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International outreach conference to examine best practices
Wisconsin’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Elizabeth Burmaster, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Title VI and Fulbright-Hays National Outreach Conference, as world studies outreach specialists from across the nation come together April 27-29 in Madison.
Burrill competition to focus on security, sustainable energy issues
From sustainable energy sources for developing countries to affordable unmanned aerial security vehicles, student entrepreneurs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are creating solutions for today's most challenging problems.
University Theatre plumbs artistic price of success in season finale
Donald Margulies’ Obie Award-winner “Sight Unseen”will wrap the University Theatre season, with performances Thursday-Saturday, April 20-22 and 27-29.
Pro Arte Quartet promises ‘unruly’ concert fare
A premiere of Tamar Diesendruck’s third string quartet promises quite a wild evening for fans of UW–Madison’s Pro Arte String Quartet.
‘Official Muslim Comedy Tour’ seeks to educate, entertain
Following the principle that entertainment is one of the most effective educational tools, “Allah Made Me Funny: The Official Muslim Comedy Tour” will butt heads (figuratively speaking, of course) with bias, intolerance and other social ills in a performance at UW–Madison on Friday, April 21.
Kat Trio to perform at Waisman Center benefit
The Kat Trio will present classical and American standards in a benefit concert for the Waisman Center at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 21, in the center’s auditorium.
Milestones
Honored College Library Director Carrie Kruse has won a 2006 Association of College and Research Libraries Women’s Studies Section Award for Significant Achievement…
UW-Madison honors Academic Staff Award winners
In recognition of outstanding leadership, public service, research, teaching and overall excellence, eight UW–Madison professionals have been honored with the 2006 Academic Staff Excellence Awards.
WAA honors 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients
Two milestones will be set at this year’s Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award program.
Writer’s Choice
Arts faculty, staff to headline in spring dance, opera performances
Recent sightings
Glimpsing the Galapagos Jars of infant giant tortoises are stored in a cabinet at the UW Zoological Museum. The specimens…
Transportation changes ahead for 2006-07
On-campus parking rates will rise slightly, a free new campus bus route will be added, and moped drivers for the first time will be required to display a $55 annual parking permit, officials said in rolling out transportation changes for 2006-07.
All the world’s a stage for Jonathan Zarov
Between acts and activism, Jonathan Zarov somehow manages to work full time as student services coordinator for University Health Services.
Five Questions With…
Brett Nemke is a senior research specialist in the Comparative Orthopedic Research Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine. The lab works with bone remodeling and joint…
Cluster-hiring initiative shows signs of delivering on its promise
Seven years ago, UW–Madison outlined a bold new hiring experiment: the “cluster hiring initiative.”Now that new initiative is beginning to produce a formidable track record of accomplishments, which are detailed in a comprehensive online progress report launched in April for the cluster hiring steering committee.
Food, literature transform cultures in UW–Madison research
Associate Professor of English Rebecca Walkowitz says that you can draw countless parallels between the importance of both food and literature as instigators and vehicles of cultural and social evolution. And so she will at a public discussion at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25, at the downtown public library.
Teachers, metalsmiths to be honored in retrospective
A tribute to master metalsmiths Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty, now retired, will open at the Chazen Museum of Art on Saturday, April 29.
L&S announces annual awards
Gary Sandefur, dean of the College of Letters and Science, has announced the winners of the 2005-06 College of Letters and Science Academic Staff Excellence Awards, Advising Awards and Classified Staff Excellence Awards.
Arts faculty, staff, students selected as 2006 award recipients
An interpreter of created space, a composer, a theater director, a museum curator of education and a furniture designer will be honored with arts awards at UW–Madison this month.