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Conference to explore high and popular culture
The very symbiotic relationship between haute and popular culture will be examined at a two-day conference on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Read More
Academic Staff Week show uses opportunities to learn, have fun
From art discussions to merengue instructions, events during the School of Education's Academic Staff Week, Monday, Sept. 27-Friday, Oct. 1, will showcase the diverse talents of academic staff members. Read More
African Studies seminars announced
The African Studies Program has announced its series of Sandwich Seminars for the fall semester. Read More
UW Hospital and Clinics installs “smart” intravenous pumps
Sixty percent of the harmful medication errors that occur in hospitals are related to IV infusion pumps. Read More
Official from former CPA in Iraq to visit
William Olson, formerly chief of the Information Management Unit for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad, Iraq, and now with National Defense University, will speak in the Pyle Center Auditorium at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 27. Read More
Two-session seminar focuses on higher-education ethics
The ethical complexities of administrative decision-making in a higher-education setting will be the topic of a two-session course at the Pyle Center, on Thursday, Sept. 30, and Thursday, Oct. 7. Read More
Daily Dose Deli opening
The Wisconsin Union is opening a new deli, the "Daily Dose," in the Health Science Learning Center, on the west end of campus near UW Hospital. The Grand Opening continues through Friday, Sept. 24, with hours from 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Read More
Milner named academic planning and analysis director
Jocelyn Milner has been named director of Academic Planning and Analysis in the Office of the Provost. She succeeds Martha Casey, who retired in 2003. Provost Peter Spear appointed Milner as interim director upon Casey's retirement. Read More
Reilly outlines priorities
In his inaugural address as president of the UW System on Sept. 16, Kevin P. Reilly outlined his immediate priorities for the UW System Board of Regents. Read More
Wisconsin Partnership Fund awards first grants to 20 organizations
The Wisconsin Partnership Fund for a Healthy Future awarded the first round of planning grants for 20 organizations across the state, according to UW Medical School Dean Philip Farrell. Read More
Parallel Press poets to read
Award-winning poets, all from the Madison area, will read from their work on Thursday, Sept. 23. Marilyn Annucci, Harriet Brown, Susan Elbe, Andrea Potos,… Read More
Dance ensemble celebrates Overture Center opening
Three group works and two solos, to be performed on Thursday, Sept. 23, by Li Chiao-Ping Dance, will help celebrate the Overture Center’s grand… Read More
Vocalist acquaints campus with classical Indian music
Sanjay Subrahmanyan will bring classical music from the south of India to campus when he performs Friday, Sept. 24, at 6:30 p.m., Mills Concert Hall. Read More
Employee Matters
What is an Employee Reimbursement Account? Read More
Compositions honor Memorial Library’s anniversary
To commemorate Memorial Library's 50th anniversary, Mills Music Library received a grant to commission five original musical compositions by graduate students David Dies, Scott Gendel, Jerry Hui, Alexander Nohai-Seaman and Pavel Polanco-Safadit, all from the School of Music composition program. Read More
Recent sightings
No lifeguard on duty As summer transitions to fall, Physical Plant carpenters Sandy Thistle, Barry Woodrick and Darrell Endres begin… Read More
UW helps usher in Overture
Named for a former UW–Madison faculty member who died in 1999, the James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences,… Read More
Book Smart
Caroline Levine, associate professor of English, “The Serious Pleasures of Victorian Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt,” University of Virginia Press, 2003. Read More
Wisconsin 24/7
This image of Researchers Vicki Schwantes and Ted Cummings taking depth samples of the water in Lake Mendota is one of… Read More