The Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has been named host of one of the United States Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Organization Management programs beginning in 2005. This annual program will be held for one week in June and attracts nearly 200 association and chamber of commerce professionals from throughout the United States.
Reading the fossil record, a paleontologist can peer into evolutionary history and see the surface features that plants and animals and, occasionally, microbes have left behind. Now, scouring the genome of a Japanese yeast, scientists have found a trackway of fossil genes in the making, providing a rare look at how an organism, in response to the demands of its environment, has changed its inner chemistry and lost the ability to metabolize a key sugar.
Yvonne Rainer, contemporary dance pioneer and co-founder of the Judson Dance Theatre, will speak at the Dance Program’s Friday Forum on Sept. 24, at 3:30 p.m. in Lathrop Hall.
Recommendations contained in an audit of University of Wisconsin System administrative costs and staffing were embraced by UW System President Kevin Reilly, despite concerns about how auditors arrived at some of their findings.
The 2004-05 Distinguished Lecture Series will kick off Oct. 27. The series is designed to give students the chance to invite provocative speakers to campus, manage and promote their appearances, and get to know them up close and personally.
Acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Siegel will open his four-part 2004-05 Keyboard Conversations series on Tuesday, Sept. 28.
The Global Studies program has announced a design competition for a logo that captures the program’s international dimension as well as its academic mission, and is adaptable to a variety of use. A $500 prize will be awarded to the winning artist.
The very symbiotic relationship between haute and popular culture will be examined at a two-day conference on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.
From art discussions to merengue instructions, events during the School of Education’s Academic Staff Week, Monday, Sept. 27-Friday, Oct. 1, will showcase the diverse talents of academic staff members.
The African Studies Program has announced its series of Sandwich Seminars for the fall semester.
Male enrollment in School of Nursing may be highest ever The incoming class at the UW-Madison School of Nursing has one of the highest percentages of male students ever enrolled, even exceeding the national average for the percentage of men pursuing nursing education. And, notes Dean Katharyn May, the class also has the highest percentage …
Sixty percent of the harmful medication errors that occur in hospitals are related to IV infusion pumps.
William Olson, formerly chief of the Information Management Unit for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad, Iraq, and now with National Defense University, will speak in the Pyle Center Auditorium at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 27.
The ethical complexities of administrative decision-making in a higher-education setting will be the topic of a two-session course at the Pyle Center, on Thursday, Sept. 30, and Thursday, Oct. 7.
The Wisconsin Union is opening a new deli, the “Daily Dose,” in the Health Science Learning Center, on the west end of campus near UW Hospital. The Grand Opening continues through Friday, Sept. 24, with hours from 7 a.m.-9 p.m.
Jocelyn Milner has been named director of Academic Planning and Analysis in the Office of the Provost. She succeeds Martha Casey, who retired in 2003. Provost Peter Spear appointed Milner as interim director upon Casey’s retirement.
In his inaugural address as president of the UW System on Sept. 16, Kevin P. Reilly outlined his immediate priorities for the UW System Board of Regents.
The Wisconsin Partnership Fund for a Healthy Future awarded the first round of planning grants for 20 organizations across the state, according to UW Medical School Dean Philip Farrell.
Award-winning poets, all from the Madison area, will read from their work on Thursday, Sept. 23. Marilyn Annucci, Harriet Brown, Susan Elbe, Andrea Potos, Alison Townsend and Dennis Trudell all had chapbooks published by the UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. The free readings will begin at 7 p.m. in the Overture Center’s Wisconsin Studio. For more …
Three group works and two solos, to be performed on Thursday, Sept. 23, by Li Chiao-Ping Dance, will help celebrate the Overture Center’s grand opening. Li, a professor of dance, says that the pieces were presented during the summer at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage and at Dance Place in Washington, D.C. The event is …