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Alum receives Nobel Prize in physics
Jack St. Clair Kilby, a 1950 masters degree graduate in electrical engineering, has been named a co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics.
Community invited to ‘lite up the town’
Madison-area residents are being invited to decorate the exterior of their residences to express Badger pride and the 'Madtown Mardi Gras' Homecoming theme.
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Primate center grant to boost library resources
The Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center Library will receive a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the National Center for Research Resources to boost the library's staff and resources so that it can more effectively work with the greater primatological research community.
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…
Council ring history comes full circle
The curve seems to come from the heart of the hillside, a line in the landscape that is a both a balm to the eye and a grace note to the hill.
Events Bulletin
Learning History of Medicine – Jubilee Celebration: 1950-2000 Friday, Oct. 27 3-4:30 p.m. University Lecture: 227 Service Memorial Institute, 470…
For the Record
Policies and Procedures International Opportunities Awareness Month Many students on campus, both U.S. and international, are interested in working in an…
Political scientist tracks funding sources
Ken Goldstein, a new political scientist at UW–Madison, is to journalists right now as an epicenter is to seismologists. The media are…
Milestones
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News in Brief
COMMUNITY Alum receives Nobel Jack St. Clair Kilby, a 1950 master’s degree graduate in electrical engineering, has been named a…
Recent sightings
Reflecting on e-commerce A glass door captures real and reflected business professionals perhaps pondering the realities and illusions of electronic…
Charity campaign seeks new “partners in giving’
This fall, the State, University and University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Combined Campaign of Dane County is making a special appeal to new employees and others who have not contributed before, asking them to join the cause.
Library sale offers 15,000 books
More than 15,000 books and a collection of long-playing records will be put on sale in a fund-raiser for the Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries Oct. 25-28.
Final fall enrollment tops 41,000
There are 41,050 students attending the university this fall, the first time since 1992 that the campus has topped 41,000 students.
Time Magazine’s Lemonick to be writer in residence
Michael Lemonick, an award-winning author and a science writer for Time magazine, will be the university science writer in residence for fall 2000.
Thai Pavilion to be located at Olbrich
A tentative agreement involving the university would locate a Thai Pavilion at Olbrich Botanical Gardens on Madison's East Side.
Employee bicycles to remember friend, fight AIDS
To remember an old friend and fight against AIDS, Carol will take part in all five national long-distance AIDS Rides this year.