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Vet tech’s knowledge helps malamutes embark on show careers
Helen Schultz, a technician for more than 20 years in the School of Veterinary Medicine, has been showing malamutes since 1977 with her first dog, Avalanche.
Festival celebrates political filmmakers
Filmmaker Saul Landau's films will be featured at the Sixth Annual CineFest Film Festival Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 24-26. "The Landau Legacy with Special Guest Haskell Wexler: Films from the Americas and Beyond," is a three-day extravaganza of documentary and politically charged filmmaking, which will take place on campus and in the Madison community.
Student inventors to compete during Innovation Days
Undergraduate student inventors will display medical devices, collapsing stools, water filters, a fishing lure, a device to walk on water and more inspired ideas in the Engineering Centers Building during the annual Innovation Days competition scheduled for Thursday-Friday, Feb. 10-11.
Brookings scholar to speak on U.S.-European relations
Philip Gordon, director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, will speak at a pair of Madison events on Wednesday, Feb. 9.
Scientific heart of giant telescope comes together
In the spring of 2005, when the new Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) trains its huge eye on the southern sky for the first time, the starlight it gathers will be parsed and analyzed by an instrument more befitting a space-based telescope than a ground-based monster.
Lambs at rest hint at origin of growth spurts, pains
It has been evident to parents since time immemorial: Children, during their active growth years, gain stature in spurts, often overnight.
For the Record
Announcements Free ESL classes offered The English as a Second Language Program is offering free English communication classes to adult nonstudent members of…
Milestones
Appointed Three UW–Madison staff were appointed to serve on committees for the Central Association of College and University Business Officers, which encourages professional…
Recent sightings
A moment in history Silhouetted against a large-screen TV in the Memorial Union’s Rathskeller, a student watches news coverage of…
‘In My View’ reveals art’s influence
How does art influence a physicist, a physician, a geographer? Showing that art reaches across disciplines and inspires people of all professions is the goal of a lecture series at the Elvehjem Museum of Art called "In My View."
Book Smart
Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics; Tejumola Olaniyan
Business degrees from public universities appeal to corporations
There’s more evidence that America's largest corporations increasingly look to public business school graduates to fill top leadership roles.
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