Do you feel like your benefit plans are confusing and you don’t know how to maximize all the university has to offer? Attend the annual UW Benefits Fair sponsored by the Employee Compensation and Benefits Office (EC&BO) on Wednesday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.
The art of animation as practiced in Iran will be shown by the Cinematheque student-run film society on Saturday, Oct. 9. Using a variety of production techniques, including hand painting, silhouettes, claymation and knitting, these short films were all made between 1994-2001. One is in Farsi; the others contain no dialogue. The showings, which are …
The University Opera will open its 2004-05 season with “The Turn of the Screw” on Friday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. Other performances are Sunday, Oct. 17, at 3 p.m. and Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Music Hall.
As part of a season-long campaign to improve the fan experience at Camp Randall Stadium, UW-Madison is seeking 40 students, faculty and staff to serve as fan ambassadors and welcome visitors before the remaining home games on Oct. 23 and Nov. 6.
New state regulations and a campus construction project have forced UW-Madison’s car fleet and fleet garage operations to undergo a series of changes.
Tech council calls for state support of UW Last week, the Wisconsin Technology Council released a report calling on the governor and the Legislature to reverse the long slide in public support for the UW System, beginning with the 2005-07 state budget bill. This recommendation and others are based on its analysis and conclusion that …
A seven-block-long pedestrian mall, seen as the unifying feature of the East Campus redevelopment plan, has new momentum after lingering on university drawing boards for 96 years. The East Campus Mall, first proposed in a 1908 campus master plan, is a key element in today’s plans to revitalize the area with an arts-and-humanities district and new student housing.
Roger Wilkins, a Pulitzer Prize winner and longtime civil rights activist, will focus on the hopes and promises of the Civil Rights Act in its 40th year during the Kastenmeier Lecture at the UW Law School.
Veena Das, a scholar internationally respected for both her academic research and her activist work on physical and structural violence in India, will be this year’s J. Jobe Soffa and Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa Distinguished International Visitor.
Devastating neurodegenerative diseases — from mad cow and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in animals to Creutzfeldt-Jakob in people — have seized headlines across the country, especially in areas with large deer herds. While much has been written, little is still understood about how these diseases have evolved and are transmitted, including the risk of animal-to-human transmission.
Sheila McGuirk was so elated when she heard she’d been selected for the 2004 Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope bicycle ride across America, she high-fived the visor in her car and clicked her heels in the air on her way into her daughter’s music lesson.
It’s all a blur Fullback Matt Bernstein (45) hurdles over an attempted Penn State tackle during the Badger’s Big Ten season-opening football game at Camp Randall Stadium on Sept. 25. Bernstein carried the ball a career-high 27 times for 123 yards. The Badgers, who won the game 16-3, added another win to their season by …
By developing a computer model that mimics how children learn to read, two researchers from UW-Madison and Stanford University track the development of a skilled reader, ultimately showing that phonics gives readers an edge, especially early on.
State budget difficulties and calls for a so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights threaten the quality of higher education in Wisconsin, UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley said Monday.
When Terrell Fletcher was coming out of high school, the UW changed his life. Now he’d like to return the favor.
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Susanne Desan, professor of history, “The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France,” University of California-Berkeley Press, 2004. During the French Revolution, divorce became legal for the first time in the nation’s history. Men and women had the same access: They could invoke adultery, abuse or abandonment, even incompatibility or mutual consent. One woman sent her …
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The campus will play host to Rock the Vote’s “Voter Registration Experience Bus Tour” on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
Just when you need a new angle on all the election stories, Bucky Badger has one for you: He’s running for president during Homecoming 2004.