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Mini-Med School opens
Ever wonder what your doctor learned in medical school? If so, the Medical School's mini-medical school may be for you. Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 17, the free, six-week lecture series will be held Tuesdays, 7-8:30 p.m., Union South.
Hunt to address human rights for Curti lectures
This year's Merle Curti Lectures will be delivered by professor Lynn Hunt of University of California at Los Angeles on 'The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Human Rights' Sept. 16-18 at 4 p.m., Pyle Center.
New learning community opens
A new International Learning Community opens this fall with a German language floor in Adams Hall.
Students enrolled in Wisconsin history course go with the flow
History professor John Sharpless and 16 students journeyed on a four-week expedition from Oshkosh to the mouth of the Wisconsin River by canoe - making for one of the most unconventional and logistically challenging classes at UW–Madison.
Making UW–Madison manageable for first-year students
Freshman interest groups, which operate as mini-learning communities built around a particular theme, are expanding quickly at UW–Madison.
Dual admissions expand
The UW–Madison Connections program, a pilot program unveiled in 2001, has expanded to allow dual admission to students from any UW college.
Plants speed science education
Wisconsin's Fast Plants has blossomed in the last decade into one of the most successful and widely used science education programs in classrooms worldwide.
Humanities forums address evil and ethics
"Evil in the 21st Century: September 11 and Beyond" is the topic of a free public talk by Claudia Card, professor of philosophy at University of Wisconsin–Madison, at 7 p.m, Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Marshall Community Library, 605 Waterloo Road, Marshall.
PEOPLE celebrates results
The incoming freshmen class will include 24 graduates of the PEOPLE Program, the first group of participants to enroll at the university.
Students conduct experiments aboard ‘weightless wonder’
Adding a new spin to the challenges of engineering, a group of students were literally "in over their heads" this past spring when they took part in the NASA-sponsored Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.
Fun with concrete and bad water
More than 1,000 civil engineering students plan to gather this weekend at the university for concrete canoe races, high-speed bridge building and polluted water purification using only common kitchen items.
Study yields new cystic fibrosis findings
A new study of newborn screening for cystic fibrosis has added provocative findings to the complicated picture of early intervention against the disease.
Students to work on voting rights museum, institute
On May 31, UW–Madison students and staff will embark on a journey to Selma to renovate and develop educational projects for the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute.
After the punch line: What jokes tell us
As director of UW–Madison's folklore program, Jim Leary is possibly Wisconsin's best repository of the state's ethnic history and heritage. And he can tell a mean farmer joke. He knows hundreds, gathered from his many travels around the state. Most of them are rare artifacts, plucked from the brains of elderly farmers, tavern owners and townsfolk whom Leary has met over the years. To him, those jokes are to be cherished as much as any fine work of art.
Students develop northern research building design
Future engineers are designing a new, year-round building for environmental instruction and research in northern Wisconsin.
Class to ride the river
About 15 students from UW–Madison and Edgewood College will study Wisconsin history by following the watery path of French explorers this summer.
Spring 2002 commencement – Remarks by Chancellor John Wiley
May 17-19, 2002 A few days ago I sent all of you graduates an e-mail. You’re the first graduating class…
Spring 2002 commencement address – Thomas F. Pyle, Jr.
Sunday, May 19, 2002 Mary Wells Lawrence, the founder and first female CEO of a major advertising agency, Wells, Rich…
Spring 2002 commencement address – Louis A. Holland
Saturday, May 18 This is a very exciting time for me. I’m honored to be here. I’ve done a lot…