Historian to present Curti lectures The 26th annual Merle Curti Lectures will be presented by distinguished intellectual historian Francis Oakley Oct. 16-18. The overall theme for Oakley’s free public lectures is “Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ideas.” The specific lectures are: Tuesday, Oct. 16, “Natural Law: …
(Elsewhere summarizes developments on other UW System campuses and in the system administration. For more system news, visit: http://www.uwsa.edu/univ_rel/wn.htm.) Legislature acts on tuition, financial aid proposals The Senate and the Assembly recently took action on several bills related to university tuition and financial aid. The Assembly unanimously passed a bill (AB 509) that increases the …
This column by Employee Compensation and Benefits addresses campuswide employment issues. Send your questions to: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. I am not currently enrolled in the major medical (Epic) or Dentacare plans. Will there be an open enrollment period in the near future? Yes. Dentacare has an open enrollment and major medical (Epic) has a special enrollment that …
LEADERSHIP Four named finalists for business dean The university has named four finalists for dean of the School of Business. The finalists were recommended to Chancellor John Wiley by a 19-member search-and-screen committee after a nationwide search. The committee was chaired by James M. Johannes, faculty member and associate dean in the School of Business, …
Grounded Freshman Mao Moua studies on Library Mall during an autumn day. (Photo: Jeff Miller) Mark Amato, food service worker for Chadbourne Residence Hall, cooks pancakes for students attending the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s second annual Pre-Game Pancake Party at the Stock Pavilion Oct. 6. The event preceded the Wisconsin vs. Indiana football game, where the …
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.
Promotions from Assistant to Associate Professor College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Andrew Bent, Plant Pathology; Nancy Langston, Forest Ecology and Management (also IES/Academic Programs); Patricia McManus, Plant Pathology; Pamela Ruegg, Dairy Science School of Business Marjorie Rosenberg, Actuarial Science and Risk Management (also Medical School/Biostatistics and Medical Informatics) School of Education Kelli Koltyn, Kinesiology …
Even if industrial hemp production became legal, few U.S. farmers would find the crop profitable, according to a university study.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An internationally known expert on ‘civic scholarship’ will urge researchers to collaborate with their communities when he visits the university Monday, Oct. 15.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.