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Learning Music Classes More than a dozen continuing education music classes are offered this semester. Class topics, starting dates: Songwriting, March…
Advances
(Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries by e-mailing: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.)…
University staffers bring home the world
Two university staff members have brought a far-off part of the world right into their homes this year, by hosting foreign high school students through AFS Intercultural Programs.
Newsmakers
(Every week faculty and staff from across campus are featured or cited in newspapers, magazines, broadcasts and other media from around the…
Study examines staff job security
A new job security study indicates the types of appointments granted to academic staff vary widely in departments across campus.
Waisman expands early childhood program
For the first time in more than two decades, the Waisman Early Childhood Program will hold open enrollment for new and expanded early education classes this fall.
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“Smoke Signals” director Sherman Alexie to speak Native American filmmaker Sherman Alexie will speak about “Killing Indians: Myths, Lies and Exaggerations”…
For the Record
Policies and Procedures Annual Spring Pesticide Notice In accordance with the university pesticide policy, applicators are to notify faculty, staff, students…
Photo essay: Snow Day
What a difference a few days makes. It's all melted away now, but back on Feb.18, more than five inches of fresh snow blanketed the university - the second time in a week that heavy snow brought crews to work in the wee hours to clear campus streets, walks and lots.
DNA evidence experts to visit Mar. 1
The UW Law School is sponsoring a visit Wednesday, March 1, by two noted defense attorneys who use DNA evidence to prove the innocence of persons wrongly convicted of crimes.
Rotational grazing triples on state dairy farms
About 23 percent of Wisconsin's dairy farmers used management-intensive rotational grazing last year -- more than triple the seven percent that used rotational grazing in 1993, a UW–Madison survey has shown.
Exercise expert to share insights on youth health
Exercise expert Russell R. Pate will visit campus to discuss the current status of public policies regarding youth physical fitness, the effectiveness of policies implemented in schools, and the implications for current and future teachers.
Choreographer to premiere three new works
'Interplay,' a cross-cultural and multi-media dance concert showcasing works by Jin-Wen Yu, UW–Madison Dance Program assistant professor, will be performed March 2-4 at 8 p.m. in the Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.
MBA Scholarship created for nonprofits
A special Executive Masters of Business Administration scholarship for someone currently working for a Wisconsin non-profit organization has been created at the School of Business by Dean Andrew J. Policano.
New speaker series to explore frontiers of scholarship
From children's literature phenomenon Harry Potter to the regional vagaries of the English language, the range of fair game for modern scholarship continues to grow. A new dinner-lecture series will explore some of the innovations of academic pursuit in three events this spring.
Fluno Center to open March 1
The new Fluno Center for Executive Education, opening Wednesday, March 1, will be one of the premier executive education centers in the nation.
‘Smoke Signals’ director Alexie to speak
Native American filmmaker Sherman Alexie will speak about 'Killing Indians: Myths, Lies and Exaggerations' Thursday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater.
Symposium to honor Robert Kingdon
An international symposium honoring the scholarly legacy of Robert Kingdon, professor emeritus of history at UW–Madison, will explore 'The Frontiers of the Reformation,' Kingdon's scholarly specialty, Feb. 25 and 26.
Gospel group caps Wisconsin Union performance series
The Grammy award-winning Mighty Clouds of Joy, ranked by critics as one of the greatest gospel groups of all time, will close out the 1999-2000 Performance Series at the Wisconsin Union Theater Saturday, Feb. 26, at 8 p.m.
Book: Librarian was an early civil rights activist
The civil rights movement of the '60s was boosted by the bravery of those who had gone before, and Martin Luther King Jr. had a surprising partner from the '40s and '50s: an elderly white librarian in a small Oklahoma town. That librarian is the focus of a new book by Louise Robbins, director of the School of Library and Information Studies.