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The Wisconsin Alumni Association plans to celebrate 140 years of “connecting, enriching and serving” UW-Madison graduates with a full weekend of events May 11-12.

The Wisconsin Alumni Association will host a reception for international and exchange students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business and the School of Engineering Wednesday, May 9, at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.

One of the nation’s leading experts in the field of character education will speak Saturday, May 12, as part of the School of Education’s Alumni Weekend program.

Seven student service employees were honored April 25 by the Student Personnel Association for exceptional service to students.

Virginia S. Hinshaw, the Graduate School dean and the leader of its half-a-billion-dollar program of research, has been named provost and executive vice chancellor of the University of California, Davis. She assumes her new position July 1, pending approval by the UC Board of Regents.

Martin Cadwallader, an 11-year veteran of the Graduate School, has been named the school’s interim dean and vice chancellor for research while the search for a successor is under way, Chancellor John Wiley announced today.

University Health Services is conducting HIV testing noon-3 p.m. Friday, May 4, in the On Wisconsin room of the Red Gym, 716 Langdon St.

The annual Festival of Interarts and Technology will showcase a wide range of visual and performing works by emerging student artists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Saturday, May 5, 6-10 p.m. in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.

Ten new interdisciplinary proposals have been selected for the latest round of the university’s strategic hiring program, which is helping chart new territory in teaching and research.

Joining the ranks of filmmaker Woody Allen and photographer Richard Avedon as American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows for 2001 are three UW-Madison faculty members.

Three faculty – Larry L. Bumpass, Stephen R. Carpenter and F. Fleming Crim – were elected this morning, May 1, to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

(Almanac lists facts, figures and miscellany of campus interest. Know something, or want to know? Call us: 262-3846, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.) Sandefur speaks on service Gary Sandefur, interim provost, will speak about “Tying the Community to the Classroom” Thursday, May 3, 10-11 a.m., 350 Bascom, as part of the Teaching and Learning Colloquium. Sandefur’s presentation …

The UW Arts Institute has selected recipients of several major annual awards. All awards were presented by the Arts Institute, a unit of the College of Letters and Science, the School of Education and the School of Human Ecology.

A grant from the University Book Store allows for 20 Academic Excellence Awards of $1,000 each to undergraduate students who best demonstrated excellence by completing a project through independent study.

Character-education expert to speak to education alumni “Why Morals Are Back: The Return of Character Education” will be the topic of the School of Education’s Alumni Weekend program Saturday, May 12, at 9:30 a.m. in 204 Educational Sciences Building. The free public event’s featured speaker will be James Leming, Carl A. Gerstacker Professor of Education, …

Capitol capsules provides a quick overview of state government activities of interest to UW-Madison employees. Budget shortfall worsens The state budget picture will likely get worse in coming weeks. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau is expected to announce revised revenue projections for the 2001-03 biennium around Tuesday, May 8, and those estimates are expected to show …

The School of Education will honor seven of its outstanding alumni.