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The city of Madison has approved a name change for the segment of Walnut Street that runs east/west between Marsh Lane and Highland Avenue. It will now be called Marsh Drive; signs have been changed.

Several outbreaks of norovirus infection have been documented in Dane County recently. Norovirus (formerly Norwalk-like virus) infection is common in the winter and is sometimes mistakenly called “stomach flu,” says Craig Roberts, epidemiologist for University Health Services (UHS).

Organizers of Science Expeditions and the Undergraduate Symposium are seeking campus participation for this semester’s events.

An associate professor of theater and drama at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a sort of pioneer in the field of fight direction. Tony Simotes is a master fight choreographer, using swords, knives, rapiers, clubs and the human body to create realistic battle scenes on stage.

Peter Kottke, a UW–Madison junior from St. Paul, Minn., spent his winter break backpacking around Gila National Forest in New Mexico with his brother, Albert, without any idea that at the end of his trip they would end up becoming national heroes.

Three finalists aiming to become UW–Madison’s next dean of students will visit campus during the next month to meet and interview with students, administrators, faculty and staff.

He showed a mean slice of life in early 20th century New York City through his prints of tenement districts and their denizens. John Sloan began his work in 1905 with a groundbreaking 10-set collection of etchings. The complete body of work will be on exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art beginning on Saturday, Jan. 27.

When you visit Juliet Rake’s photography show “On Closer Examination” at the Arboretum, you won’t see a collection of “trophy shots.”

A free-flow of ideas about land and space, a high-energy solo premiere, a first look at new sections of an ongoing project, ensemble pieces and more will be rendered in dance by Li Chiao-Ping, a professor of dance, and members of her company in concert Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 25-27, at the Overture Center.

Beethoven, Ligeti and Chopin, as interpreted by world renowned pianist and UW–Madison professor of music Christopher Taylor, will open the School of Music’s Faculty Concert Series for the spring semester.

America is what it is thanks to its (European) settlers’ gumption, ingenuity, frugality and hard work, right? The critical role that violence played in shaping the nation is conspicuously absent in the above equation, says Ned Blackhawk. He adds that also missing are the effects of violence on Native peoples, and the hand that those …

Garments designed expressly to be worn once or twice and then pitched enjoyed a relatively brief period of popularity, roughly from 1966-69, according to Jody Clowes, curator of the Gallery of Design and its new exhibition, ?Disposable Dresses: Throw-Away Design from the 1960s.

Ask Bucky Ask Bucky is a service provided by Visitor and Information Programs. For more information, call 263-2400, visit the Campus Information Center in the Red Gym or the new Welcome Center, 21 N. Park St., or visit us at http://www.vip.wisc.edu. Below are two questions Ask Bucky recently answered. Q: Do you remember that painted …

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