Fertilizer run-off threatens long-term balance of lakes” A new university study of what happens to all the agricultural run-off pouring into Lake Mendota suggests it could literally take centuries for the lake to regain its natural chemical balance.
Journalists at the forefront of print and broadcast media, public information and mass communications education will be honored Friday, April 23 by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The UW-Madison chapter of the nation’s leading honorary society, Phi Beta Kappa, will induct 125 students Saturday, April 24.
Michael Barnett, chair of the UW-Madison International Relations Program, will lecture on the upcoming Israeli elections and how they may affect the peace process in the Middle East.
Two guest artists from New York, Sean Curran and Pat Catterson, headline the UW Dance Program’s spring faculty concert. ‘When Passions Prevail’ is scheduled April 22-24 at 8 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall.
Among the 40 artists presenting original chairs for auction at the Madison Art Center’s first-ever “Chairs for Chairity” fundraiser Thursday, April 22, will be 21 UW-Madison art students and their instructor, Jim Dietz.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association’s 39th annual “Day on Campus.” includes continuing education presentations by six UW-Madison professors, a luncheon, and the opportunity to participate in the last day of the Chancellor’s International Convocation.
Four UW-Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Hilldale Awards for major achievements in teaching, research and service.
The Division of Information Technology plans to train up to 85 undergraduates in a unique program this summer.
The 10th annual Alumni University June 21-25 affords alumni, faculty and staff the opportunity to return to the classroom once more to learn from UW-Madison faculty and emeritus professors.
A new symposium called ‘Teaching and Learning with Technology: Progress and Prospects’ is scheduled May 27-28 at Grainger Hall.
UW-Madison plans to hold a public hearing Thursday, April 22, on possible changes to university rules governing the release of student disciplinary records.
Health issues for aging women will be explored in a colloquium April 22-23 sponsored by the Institute on Aging.
Robert Meerpol will discuss “The Death Penalty: The Rosenbergs and Mumia Abu-Jamal,” Tuesday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in 147 Education on campus.
About 300 scientists and students will gather in Madison, April 23-24, for the fifth annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, an international forum on the latest basic and clinical research dealing with emotion.
Sharon Walsh, national business corespondent for the Washington Post based in New York City, will serve as the spring semester’s business writer in residence this week.
Jim Abrahams, whose comic vision has inspired such cinema landmarks as “Airplane!” and the “Naked Gun” movies and more, will reveal “The 15 Rules of Comedy” in a free public lecture on campus Sunday, May 2.
Edmund M. Clarke, Jr., an internationally renowned expert on techniques that make computer hardware perform correctly, will give a talk Wednesday, April 21 on campus.
Vivian Littlefield, one of UW-Madison’s longest-serving administrators, will retire after 16 years as dean of the School of Nursing.
The university plans to spend nearly $500,000 ö most of it coming from a federal grant ö to spruce up one of the campus’s favorite transportation routes, the Howard M. Temin Lakeshore Path.