Campus news Latest News
Pigment power: Carrots join fight against cancer
Have you ever seen a purple carrot? How about white, yellow, or red? Recent research suggests that pigments in these colorful carrots, which taste just like regular carrots, may help prevent heart disease and cancer, and reduce cholesterol.
Elsewhere
(Elsewhere summarizes developments on other UW System campuses and in the system administration. For more system news, visit: http://www.uwsa.edu/univ_rel/wn.htm.)…
Opera singer Estes plans recital
Opera star Simon Estes has scheduled a Wisconsin Union Theater recital Friday, Feb. 18, at 8 p.m., to perform the Madison premiere of Wisconsin-born composer Lee Hoiby's 'I Have a Dream.'
Events Bulletin
Learning Music Classes More than a dozen continuing education music classes are offered this semester. Class topics, starting dates:…
For the Record
Grants and fellowships International Research and Exchanges Board Administers academic exchange programs for U.S. scholars traveling to Central and Eastern Europe,…
Beating those midwinter blues: Hoofers hit the ice
Hoofers Club members and other Madisonians beat the midwinter blues at the Hoofer Winter Carnival Feb. 5 on the Lake Mendota ice off Memorial Union Terrace.
UW renews public-private fund drive
Continued funding for the Madison Initiative will help provide students an outstanding education and keep Wisconsin competitive in the global economy, university officials say.
Initiative brings early benefits to campus
While the university outlines plans for the next phase of the Madison Initiative, the original investment has already taken shape across campus in a diverse range of projects.
Milestones
Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail:…
Newsmakers
(Every week faculty and staff from across campus are featured or cited in newspapers, magazines, broadcasts and other media from around the…
News in Brief
LEADERSHIP As if hoofing it to class in the cold wasn’t enough, university students feel the burn as they occupy all…
Recent Sightings
Footprints on the snow of time.
Staffer or professor? Job title proposal advances
The Academic Staff Assembly took a first step this week toward creating professor titles for instructional and research academic staff.
Experts share knowledge at ‘Whys and Wows!’
University experts will again team up this winter to bring learning alive for schoolchildren during "Whys and Wows!" at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
Student inventors featured
The bright ideas of university student entrepreneurs will be showcased in Milwaukee Tuesday, Feb. 22, during a program on high-tech business growth in Wisconsin.
Top economists to predict economic outlook
Top economic experts will offer forecasts for 2000-2001 at an executive briefing on campus Friday, March 17.
Highlights of the living wage report
A new report summarizing last fall's Living Wage Symposium calls for the creation of a multi-university partnership, or consortium, to carry out research and pilot projects in several countries related to living wages and workplace monitoring.
Report calls for partnership on living wages, sweatshops
A group of leading universities should partner to conduct research and pilot projects related to living wages and sweatshop issues, recommends a new report summarizing last fall's Living Wage Symposium.
Ward calls for talks on sweatshop task force
Chancellor David Ward on Monday asked the top faculty and academic staff leaders to meet with the head of student government to discuss the structure of the campus sweatshop advisory committee.
Series explore links between art, government
A five-week lecture series on the relationship between art and government kicks off today, Feb. 14, sponsored by the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs.