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Michael W. Chapin, a Chicago-area newspaper editor for 24 years, has been named news manager for University Communications and editor of Wisconsin Week.

Ruby Paredes has been named assistant vice chancellor for Student Affairs, responsible for serving as liaison to schools, colleges and administrative units to promote diversity goals expressed in Plan 2008.

The Office of International Student Services, in conjunction with the Graduate School, International Faculty and Staff Services and the SEVIS Implementation Team, will hold a pair of informational seminars on SEVIS, the new Student Exchange Visitor Information System.

Chancellor John Wiley will talk about the challenges the university faces with the state budget situation as the spring 2003 University Roundtable series gets under way Wednesday, Feb. 12.

A member of the American Chemical Society for 40 years, chemistry professor Charles Casey has now become its president.

Faculty and staff are going mobile with technology. The fourth annual survey of computing use at UW-Madison, conducted by the Division of Information Technology, shows that ownership and use of mobile computing and technology devices are at an all-time high.

Continuing Studies Catalog is Here The Winter/Spring 2003 UW-Madison Continuing Education Catalog is available by calling 262-1156. The catalog describes hundreds of noncredit courses in aging, alcohol and other substance abuse counseling, art, clergy programs, communication, dance, desktop publishing, diversity, fitness, public management, history, human services, languages, literature, mediation/dispute resolution, music, nonprofit development, publication design, …

Generalized Anxiety Disorder Study John Marshall is recruiting men and women to participate for a medication research study of generalized anxiety disorder. Study participation involves coming into the clinic for visits and taking the study medication on a daily basis. The study medication is investigational. It is being tested to determine whether it reduces symptoms, …

Appointed Susan Barribeau has been named electronic resources coordinator for the UW-Madison Libraries, a position she has held on an interim basis for the past year. She will continue serving as Web site manager for the libraries. Iris Bolton has been named associate director for animal services at the Wisconsin Primate Research Center. She has …

Ask Bucky Actual questions from real people, answered by the friendly folks at the Campus Information and Visitor Center. Ask CIVC questions at its office, first floor of the Red Gym. Call 263-2400 or e-mail askbucky@redgym.wisc.edu. Can faculty and staff use the on-campus recreation and exercise facilities? Yes, with a valid university ID and after …

The first recipient of UW-Madison’s Alma Baron Second Chance for Women Scholarship, Shawn Cassiman dropped out of high school at 17 and didn’t return to school for nearly 25 years.

Honked off If these geese are getting annoyed, we certainly can’t blame them. Cold, warm. Freeze, thaw. What’s a goose to do when the weather keeps sending a mixed message? These Canada geese, photographed while flying over University Bay along a partially frozen section of Lake Mendota, may keep a low profile until winter temperatures …

Quality. Choice of artists. As he nears his retirement as Wisconsin Union Theater director, Michael Goldberg will tell you that those two details are essential when it comes to the performing arts.

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Art historian Anna Andrzejewski became so fascinated with literal “built-in” surveillance that it was the subject of her doctoral dissertation, which she finished at the University of Delaware in 2001. Her doctoral research is now becoming a book, “Architecture and the Ideology of Surveillance in Modern America: 1850-1950,” which she expects to complete this summer.