A new report on “How Wisconsin Smokers Quit” shows that nearly one-half of Wisconsin smokers tried to quit smoking last year. Close to eight out of 10 tried to quit “cold turkey” (without medication or counseling), and 90 percent relapsed within three months. Although new methods for quitting double or triple their chances for success, most Wisconsin smokers still are trying to quit the hard way.
The Small Business Development Center at the School of Business will play a key role in the new Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Network announced by Gov. Jim Doyle.
Simplify your holiday shopping this year by selecting gifts from UW-Madison. From music and books to Badger attire and memberships, you’ll find something for everyone on your list. Proceeds from sales of the gift ideas listed here benefit university academic, social and outreach programs.
Munching on cut-out cookies in shapes of fish, cracking open a frog piñata and letting a live parrot rest on their arms are just a few things children of the Allied Drive neighborhood have had the chance to do in the past few months, thanks to UW-Madison Library staff.
Patricia “Pat” Lasky spent 35 years on the UW campus. She studied, taught and nurtured in her roles as student, clinical nursing instructor, assistant professor, researcher, director of the pediatric nurse practitioner program and associate dean for the undergraduate program and outreach of the School of Nursing.
Trumpet virtuoso Allen Vizzutti will be the featured soloist in a free public concert with the UW Jazz Big Band on Thursday, Dec. 9.
The door is open. Any of the three characters is free to leave at any time. None does. One of them observes, “Hell … is other people.” Clearly, each prefers “No Exit” from their own hell, as rendered in Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential classic. The University Theatre’s production will continue its run at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 9-11, in Vilas Hall’s Hemsley Theatre.
In the mid-1860s, composer Johannes Brahms encountered death in two personal encounters: his close friend and mentor Robert Schumann and Brahms’ own mother. Seeking to comfort himself and others dealing with similar circumstances, Brahms composed Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45, which the Choral Union and Symphony Orchestra will present on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11 and 12.
Ringlingville USA: The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus Success Jerry Apps, professor emeritus, continuing and vocational education Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2004 Their era was ripe with possibilities, and the Ringling brothers took every opportunity to pluck as many as they could. “The book is really an old-fashioned story,” says Apps. …
At 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, a ladder truck from the Madison Fire Department will lift UW Police Detective Carol Ann Glassmaker and Sgt. Kari Sasso, along with two city firefighters, up to the roof of the ShopKo store at 7401 Mineral Point Road.
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With final exams scheduled to begin Thursday, Dec. 16, the workload for many UW-Madison students is steadily increasing. Added stress, anxiety and pressure frequently accompany the final round of tests, research papers and presentations.
Organizers of the Partners in Giving campaign are smiling this month. Dollar totals and donor numbers at the university were up significantly from last year when the annual charitable workplace campaign officially concluded Nov. 30.
Unexpected beauty The greenhouses under construction on Walnut Street offer a surprising view as they are illuminated by car and street lights in the darkening sky. Lynn Hummel, research program manager for the Agriculture Research Stations, says that the 32 new research greenhouses being built to the north of the old greenhouse site replace 31 …
UW-Madison and the United States Peace Corps have a bond like few other institutions.
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Daryl Buss was named dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. Buss previously had been chair of the department of physiological sciences at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and he became the second dean in the school’s history when he succeeded Bernard C. Easterday.
College of Letters and Science Associate Dean Judi Roller has been named senior assistant for cross-college initiatives and diversity initiatives at the graduate level.
OK, what do you get when you cross a supermarket bar code with an old master painting? Answer: Artist David Klamen. Based in Chicago and a professor of fine arts at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Klamen works from “a commitment to the gestalt of the image,” he says, and strives to display a sensitivity …
Adam Gamoran, professor of sociology and educational policy studies, has been selected as director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research in the School of Education.