UW-Madison has lowest student loan default rate
UW-Madison students had the lowest Federal Perkins Loan default rate in 2001-02 of any school in the Big Ten for the third consecutive year, according to data compiled by Purdue University.
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Pregnant women still smoking
Despite the known health consequences of smoking during pregnancy, about 48 percent of women smokers continue to light up after learning they’re pregnant, according to the second in a series of action papers published by the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
Almanac
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Engine Research Center collaborates with GM
General Motors Corp. will fund a $5 million collaborative research laboratory at UW-Madison over five years to help develop cleaner, more efficient diesel and gasoline engines.
New dean of students notes priorities as her job begins
Luoluo Hong, UW-Madison’s new dean of students, hopes to provide stability and support for department colleagues and to re-establish a connection with the student body, particularly in the area of advocating on behalf of students.
University assesses its fiscal future
The UW System and UW-Madison are planning for the possibility that the 2003-05 state budget will contain another round of funding cuts.
Tongue device taken to national competition
A team of inventive undergraduate students headed to New York City last week to compete at the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition, sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The students took with them a tongue-toning device they designed that could help the 15 million adults who have health problems related to swallowing.
Professional development offered to grad students
In a new effort to help graduate students acquire and sharpen the professional development skills necessary for career success, the Graduate School has combined a new program of professional development with its Office of Outreach Services. The new unit, the Office of Outreach and Graduate Student Professional Development, is intended to provide opportunities for graduate students in all disciplines to gain experience and insight into such broad skill sets as writing, public speaking, Web and software development, administration and ethics.
Upgrades will reshape west campus
With the Health Sciences Learning Center under construction and several more west campus facilities planned in the next few years, campus planners are in the process of addressing needs to improve the university’s utility and transportation infrastructure.
Employee Matters
Classified Employees Annual Leave Conversion Option
Windows close, services open
After 38 years and tens of thousands of students served, the Office of the Registrar recently ended window service in Peterson Office Building. To streamline services, those of the final window, Window 24, have now been merged into the office’s customer service center in Room 123.
Consider leading a FIG
Faculty members seeking ways to improve the transcultural skills of undergraduates and make a difference in retention should consider leading a First-Year Interest Group next year.
Fish to lead facilities planning and management
Alan R. Fish, an administrator with more than 23 years of experience with UW-Madison and the State of Wisconsin, has been selected as the university’s new associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management, Chancellor John Wiley announced today (Tuesday, Nov. 19).
Students partner with Oakwood
A new partnership between the School of Human Ecology and the Oakwood Village Retirement Communities is enabling students of interior design to help Oakwood evaluate its newest facility this semester.
Sightings
Got storage? The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) sure does. Housed in a secure facility, an IBM Enterprise Storage Server — comprised of 240 hard drives, each with 36.4GB of storage, mounted in a cabinet the size of a hall closet — contains almost 11 terabytes of redundantly powered and backed-up data to support hundreds …
Adventurous learning
For most of us, a typical vacation does not include sleeping on the floor of a preschool classroom, digging fence-post holes or washing stacks of dishes. Yet two groups of students and alumni had the chance to do all this — and more — during a summer week of labor, laughter and learning spent volunteering on the Blackfeet Reservation in the far northwestern corner of Montana.
Educator explores better K-12 schools
An address by Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University professor of education, will highlight the School of Education’s annual celebration of American Education Week.
Study finds options to slow resistance to Bt corn
According to a study published in the current issue (Nov. 1, 2002) of the journal Ecology Letters, the current federally backed strategy to slow resistance to the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin could be altered to permit the normal application of pesticides to crop refuges without risking the overall resistance prevention strategy.
Panel tackles the hidden effects of prison spending
On Nov. 20, from 5-7 pm, in the Memorial Union, a panel of Madison-area activists and professionals will discuss the issue of increased state spending on prisons and how youth, people of color, residents of rural communities, and others feel the impact.
Parallel Press releases Feraca poetry collection
Madison-area poet, essayist and public radio host Jean Feraca examines the complexities of relationships, and the illness and death of her mother in a recently published collection of poetry, “Rendered into Paradise.”