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Childhood obesity expert to speak
A national expert on childhood obesity Susan L. Johnson of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, will be in Madison Thursday-Friday, Nov. 6-7.
Milestones
Honored Football coach Barry Alvarez has been named the North team head coach for The Villages Gridiron Classic College All-Star Game. Mark…
New humanities fellowship supplements sabbatical
The Institute for Research in the Humanities calls for applications for a new sabbatical fellowship to commence in academic year 2004-05. The fellowship will supplement a senior faculty member's sabbatical salary to bring it to a full 100 percent.
‘Last Supper’ dishes out food for thought
Richard Gough is the interdisciplinary artist in residence this semester, and his medium and artistic subject is, in fact, food and our relationship to it, especially in connection with the performance of cooking, he says.
Almanac
Kites on Ice to occupy Lake Mendota, Memorial Union Madison’s popular mid-winter festival Kites on Ice is moving to Lake Mendota and the…
Capitol Capsules
JCOER OKs raises for UW The Joint Committee on Employment Relations approved Oct. 21 the recommendations of Karen Timberlake, director of the Office…
KINO filmmakers here for ‘Wis-kino’ anniversary
Wisconsin filmmakers up to the challenge are invited by a group of Montreal filmmakers to make a film in 48 hours.
Father encourages son as he starts NBA career
Excuse Arnold "Clyde" Gaines if he seems a little distracted over the next few weeks. Basketball season just got under way, and his mind has been elsewhere ÷ with his son, on a court 1,300 miles to the southeast, to be exact.
Kulcinski values opportunities campus has given
Professor Gerald Kulcinski, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering, counts five times that UW–Madison has transformed him, and those events compel him to contribute to coming generations.
Event links American Indians to health professions
Connecting Native American college students to health and sciences professions, and informing non-Native American health-science students about issues related to Native American health are the goals of a half-day symposium on Friday, Nov. 7, at the Pyle Center.
Educators ponder teaching biology as a scientific enterprise
Supported by the National Research Council, a pilot for a new and improved model of instruction for the large undergraduate biology classroom, will be taught in Madison in the summer of 2004
Employee Matters
Income continuation insurance basics
Five years later, stem cells still tantalize
The fifth anniversary of biologist James Thomson's report that stem cells could be isolated, cultured and grown in apparently limitless quantities was marked Oct. 27 with a news conference in Washington, D.C.
Discovery provides reminder of bacteriology prof
A small supply of oligomycin found in Fred Hall serves as a reminder of one of the Bacteriology Department's most esteemed scientists of the past, Elizabeth McCoy.
‘Webinar’ Session looks at campus plan
A national live Web seminar ÷ a webinar ÷ will feature UW–Madison's approach to campus planning on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1:30-3:10 p.m.
Recent Sightings
Family practice Midwife Ann Rifenberg, service director of the UW Health midwifery program, second from left, helps Alena, 1, and…
Free Tay-Sachs screening offered
A free blood-test screening for Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal degenerative disorder, will be offered from Wednesday, Nov. 19, 11-5 and Thursday, Nov. 20, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. in UW–Madison's Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
Financial adviser Kilmark to speak at banquet
Financial adviser Constance Kilmark will provide the keynote address at a banquet sponsored by the UW–Madison School of Human Ecology and the Financial Occupations Club for Undergraduate Students on Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Concourse Hotel, 1 W. Dayton St.
Wiley issues statement on Halloween weekend disturbance
Chancellor John Wiley released a statement expressing his disappointment and frustration with the small minority of students — estimated at 500 or so — who ruined the Halloween celebration "for this year, and very likely, for many years to come."