Institute for Research on Poverty wins research center award
The Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison has won designation as one of three Area Poverty Research Centers nationally by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Oct. 11 press conference to outline UW-Madison partnership with Community Car
UW-Madison Transportation Services has recently contracted with Community Car to expand car-sharing services on campus, making it only the second university in the Midwest to offer car-sharing.
Microsoft’s Bill Gates to visit campus Oct. 12
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates will speak to approximately 200 UW-Madison students on Wednesday, Oct. 12, on the topic of “The Impact and Opportunity of Technology: Why Computer Science? Why Now?”
Women’s Studies Program sends Wisconsin Idea around the world for 30 years
UW-Madison offers one of the nation’s oldest Women’s Studies Programs (WSP), founded 30 years ago this fall.
Wisconsin Book Festival, UW share symbiotic relationship
One trip to the Wisconsin Book Festival will convince anyone that we are a community of readers. This year’s festival, Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 13-17, is the fourth.
Speakers highlight Domestic Violence Awareness Month
UW-Madison students, faculty and staff are collaborating to host a number of events promoting discussion of relationship violence and sexual assault during October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
University develops Web site for ‘creating community’
UW-Madison’s sense of community and campus climate can be strengthened by a series of small acts, such as connections among individuals who may not otherwise have come together on this broad campus, says Chancellor John D. Wiley.
School of Music presents concerts by guest artists, faculty, alumni
Soloist, collaborative artist and pianist Lise Keiter-Brotzman of Mary Baldwin College will perform music exclusively by female composers in her concert at UW-Madison on Friday, Oct. 7. Pieces will include the “Sonata in C major,” Op. 7, by Maria Hester Park and four movements (September through December) from “Das Jahr” by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Keiter-Brotzman …
Performance variety the spice of student-performer life
Members of student organizations will present an all-arts variety show highlighting music, dance, theater and the spoken word on Saturday, Oct. 8.
Retro Swing Band gala dance to benefit Mills Music Library
Tucked away in the basement of the Memorial Library, Mills Music Library holds, among many other collections, approximately 1,000 compositions and arrangements from Skitch Henderson of the Johnny Carson Show. On Sunday, Oct. 9, the Madison-based Retro Swing Band will perform in a big band jazz benefit to generate funds for processing the library’s collection.
Finding rhythm between academia, Cajun music
Five years ago Cajun culture grabbed hold of Karen Holden. A professor of consumer science and public affairs and associate director of its La Follette School of Public Affairs, she is a nationally known expert on Social Security, pensions and their relationship to the timing of retirement. She also does a great deal of work on the financial well-being of widows. Somehow she also manages to find time to rehearse and perform with the Madison band Cajun Strangers.
NPR political editor, Seattle Times business editor visit campus
Ron Elving, senior Washington editor for National Public Radio News, and Becky Bisbee, business editor of the Seattle Times, will visit UW-Madison this fall as writers in residence.
UW-Madison alumnus named 2005 e-Business Institute Distinguished Fellow
UW-Madison computer science graduate Matt Korn will receive the 2005 UW e-Business Institute Distinguished Fellow Award at the eighth annual e-Business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies conference on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the Monona Terrace, One John Nolen Drive, Madison. The award will be given at 11 a.m., followed by Korn’s presentation, “Managing the World’s Largest Network.”
Professor exhibits 40 years of work
Large sculptural boxes, collage and framed pieces that illustrate different processes and tools used in making books are among the works comprising an exhibition by Walter Hamady, art professor emeritus.
Early proteins may have sprouted under thirsty conditions
The primordial soup cooked up by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s John Yin is a thin one indeed: Besides an amino acid, it contains just copper and chloride.
Giant pumpkin regatta set for Oct. 9 at Memorial Union
October at the Union Terrace means crisp blue skies and crimson leaves scattered among the brightly colored tables and chairs. But this year you’ll also see a flash of orange bobbing in Lake Mendota as the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s first Giant Pumpkin Regatta takes place at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9, at the Memorial Union Terrace, 800 Langdon St.
Report: Growing deficits jeopardize U.S. influence around world
The United States must confront the alarmingly high federal budget and current account deficits, according to a new report written for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York by Menzie Chinn, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of public affairs.
National Stem Cell Bank spins out first private sector work
Nimblegen Systems is the first Madison company to benefit from the Oct. 3, 2005 announcement by the National Institutes of Health to base the National Stem Cell Bank at the WiCell Research Institute.
Milestones
David Nolan, a financial specialist for the Environmental Resources Center, received a UW-Extension Classified Staff Exceptional Service Award for providing fiscal expertise contributing to Wisconsin’s role as a leader in water resource outreach and education. Mary Rouse, recently retired director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service, received a Friend of Extension Award in recognition …
Recent sightings
Unattended Gardener’s shoes set the stage as Gerry Campbell, faculty director of the Community Scholars Programs, a one-year academic program that combines community service and opportunities for engaged learning, introduces a group of undergraduate students to the Quann Community Garden on Madison’s south side. The Community Scholars spent a Saturday morning helping to extend a …