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Senior associate athletic director will resign
Cheryl Bailey, a member of the Athletic Department's management structure since 1990, announced April 8 that she is resigning her position as senior associate athletic director as of Aug. 31 to pursue other professional opportunities. Read More
Backward Glance
From Wisconsin Week of April 19, 1995 Read More
Film graduate program plans symposium honoring Bordwell
The graduate program in film is hosting a major symposium in honor of David Bordwell. Read More
Female scientists respond to Harvard president
Responding to ill-fated remarks made in January by Harvard University's president, four UW researchers will on Thursday, April 14, discuss the scientific evidence behind Lawrence Summers' claim that fewer women reach the highest tiers of science due to an "intrinsic aptitude" difference between the sexes. Read More
Elvehjem features Indian miniatures
Indian miniature gouache paintings collected by UW alumna Jane Werner Watson will be on exhibit at the Elvehjem Museum of Art. Read More
UW-Madison to honor 10 faculty for teaching excellence
Each year, UW–Madison recognizes teaching excellence among its faculty in the form of Distinguished Teaching Awards. Read More
For the record
Announcements Subjects sought for twin study Opposite-sex twin pairs are needed for a research study involving sensory testing consisting of exposure to… Read More
Milestones
Honored Abbie Loomis, Library Information and Literacy Instruction coordinator, received the 2005 Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians Information Literacy Award. Loomis was a… Read More
Employee Matters
This column is prepared by staff of the Employee Compensation and Benefits Services office. You may e-mail us at Employee@bussvc.wisc.edu, or call Employee… Read More
Scientific American’s editor named writer in residence
Mariette DiChristina, the executive editor of Scientific American, will visit the university as the spring 2005 Science Writer in Residence. Read More
Student entrepreneurs preparing for competition
A competition showcasing student entrepreneurs' innovative business ideas - ranging from devices that can save firefighters' lives in blazing buildings to making online transactions more secure - will kick off on Friday, April 15. Read More
Students power new humanities journal
Nearly 400 article submissions later, "Illumination" is set for its debut. The premier issue of UW–Madison's undergraduate-produced journal of the humanities will be out late this month, with an accompanying Web site. Read More
Strong link seen between Chlamydia and heart attack
Certain Chlamydia infections - the kind that cause flu-like respiratory symptoms in thousands of people each year - can be clearly linked to serious heart attacks in relatively young men, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin Medical School researchers and their collaborators at Johns Hopkins University schools of medicine and public health. Read More
High schools students flock to World Languages Day April 14
High school students and teachers from across the state will sample the 60 languages taught at UW–Madison on Thursday, April 14, during the fourth annual World Languages Day (WLD). Read More
Grad students organize Mesoamerican exhibit
About 10 years ago, a Mexican elder passed along a section of an 1847 map of what is today New Mexico to Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales, now graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Three faculty receive Guggenheim Fellowships
Three professors at UW–Madison have received 2005 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, a New York organization devoted to furthering the development of scholars and artists. Read More
Alumnus Bogdanich wins Pulitzer Prize
Walt Bogdanich, a reporter and editor for The New York Times and a 1975 political science graduate from UW–Madison, has won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Read More
Wiley: Progress, collaboration on licensing must continue
UW-Madison administrators and members of the Labor Licensing Policy Committee (LLPC) have collaborated to move the institution to the forefront of collegiate efforts to curb sweatshop abuses, Chancellor John D. Wiley reports at a media briefing today (April 7). Read More
Four faculty members honored with Hilldale Awards
Four faculty members are recipients of the 2005 Hilldale Awards, which annually recognize excellence in teaching, research and public service. Read More