Librarian receives Woman of Color Award
Janice Rice, senior academic librarian in College Library and member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, has been selected as UW–Madison’s recipient of the 14th annual UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award. Read More
New Strategic Framework Available
UW-Madison has just completed a comprehensive process to develop a strategic framework that will guide and focus the university’s efforts during the next few years. Thousands of faculty, staff, students and alumni participated in a 10-year reaccreditation self-study, which laid the foundation for the framework. Titled “For Wisconsin and the World,” the plan includes a vision statement, guiding principles and six strategic priorities. Read More
Writer’s Choice: Cinematheque finishes semester with film series
If gorging on films during the recent Wisconsin Film Festival has left you hungry for more, Cinematheque will satisfy with some tempting offerings to get you through the semester. Read More
Choral Union presents ‘War Requiem’
For 11 horrific hours on the night of Nov. 14, 1940, thousands of Luftwaffe incendiaries and tons of explosives and air mines pounded Coventry, England. When the all-clear sliced through the morning light, hundreds of civilians were dead and injured, the city in shambles. Among the homes, shelters, hospitals, churches and buildings destroyed was the Cathedral of St. Michael, its skeleton of walls still standing among piles of smoldering debris, where people lay buried in the rubble. Read More
Those with interdisciplinary tastes should sample MALBEC
An interdisciplinary seminar will feature scientists who use computational approaches to understand the behavior, learning and perceptions of people and machines. Read More
Book Smart
Radio has always served as an ideal vehicle for the Wisconsin Idea, pushing the boundaries of the university far beyond Madison. Jim Fleming recalls a colleague telling how, as a young mother from tiny Bayfield, Wisconsin Public Radio served as her connection to the world beyond her child-rearing life. Read More
Employee Matters
This column is prepared by staff from the Office of Human Resources. E-mail questions to benefits@ohr.wisc.edu or call 262-5650. For more information, visit http://www.bussvc.wisc.edu/ecbs/ecbs.html Read More
Administrative Process Redesign work apparent around campus
With the help of many project volunteers, the Administrative Process Redesign project’s efforts are being felt campuswide. Read More
Leading scientists highlight stem cell symposium
A cadre of North America’s leading stem cell scientists will land in Madison on Wednesday, April 15, for the fourth annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium: Cancer, Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells. Read More
Arts Institute announces faculty, staff, student honors
Arts Institute executive director Norma Saldivar announces the recipients of the 2009 awards in the arts. Read More
School of Education honors faculty, staff
Seven members of the School of Education have been selected to receive Distinguished Achievement Awards, the highest honor the school bestows on current faculty and staff. Read More
‘Great People’ initiative moves faculty, staff
The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, proposed by Chancellor Biddy Martin, has as one of its main planks increased private support for need-based financial aid. Read More
Ten faculty to receive Distinguished Teaching Awards
Ten University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty will receive this year's Distinguished Teaching Awards. A ceremony and reception are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, in the Lee Lounge at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. Read More
‘Storytellers’ to be honored as Distinguished Alumni Award winners
Five alumni whose positive contributions have earned them national recognition will be honored next month with the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Awards, presented by the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA). Read More
April events bring spring to campus
Spring into those long-awaited warm months by attending one or more of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's April 18 events. Read More
Recent sightings: Butterfly exhibit
From left to right, visitors Shae Monson, 10, and Bree Monson, 8, observe a Caligo eurilochus butterfly, common to Central and South… Read More
Earth Day conference explores Wisconsin’s energy future
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies will hold its third annual Earth Day Conference on Wednesday, April 22. Read More
Gallup Center for Muslim Studies executive director to visit Madison
Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, will speak at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Grainger Hall on Tuesday, April 14. Read More
WAA’s Employment Essentials developed to help weather stormy economy
With the economy showing no signs of stabilizing any time soon, the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) has responded by packaging a suite of online career tools. Read More
Study reveals potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests
With climate change looming, the hunt for places that can soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is on. Read More