Calendar highlights
Historian to present Curti lectures The 26th annual Merle Curti Lectures will be presented by distinguished intellectual historian Francis Oakley Oct. 16-18. Read More
Employee Matters
This column by Employee Compensation and Benefits addresses campuswide employment issues. Send your questions to: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. I am not currently enrolled… Read More
News in Brief
LEADERSHIP Four named finalists for business dean The university has named four finalists for dean of the School of Business. Read More
Recent sightings
Grounded Freshman Mao Moua studies on Library Mall during an autumn day. (Photo: Jeff Miller)… Read More
New program enhances job searches
Under a pilot program with the Chronicle for Higher Education, prospective faculty and staff who are considering UW–Madison for their next career move can learn more specifics about the campus by visiting the Chronicle's Web site. Read More
2001-02 faculty promotions and new faculty
Promotions from Assistant to Associate Professor College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Andrew Bent, Plant Pathology; Nancy Langston, Forest Ecology and Management (also… Read More
Hemp won’t replace other crops: study
Even if industrial hemp production became legal, few U.S. farmers would find the crop profitable, according to a university study. Read More
Every gift counts for ‘partners in giving’
Small acts of generosity can reshape the world. That's the artistic message on every booklet cover and poster for this year's "Partners in Giving" campaign, which begins Monday, Oct. 15 and ends Nov. 30. Read More
Broadcaster Stamberg to visit
National Public Radio broadcaster Susan Stamberg will visit Tuesday, Oct. 16, to deliver her talk, "Forgive Us Our Press Passes," for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Ralph O. Nafziger Lecture. Read More
UW System to mark 30th anniversary
October marks the 30th anniversary of the merger combining the Wisconsin State Universities and the University of Wisconsin into one, seamless public higher education system. Read More
Emeritus engineering professor pulls plug on electric chair’s reliability
In the last 111 years, more Americans have died by legal electrocution — 4,324 — than through any other method of execution. But now the long era of the electric chair is drawing to a close, and Theodore Bernstein, emeritus professor of electrical and computer engineering, is one of the hands that is pulling the plug. Read More
Miriam Makeba returns to Union Theater
South Africa's legendary musical sensation and Grammy Award winner Miriam Makeba will perform at the Wisconsin Union Theater on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. Read More
Connecting the past with the present: Photo project uncovers campus link
It is a coincidence befitting a Charles Dickens novel: University professor discovers cache of photographs, lost for more than half a century. Depicted are elder family members of an administrator at the same university where the professor works. Read More
Expert promotes civic scholarship
An internationally known expert on 'civic scholarship' will urge researchers to collaborate with their communities when he visits the university Monday, Oct. 15. Read More
$4 million gift will support 16 music fellowships
A $4 million gift from a UW–Madison alumnus has established an endowment that will fund 16 School of Music graduate fellowships in the College of Letters and Science. Read More
Homecoming theme is ‘Badger Luau’
Colorful paper leis will be the must-have accessory when the university celebrates its 2001 Homecoming, "Badger Luau," later this month. Festivities begin with a campus cleanup Friday, Oct. 19, and end with the Wisconsin-Michigan State game Saturday, Oct. 27. Read More
New study: Changing roles benefit men and women
Contrary to longstanding theories of gender and psychology, women and men can benefit by taking on more than one traditional social role, such as worker or parent, report two researchers in the October issue of American Psychologist. Read More
Generation 2008 plans forum
Generation 2008, a student-organized group dedicated to raising the level of awareness of Plan 2008, will hold a free, daylong forum and workshop Saturday, Oct. 13. Read More
Police remind fans about game day security measures
UW-Madison police remind all football fans that security measures enacted for last week's game remain in effect for this Saturday's contest between the Badgers and the Indiana Hoosiers. Read More