Shots, prevention encouraged for this year’s flu season
Flu season is under way in Wisconsin, and the university community are encouraged to get vaccinated and practice common sense prevention steps to avoid illness this winter.
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ePICS course offers business, technology assistance to nonprofits
As exam time rolls around, UW-Madison students in the e-Projects in Community Service (ePICS) course won’t be studying textbooks or writing take-home finals. They’ll be presenting their semester’s work to real-world clients, 12 nonprofit organizations for whom students have designed Web sites, built Web-based information systems, created logos, developed marketing materials and produced videos.
Vet school lends a hand in Hurricane Katrina aftermath
Several School of Veterinary Medicine staff members volunteered their time for Hurricane Katrina relief.
Alumna’s film scheduled for Madison showing
“Side Effects,” an independent film written, directed and produced by UW-Madison alumna Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, is returning to Madison for a Friday, Dec. 9-Sunday, Dec. 11, premiere at the Marcus Westgate Art Cinemas.
Synchrotron Radiation Center launches new Web site
In an effort to offer easy access to research-related information to its users and guests, to provide general synchrotron information to the public and to offer access to educational programs, the Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC) has launched a redesigned Web site.
Partners in Giving pledge forms due by Dec. 14
Partners in Giving officially ended Nov. 30, but it is not too late to make a contribution. If you wish to give through the convenient payroll deduction option, you should turn in your pledge form to your campaign coordinator no later than Wednesday, Dec. 14.
Applications available for undergraduate research scholarships
UW-Madison offers undergraduates great opportunities to engage in collaborative research with faculty or instructional/research academic staff.
Study: Job satisfaction varies between independent and organization-hired doctors
Wisconsin family physicians employed by large health care organizations are less happy on the job and more likely to want to leave than those in independent practice, according to a study published in the Dec. 6, 2005 issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
Assistant dean urges connections among community
Connie Wilson spent the past 34 1/2 years coming to Bascom Hall every morning as an assistant dean of students
Librarian leads ‘double life’ as singer at Tudor dinners
Sylvia Edlebeck’s life is the stuff of fairy tales. For most of the year she’s an acquisitions librarian and Web master at the Memorial Library. However, come November and December, she performs with the Philharmonic Chorus of Madison at the Wisconsin Union’s Tudor Dinners.
LUNAFEST benefits breast cancer fund
LUNAFEST, a one-night- only film festival celebrating women
Reminder of inclement weather guidelines
The chancellor is responsible for determining if, for the safety and welfare of students and staff, classes will be postponed or some services suspended due to inclement weather.
University focuses on energy conservation
Faced with rising energy bills, UW-Madison plans to do what many Wisconsin families will do this winter: conserve energy in an attempt to hold down costs and safeguard the environment.
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Volleyball advances to NCAA Regional
Senior co-captains Aubrey Meierotto and Sheila Shaw both had double-figure kills in their final home match as 13th-ranked Wisconsin defeated 16th-ranked California 30-23, 30-22, 30-25 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament Saturday night at the UW Field House.
New maps reveal the human footprint on Earth
As global populations swell, farmers are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. As a result, agricultural activity now dominates more than a third of the Earth’s landscape and has emerged as one of the central forces of global environmental change, say scientists at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment.
Scientists seek clear-sky definition of clouds
Atmospheric scientists – Earth’s professional cloud-gazers – have learned a great deal about clouds over the decades, particularly with the advent of satellites during the 1960s and 70s. But despite years of research and the emergence of increasingly sophisticated tools, scientists are still at odds over one of the most basic issues of all: how to define a cloud.
The cold truth about climate change and snow
What would the Earth be like if one fine day all the snow melted away? For one, global temperatures would likely spike by about eight-tenths of a degree Celsius — an increase that represents as much as a third of the warming that climate change experts have predicted.
Badger fans invited to bowl in sunny Orlando
The official University of Wisconsin Capitol One Bowl Tour is headed to sunny Orlando on Dec. 30, 2005. Hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA), the four-night tour offers round-trip charter air travel from Madison and Milwaukee, accommodations at the Badger team hotel, and a game ticket in the Wisconsin section.
Barrows, CALS associate dean, to retire
Richard L. Barrows, Associate Dean for Academic Student Affairs in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and professor of agricultural and applied economics, will retire from the university after the end of the academic year.