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Seats Remain for Stones Concert
Good seats are still available for the Oct. 6 Rolling Stones concert at Camp Randall Stadium. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster outlets for… Read More
San Jose Business Editor Returns Home
Peter Hillan, executive business editor of the San Jose Mercury News and former UW–Madison student and Wisconsin State Journal editor, will serve as this semester's business writer in residence at UW–Madison Sept. 29-Oct. 3. Read More
Arboreal Self-Defense
Deploying high concentrations of an aspirin-like compound as a chemical defense, some aspen trees are capable of spoiling the voracious appetites of gypsy moth caterpillars, one of the world's most feared forest insect pests. Read More
Packed Career Fair a Boon for Graduating Engineers
With engineers and computer scientists in high demand, Career Connection 97 attracted 150 companies to come to campus this year. Read More
The End of the World As They Know It
Participants in an international symposium, 'Waiting in Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium,' will investigate what lessons we might draw from the past and their implications for the coming age Sept. 21-24. Read More
Elders Headlines Distinguished Lecture Series
M. Joycelyn Elders, pediatric endocrinologist and former U.S. surgeon general, will address 'Health Care in the 21st Century' Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m., in the Wisconsin Union Theater as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Read More
UW Press Marks 60-Year Imprint on Research Publishing
The University of Wisconsin Press celebrates 60 years of publishing regional, general interest and scholarly books. Read More
Professor’s Video To Debut at Historical Society
A new video tracing “Signs, Symbols and Scripts: Origins of Written Communication and the Birth of the Alphabet” will premiere at a free public… Read More
‘Feeling Good’ Author To Speak on Campus
Best-selling author and mental health scholar David D. Burns will give a free lecture at the Memorial Union Tuesday, Sept. 16 on 'feeling good about yourself.' Read More
Chadbourne seeks to ‘change the culture’ of campus life
This semester marks the beginning of an ambitious experiment in residence hall life, the Chadbourne Residential College. The idea upon which it is built: that living is learning, and the residence hall can be a form of classroom. Read More
UW Community to Particpate in ‘Day of Caring’
More than 300 UW–Madison students, faculty, staff and administrators have volunteered their services during a 'Day of Caring' Sept. 13. Read More
Sharks Without Bites: Loan Advisers Find Cooperative Approach Keeps Default Rate Low
Lueck and his team of eight student-loan advisors work with former students and graduates who have trouble paying back the student loans they took out from UW–Madison. Read More
Plants in Space: Wisconsin Seeds First To Sprout From Stock Grown on Mir
The seeds of a tiny, rapidly growing mustard plant, born in space aboard the troubled space station Mir, have sprouted in space, completing a critical first step toward the goal of raising multiple generations of plants in space. Read More
Wisconsin’s Economy Outshines Nation’s, Study Finds
Real personal income growth in Wisconsin in the 1990s surpassed the rate of growth in the nation by 24 percent, according to a study by Jon Udell, the Irwin Maier Professor of Business at the UW–Madison School of Business. Read More
Lecture Series Considers How To ‘Go Beyond Violence’
The need to “go beyond violence” has become an international rallying cry … but how exactly might we do that? Seven UW–Madison faculty members… Read More
E. Coli Genome Reported: Milestone of Modern Biology Emerges From Laboratory of Genetics
A team of scientists headed by Frederick Blattner of the E. coli Genome Project in the Laboratory of Genetics at UW–Madison has determined the complete genome sequence of the E. coli bacterium, it was reported in the Sept. 5 issue of the journal Science. Read More
French Prints Make American Debut at Elvehjem
More than 170 booklets, broadsheets, pamphlets and other materials bearing the prints of Epinal of the French printer Pellerin will make their American debut Sept. 6-Nov. 30 at the Elvehjem Museum of Art. Read More
Fluno Gift Launches Executive Education Center
Jere and Anne Fluno, Lake Forest, Ill., have made a gift of $3 million to help the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business build an executive education center in downtown Madison. Read More
Freshman class among biggest, brightest on record
One of the biggest and brightest freshman classes ever begins its college education today. Read More