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Veterinary school honored for dairy teaching herd
The School of Veterinary Medicine recently received a 2004 Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection's Division of Food Safety for maintaining outstanding milk quality and commendable farm conditions for more than three years with its dairy teaching herd.
Cook named executive director of Arts Institute
Susan C. Cook, professor of music and director of Graduate Studies at the School of Music, has been named executive director of the University's Arts Institute.
Horse owner seminar to feature flowing, natural riding movement
Better movement can benefit both horse and rider.
Firefighter lifesaving invention wins top innovation days prize
The FireSite, a transmitter/receiver system designed to guide firefighters out of smoke-filled buildings, took the $10,000 top prize in the 2005 Schoofs Prize for Creativity.
Vet tech’s skill helps malamutes embark on show careers
Poor little Quoth is facing a crisis: Her ears are drooping.
Reason named associate director of admissions
Tom Reason has been named associate director of operations in the Office of Admissions.
UW fills up on less-polluting biodiesel mix
The UW–Madison's diesel-burning fleet of vehicles will be the first in Wisconsin to fill its tanks with a blend of ultra-low sulfur diesel and a soybean-based biodiesel fuel in the campus's effort to improve air quality.
Singer, guitarist brings the music of Mali to Union Theater
Malian superstar Habib Koité, "praised by everyone from Joan Baez to Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne," according to the Los Angeles Times, will perform in the Wisconsin Union Theater on Friday, Feb. 18.
Visual culturists track places of memory
Ways in which the concept of memory influences visual culture will be up for discussion at a free University of Wisconsin–Madison colloquium on Friday, Feb. 11, in Room 121, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
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Book Smart
"Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems," Cliff Thurber, professor of geology and geophysics (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005)
Students find ‘green’ possibilities in proposed building designs
Designs for new buildings and adaptive reuse of current structures will receive "green" treatment, courtesy of students in UW–Madison landscape architecture and interior design classes and UW-Milwaukee's programs in architecture and urban planning.
Music faculty to premiere newly commissioned work
"Sojourn" for piano and percussion by Serra Hwang will debut at the hands of assistant professors of music Anthony Di Sanza and Jessica Johnson at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 15, in Mills Concert Hall in the Mosse Humanities Building.
Oscar nominee follows unorthodox rescue of rare camel calf
“The Story of the Weeping Camel,” a Mongolian-made documentary film, recalls efforts to save an abandoned baby camel, a rare white one at that.
Milestones
Honored Caroline Levine, associate professor in the Department of English, will receive the distinguished 2004 Perkins Prize, given by the Society for the…