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University supports city’s Halloween efforts
UW-Madison officials continue to support the efforts of the City of Madison and local law enforcement to downsize, discourage and localize upcoming Halloween activities.
Kites on Ice put on hold for 2006
Organizers of Madison’s midwinter festival Kites on Ice have announced that it will not be held in 2006 due to a lack of funding.
Conference focuses on first-year students
UW-Madison faculty and staff who teach and work with first-year students will gather on Friday, Oct. 14, to discuss ways to engage students and set them on the path for a successful academic career.
Leading German jurist to give human rights talk
Brun-Otto Bryde, judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, will deliver the Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture at 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19, in the Godfrey & Kahn Lecture Hall (Room 2260) of the Law School.
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Grant funds nursing research into improving patient care
The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded two grants totaling $2.8 million to the School of Nursing to develop interventions designed to improve patient health.
Songs help Indian women solve real-world problems
Songs help Indian women solve real-world problems
Biologist to speak in zoology lecture series on Oct. 7
Among the many bizarre evolutionary patterns of the animal kingdom is the curious diversity of male “horns” in different species of the dung beetle.
Roundtable plans fall speaker events
University Roundtable begins its fall schedule on Wednesday, Oct. 19, with Gary Sandefur, dean of the College of Letters and Science. He’ll talk about “The Beat Goes On: Maintaining the Healthy Heart of a Great University.â€
Homecoming: W marks the spot
Homecoming 2005 sets sail on Friday afternoon, Oct. 14, when 128 students will compete in the EA Sports NCAA Football Challenge from noon-4 p.m. in the Memorial Union parking lot. It’s billed as “the ultimate college video game tournament.” Sixteen universities across the nation are participating, and the champion from each campus will be flown to New York to compete for the title of national champion.
UW-Madison historian aims to broaden perceptions of American West
“I wish I’d been a fly on the wall instead of a first-grader,” says Susan L. Johnson, the Women’s Studies Research Center Fellow for this fall, referring to a meeting in 1962. Those attending it established the Western History Association, and Johnson contends that the list of participants says a lot about the discipline of …
MacBeth takes Kabuki turn in student production
A Kabuki version of “MacBeth” frames the Shakespearean tragedy in traditional Japanese theater.
Writer’s Choice
On the verge of earning her master’s degree in library and information studies, Gay Strandemo has developed an acute appreciation of the proper care of library books.
Bazzell shares background, importance of diversity
On the issue of diversity and community, Darrell Bazzell is in a hurry.
‘Community’ encourages contribution to inclusive campus
A unique problem about crises is that they often hold valuable lessons. “I asked myself what kinds of things create community and I came up with a sad answer. Crisis creates community,”says Bernice Durand, associate vice chancellor for diversity and climate. “How do we generate and sustain that bonding, which grows out of the thought, empathy and generosity of a crisis?”Durand posed this query among many other questions to faculty, staff and students last week at the Multicultural Campus Forum on Creating Community held at the Memorial Union.
Book Smart
Fall 1991 found Francine Hirsch entering the Ph.D. program in history at Princeton, just as unprecedented change was unfolding in the former Soviet Union. Watching the Soviet Union dissolve, Hirsch elected to study the processes surrounding its formation some 70 years earlier. She found that once in power, the Bolsheviks knew next to nothing about …
Counseling psychology honored for minority achievement
The Department of Counseling Psychology in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education has received the 2005 Suinn Minority Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) in recognition of the department’s exemplary recruitment, retention and graduation of racial and ethnic minority students.
Partners in Giving campaign begins Oct. 10
University, UW Hospital and Clinics, and state government employees in Dane County can support any of more than 400 charities by contributing to this fall’s Partners in Giving campaign, which begins Monday, Oct. 10 and ends Wednesday, Nov. 30.
Gladfelter awards honor government efficiency ideas
The innovative ideas of public workers who help make their agencies run more smoothly and efficiently can win $500 awards in a competition administered by the UW-Madison department of political science.