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. Employee Matters recently spoke with attorney John Dowling of Administrative Legal Services to learn what UW–Madison employees should know about public records requests. Q: What is a public records request? A: …
Ask Bucky celebrats 10 years 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. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Ask Bucky e-mail …
John Berry, Department of Chemistry, is the first winner of the Ernst-Haage Prize in Bioinorganic Chemistry, an award given annually to a doctoral or postdoctoral research associate who has made a major contribution to the area of bioinorganic chemistry. LaMarr Billups, special assistant to the chancellor for community relations, has received Downtown Madison Inc.’s Community …
Most red wine may not be as good for the heart as media reports have suggested and may even be harmful, according to a review presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions.
To date, the only response to Johne’s disease, a debilitating wasting disease in dairy cattle, has been to eliminate affected cows from the herd. But School of Veterinary Medicine researchers are homing in on a way to save the cow by controlling the disease-causing bacteria instead.
For both the staff and visiting denizens of UW–Madison’s fine arts Tandem Press, printmaking in all its guises is cause for celebration. To prove the point, the press will host its annual holiday open house from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18.
Traveling Lantern Theatre Co. will present its take on Chapman’s travels at 1 and 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 19, at the Waisman Center Children’s Theatre. On Sunday, Dec. 3, again at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., the theater will usher in the holidays with Dance Wisconsin’s “Nutcracker Fantasy,” a new version of an old favorite.
Music, dance, song and fashion will showcase both traditional and modern Vietnamese culture at the Vietnamese Students’ Association’s first Culture Night on Saturday, Nov. 18.
As the fall semester starts to wind down, UW–Madison is proceeding full tilt in its concert season.
Peter O’Leary and Sina Queyras will read from new works on Thursday, Nov. 30, courtesy the Friends of the UW–Madison Library’s FELIX series.
Six Polish films, all of them made between 2005 and 2006, will be featured in the 2006 Polish Film Festival, Friday-Sunday, Nov. 17-19. The program includes two films about the seminal Polish director and teacher Krzysztof Kies’lowski, perhaps best known for his 10-hour “Dekalog.”
A true fan “UW CHZHD,” seen near Babcock Hall on a vehicle’s customized Wisconsin license plate, suggests the driver’s fondness for cheese in America’s dairyland. Photo: Jeff Miller
An established cardiovascular biomechanics researcher whose interests include studying stem cell differentiation for cardiovascular regenerative therapies, Brenda Ogle joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering in August.
Gregory Bean is a lab technician in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He’s been in his current position for four years, but he’s worked at the university in many capacities since enrolling as an undergraduate in 1994. 1. Describe your job. I do research, studying the biochemical properties of bacterial proteins and how they interact …
A listening session will be held from 5–6:30 p.m. today (Nov. 15) in the Main Lounge of Memorial Union to give campus community members an opportunity to voice feelings related to the recently passed marriage amendment and discuss the implications for domestic partner benefits.
Lafayette: The Boy General, part of the American Founders series (Parallel Press, December 2006) By John P. Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution So far, Kaminski has written three 100-page chapbooks on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Next: the Marquis de Lafayette. But wait! Lafayette was a …
As part of its 80th anniversary, the Dance Program is celebrating the work of 20th century artistic genius Alwin Nikolais which will be showcased in the upcoming Fall Faculty Concert at 8 p.m. Nov. 16–18, in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space.
Before the Nov. 7 election, there was considerable unease on campus about the implications of the state marriage amendment. Questions concerned not only issues of fairness and tolerance, but potential impact on benefits currently afforded to domestic partners.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Committee on Women in the University November 8, 2006 The Committee on Women in the University is profoundly disappointed by yesterday’s vote to alter the constitution of the State of Wisconsin by creating a new section 13 of article XIII with the following language: “Only a marriage between one man and one …
Dear WISELI affiliates, We are writing today because we feel compelled to acknowledge the profound disappointment and pain felt by many members of our community – of all sexual orientations – as a result of Wisconsin’s failure to defeat the Marriage and Civil Unions amendment. We know that many of you personally supported the “No” …