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Attempting to bridge the span in both space and culture from East to West, two concerts of Korean and Korean-American dance will be featured on campus this weekend.

Lawrence E. Walsh, independent counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation from 1986 to 1993, will present the 10th Annual Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture at the Law School on Friday, Oct. 23.

A new brochure profiles more than 80 unique and noteworthy trees on campus, and invites people on a step-by-step natural history tour along the oldest swath of campus on Bascom and Observatory hills.

After 10 years of planning and dreaming and 1 1/2 years of construction, the new Old Red Gym is about set to re-open as the university’s first student and visitor services center.

Officials expect minimal disruption to campus services as eight student services offices move to the renovated Red Gym.

There are, of course, many avenues to learning, but let us introduce you to the reel one: Cinematheque, a coalition of academic departments and student film enthusiasts.

This year’s Land’s End Lecture at UW-Madison Tuesday, Oct. 20 will feature Robert Frisch, a Chicago consultant and associate director of the Center for Retail Management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Colonialism and imperialism in the wake of the Spanish American War will be the theme of a series of campus activities marking the centennial of the war this fall.

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) will formally christen the new $35.6 million Biochemistry Building on Oct. 15-16 with a dedication ceremony, open house and science symposium.

Students from UW-Madison and around the country will plunge into community service work beginning today (Thursday) as part of a four-day conference to help fight hunger and homelessness.

Six untenured faculty – already distinguished scholars and teachers – have been named UW-Madison’s 1998-99 Lilly Teaching Fellows.

Beginning on Wednesday, Oct. 14, and continuing for the next two to three weeks, bus routes will be split into two runs through the west end of the campus due to a delay in completion of road construction work in that area.

A portion of Observatory Drive (east of the pond near the Nielsen Tennis Stadium) will be closed beginning Wednesday, Oct. 14, due to site preparation for construction of the university’s new Pharmacy Building.

The lucky willow and dogwood branches have been chosen, and world-acclaimed environmental sculptor Patrick Dougherty and UW-Madison students are hard at work on Dougherty’s installation for the university’s sesquicentennial.

Employers and graduates ranked UW-Madison’s master of business administration program among the nation’s best in a Business Week survey.