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New program takes grassroots approach to training school leaders
Schools across the United States today face more pressure than ever to boost student performance levels and close the gaps in achievement between students of different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. While many schools are struggling to make adequate progress, others have developed strategies that are contributing to significant improvements.
Basketball, hockey up next for network
The Big Ten Network is gearing up for winter sports coverage, even as the network and cable television giants arm wrestle over where the network can be viewed.
Employee Matters
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State approves new employee pay plan
A boost in pay for UW System faculty and academic staff was given the go-ahead by state lawmakers last week.
Administrative Process Redesign moves forward
The campus’s grassroots effort to build better administrative practices and systems is on schedule and preparing to reach out nationally to see how other universities have faced the same challenges.
Settlement prompts heating plant improvements
A legal settlement between the state and an environmental group will result in less coal being burned at the Charter Street Heating Plant and sets the stage for major improvements at the facility.
Family, memories at core of anthropologist’s new book
A UW–Madison anthropologist first decided to write a book about her family when she was 10 years old, a decision she made while growing up in Bombay, the child of an American mother and an Indian father.
For the Record
Wisconsin Week, the newspaper of record for UW–Madison, carries legally required notices for faculty and staff.
Stem-cell discovery a global media force
When a scientific advance is hailed as “the biological equivalent of the Wright Brothers’ first airplane,” it stands to reason that the work will grab worldwide attentionn
Prof guides future generations of female scientists
When Jean Bahr believes in something, she doesn’t hesitate to act.
Katen-Bahensky named president and CEO of UW Hospital and Clinics
Donna Katen-Bahensky, CEO at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and senior associate vice president for medical affairs at University of Iowa Health Care since 2002, has been named president and CEO of University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. She will join the hospital effective Feb. 4, 2008.
Recent sightings: Winter scenes
Bundled for winter weather, pedestrians walk along a snow-covered sidewalk along Park Street. More than five inches of snow fell on the…
Waistline growth on high-carb diets linked to liver gene
Experts have been warning for years that foods loaded with high-fructose corn syrup and other processed carbohydrates are making us fatter. Now, a University of Wisconsin–Madison study has uncovered the genetic basis for why this is so.
Additional efforts assist in managing texbook costs
Numerous efforts are already under way to assist students in managing textbook costs. As part of the Textbook Costs Task Force, the university plans to do more to make students aware of these options.
What lies beneath: Growth of root cells remarkably dynamic, study finds
A new UW–Madison study, publishing online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that certain plant cells pulse as they grow.
Recent sightings: AIDS Memorial Quilt
A roll of red stickers with the shape of an AIDS ribbon fill the foreground as audience members listen to a music…
Recent sightings: Christmas Tree Sale
Members of the UW Forestry Club assist patrons buying Fraser fir, balsam fir and white pine Christmas trees and wreaths during the…