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Student engineering magazine wins national awards
The Wisconsin Engineer magazine won seven awards at the 1998 Engineering College Magazines Association National Convention in Madison.
Graduate School Excellence in Teaching
Graduate School Teaching Assistant award recipients (from left); back row: David Harrison, John Tauer; middle row: David Hanson, Joseph Wong, Eric Benedict; from…
Hilldale Undergraduate Research Awards
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Natural areas need friends
The Friends of the Campus Natural Areas are looking to add to their numbers.
Ward: UW must return to budget radar
Attendees of the May 4 Faculty Senate meeting got a peek at the upcoming debate over the 1999-2001 state budget.
NCAA golf championships play in Madison
Top female collegiate golfers from 19 teams will gather May 20-23 for the 72-hole National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament on the par-72, 6,033-yard University Ridge Golf Course.
Bells will be ringing
No bell worth its clapper will be silent May 29. At least, not in Wisconsin. It's Sesquicentennial Day, and the air will ring from Prairie du Chien to Ashland to De Pere.
Playing to win: Student explores competition at boy’s basketball camp
Competition may be the common fabric of American life, but UW–Madison senior Brigette Wusterbarth finds something lacking in the winner-take-all game.
Let the crosswiring begin
Five proposals have been approved for Chancellor David Ward's new strategic hiring initiative, which promotes creative intellectual links between departments.
UW examines paperless theses
Are we about to enter the era of the paperless thesis at UW–Madison?
Polygon Teaching Awards
Polygon Engineering Council, the engineering college council of student organizations, announced their annual teaching excellence award winners April 26. Undergraduates vote to determine the…
Professor’s book wins biennial prize
A book by Brenda Gayle Plummer, professor of history and Afro-American studies at the UW–Madison, has won the Myrna F. Bernath Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Free shuttle transportation for commencement ceremonies
Students, family members and friends attending any of the five commencement ceremonies this weekend are being encouraged to park in lots 17, 18 or 19 at Camp Randall and ride the convenient Madison Metro shuttle to and from the Kohl Center free of charge.
Commencement ceremonies break in new home
Spring graduates will inaugurate UW–Madison's new Kohl Center as the university's commencement venue. Approximately 4,000 will be eligible for degrees at five ceremonies May 15-17.
Arts Consortium Awards
Their artistic accomplishments span music, outreach, computer art, film, creative writing and dance. The awards they will receive illustrate the power of partnership between…
Sloan fellowships awarded to two faculty
Two UW–Madison faculty members, a physicist and an economist, have been named fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Researchers clarify proteins’ importance for cancer
In back-to-back reports in Science and Cell, researchers at the UW Medical School describe important new data on proteins that detect and repair gene damage.
Pope, Konrad selected Librarians of the Year
Nolan Pope and Lee Konrad have been named the 1998 Librarians of the Year by their peers in the UW–Madison Librarians' Assembly.
Student agricultural marketing team wins national award
UW-Madison's National Agricultural Marketing Association (NAMA) club won the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the second year in a row at the NAMA annual conference April 16 in Dallas.
Student radio a step closer to air
UW-Madison student radio station WSUM hopes to make the leap from the Internet to the airwaves by early 1999, pending construction of its radio tower in southern Dane County.