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Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of Afro-American studies and philosophy at Harvard, will give the free public talk ‘Race, Gender and Individuality’ April 4.

The Senate Biennial Budget Committee will complete its series of statewide budget hearings Tuesday, March 26, at UW-Madison from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in Tripp Commons at the Memorial Union.

At a legislative hearing, Chancellor John Wiley outlined a wide range of consequences for university education and research if lawmakers fail to stick with the governor’s budget adjustment plan.

Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will visit April 1-3 to deliver the George L. Mosse lectures.

A new study of alcohol use among college students has found that the prevalence of binge drinking at UW-Madison remained largely the same over the past year, reflecting a national trend.

The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters has inducted five new Wisconsin Academy Fellows, including three professors.

British parents are getting child-rearing advice that originates with UW-Extension and the School of Human Ecology ö and liking it.

The UW System Board of Regents has lifted a suspension on undergraduate admissions.

Twenty years ago, Dr. Norman Jensen was ready to give up his internal medicine practice and teaching responsibilities at the Medical School. Today Jensen is dedicated to restoring doctors’ stature and respectability in American society. ‘Medicine’s reputation is eroding, and I’m worried about it,’ Jensen says.

UW System leaders have been working with the governor’s office and legislative leadership to open up enrollment opportunities for students this fall.

A new exhibition on the first floor of Bascom Hall allows university students to explore cloth as a medium of artistic expression.