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Faculty, staff urged to talk to students about safety
UW–Madison is engaging in an effort to raise student awareness around safety issues in response to a series of a violent late-night attacks and robberies.
WARF launches new programs for promising compounds
In conjunction with the Keck-UW Comprehensive Cancer Center Small Molecule Screening Facility (SMSF), the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is launching a new initiative for assay development and small-molecule screening.
WAA seeks nominations for Distinguished Alumni Awards
The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) is calling for nominations for its top honors, the Distinguished Alumni Award and Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Since 1936, WAA has presented the awards to the most prestigious graduates of UW–Madison.
Academy holds Middle East series
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters will hold the weekly lecture series “Understanding the Middle East”this fall, intended to shed light on the problems of the Middle East and examine possible solutions.
Save the date for Plan 2008 forum
All faculty and staff are encouraged to “save the date” for UW–Madison’s seventh annual Diversity and Climate Campus Forum to be held on Thursday, Sept. 21, at Memorial Union.
Achoo! Pollen counter measures what’s making you sneeze
At 8 a.m. four days a week, from March to November, Rose Vrtis hikes up four flights of stairs to the roof of the Clinical Science Center.
Junior receives society’s inaugural scholarship
As the inaugural recipient of the Bascom Hill Society Scholarship, Sara Sadek knows she has a lot of high expectations awaiting her. But a look at her academic and personal achievements suggests she’ll exceed any benchmarks that are set.
Spotlight: Wisconsin Welcome
Photos by Michael Forster Rothbart New faculty members, including (left to right) Lisa Alexander, Christina Ewig and…
Recent Sightings
Eye on the weather Tim Olander, a research scientist with UW–Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, is portrayed with…
Book Smart
Dick Ringler and “Beowulf” go back a long time — maybe not the entire 1,000-plus years of the epic poem’s existence, but a substantial…
Innovative course helps hip hop into the classroom
On Wall Street, maybe, it’s better to let the game come to you. In other settings, it might be best to go right in after the game.
Concerts, events mark Johansen centennial year
Johansen joined the UW–Madison faculty in 1939 as the nation’s first musical artist-in-residence. This year marks the centennial of Johansen’s birth in Denmark, and the School of Music will commemorate the occasion with a weekend of events honoring Johansen’s memory and achievements.