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UW-Madison hosts 2012 Lorraine Hansberry Symposium

February 27, 2012

As part of the 2012 Lorraine Hansberry Project, honoring the life and pioneering work of a UW–Madison alumna who made lasting contributions to American arts and culture, a free symposium will take place on Saturday, March 3, in Vilas Hall’s Mitchell Theatre. The symposium, “Conversations on African-American Youth and August Wilson’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’” is presented in conjunction with the Hansberry Project’s production of Wilson’s play. Read More

Celebrating music from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula

February 27, 2012

The School of Music's piano department, in association with the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies program, is staging "Carnival: Celebrating Music from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula" on Saturday, March 3 at noon in Morphy Recital Hall. Read More

Observatory Drive reopens to westbound traffic on Feb. 25

February 24, 2012

As scheduled, Observatory Drive between Charter Street and Babcock Drive will be reopened to one-way traffic westbound on Saturday, Feb. 25. Read More

Recent Sightings: Homage to Bucky

February 24, 2012

Taking advantage of freshly fallen snow — which has been unusually sparse this winter — an unknown artist creates Bucky Badger on Bascom… Read More

Bringing the Yiddish past to life: A tour through the Mayrent Collection

February 24, 2012

The Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries will celebrate the Mayrent Collection at a special event at the University Club, 803 State St., on Thursday, March 1 at 4:30 p.m. Read More

Growing demand creates opportunities, challenges for Wisconsin organic agriculture

February 23, 2012

Sales of organic food continue to rise despite the economic downturn, and that bodes well for Wisconsin, which has experienced dramatic growth in that sector since the enactment of the National Organic Program in 2002, notes a new report on Wisconsin organic agriculture. Read More

HR Design Project forums, Web chat seek feedback from campus community

February 23, 2012

The Human Resources Design Project will be hosting two forums during the week of Feb. 27 to offer a status report and gather input from employees regarding the campus-wide effort to build a new, more effective University of Wisconsin–Madison personnel system. Read More

From Adam’s housecat to zydeco: After five decades, Dictionary of American Regional English completed

February 23, 2012

What is a Maine-born doctor to do when a patient in Pennsylvania complains, “I’ve been riftin’ and I’ve got jags in my leaders?” Consult the Dictionary of American Regional English to learn that the patient has been belching and experiencing sharp pains in his neck. After nearly five decades of work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the fifth volume of the dictionary, covering Sl to Z, is now available from Harvard University Press. Read More

WisCEL: New learning center to open

February 23, 2012

At two UW–Madison libraries, newly remodeled instructional spaces ripe with technological upgrades are helping turn the 1,000-year-old, lecture-based, "one-size-fits-all" instructional model upside down. Read More

Exploring interfaces between science, humanities

February 23, 2012

The semester-long, $2,500 Emerging Interfaces Awards were created as a way to explore the different ways thinkers in the humanities and sciences approach discovery. Read More

Hunger Meal to raise awareness of social inequality and poverty

February 23, 2012

At the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Hunger Meal, sponsored by students from the La Follette School of Public Affairs, whether you get a gourmet dinner, rice and beans, or something in between will be determined the same way many receive their lot in life: by chance. Read More

UW Men’s Golf Club seeks more players in its 47th year

February 23, 2012

Phillip Hellmuth is the last man golfing, so to speak. The 74-year-old is the only charter member left of the UW Men’s Golf Club which was started 47 years ago. Read More

HR Design Project work teams focus on refining the system, seek campus input

February 23, 2012

Taking a system that is more than 150 years in the making back to the drawing board is a massive assignment. Read More

Baumann appointed to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

February 23, 2012

Linda Ciofu Baumann, professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing, has been appointed to a four-year term on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Read More

Surprising diversity at a synapse hints at complex diversity of neural circuitry

February 22, 2012

A new study reveals a dazzling degree of biological diversity in an unexpected place - a single neural connection in the body wall of flies. Read More

Two UW–Madison researchers awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships

February 22, 2012

Two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty are among 126 scientists from around the country who have been awarded prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships. Read More

Campus visits set for business services post

February 21, 2012

Members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison community will have opportunities in the next two weeks to meet and talk with finalists for the position of assistant vice chancellor for business services. Read More

For plastics knowledge, India looks to UW–Madison engineers

February 21, 2012

One of the oldest and most respected polymer engineering research and educational programs in the United States is contributing its expertise to a new plastics university in India. Read More

WSUM marks 10 years of student radio

February 21, 2012

WSUM, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s licensed student radio station, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this week. Read More

Early spring: Good for us, mixed bag for insects, plants

February 21, 2012

Madison’s warm weather may have made the outdoors more comfortable for people, but does it spell trouble for overwintering plants and bugs? Read More