics, a dynamic new field combining chemistry and molecular biology.