Design expert to critique students’ resources for homeless
Bradley Quinn, an international author and analyst of design issues, will deliver the School of Human Ecology's 2005 Ruth Ketterer Harris Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 31. Read More
Planetary scientist to discuss human and alien existence
One of the foremost authorities on the understanding of alien life and planetary evolution, David Grinspoon, will speak in Madison at a special lecture on Tuesday, March 8. Read More
Expert to discuss gender equity in higher education
"Gender Equity in Higher Education: What the President of Harvard Doesn't Know" will be addressed in a presentation by Louise F. Root-Robbins, coordinator of the UW System's Status of Women Initiative, on Thursday, March 31, at the UW–Madison. Read More
Display, ‘rock concert’ celebrate world’s oldest stone
The museum's Stony Muse project, a cross-disciplinary program that looks at various aspects of geology/geophysics and the arts and humanities, has commissioned "The Rock Concert" to bring deep time into clearer focus and to celebrate a microscopic bit of zircon that has been in residence on earth for 4.4 billion years. Read More
Jazz diva dianne reeves to perform in Wisconsin Union Theater
Three-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves, one of jazz's preeminent vocalists, will close the Wisconsin Union Theater season on Saturday, April 16, at 8 p.m. Read More
Rennebohm Foundation donates $15 million to IRC
The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation today announced a $15 million gift to help build the planned Interdisciplinary Research Complex (IRC). Read More
DARE editor to discuss new regional English, dictionary uses
An editor for the Dictionary of American Regional English will discuss linguistic revelations at a free lecture sponsored by the UW–Madison Language Institute on Wednesday, March 16, at noon in the Memorial Union Read More
March 21 deadline set for Small Business Tech Transfer award
Nominations for the 2005 Governor's Small Business Technology Transfer Award are due by Monday, March 21. Read More
Economists help business execs identify trends
Four top economists will present their projections, insights and predictions at the UW–Madison's Economic Outlook at the Fluno Center, 601 University Ave., on Friday, March 4. Read More
Canada/Wisconsin technology roundtable set for March 15
Madison will be the site of a "Canada/Wisconsin Technology Roundtable" on Tuesday, March 15. Read More
Fermilab experiment to beam neutrinos through Dairyland
In an effort to pin down the elusive nature and qualities of one of nature's most intriguing subatomic particles - the neutrino - scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, in Illinois will soon send a beam of the ghostlike particles coursing through subterranean Wisconsin to a detector deep in a mine in northern Minnesota. Read More
Governor’s budget adds funding to UW, financial aid
A two-year state budget that includes cuts in administrative positions but adds funding to deal with major university priorities was presented to the Legislature by Gov. Jim Doyle, kicking off deliberations that are expected to last for months. Read More
South African ambassador to visit campus
Barbara Masekela, South Africa's ambassador to the United States, will join U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold in a panel discussion at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Friday, March 11, marking the 10th anniversary of the South African constitution. Read More
Pianist Brendel to perform at Union Theater
Alfred Brendel, "reckoned to be the world's greatest living pianist," according to The New Yorker, will perform at the Wisconsin Union Theater on Thursday, March 31, at 8 pm. Read More
Student exhibition explores ‘Art of the Printed Book’
The location of this exhibition couldn't be more appropriate: the second floor of the Memorial Library. Read More
Symposium celebrates 45 years of African history
Top scholars in the field of African history will help celebrate 45 years of African history on campus. Read More
Art students learn boatbuilding skills firsthand
Are we in a dockyard or an art studio? You'd be hard pressed to answer at the moment, for master boatbuilder Josh Swan is in residence in the seventh-floor woodworking studio at UW–Madison. Read More
New WiscCal features available
WiscCal has been upgraded to the latest version of Oracle Calendar. This brings new functions and improvements throughout the application, both for Web-based and desktop client users. Read More