A listening session will be held from 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, 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.
The following events for the week of Nov. 19, 2006 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may be of interest to the general public and the media. All events are free and the public is welcome, except where noted.
New developments in technology occur constantly, but a group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is staying on top of the changes and finding ways that faculty and staff can take advantage of them.
A major benefactor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison during her lifetime, the late Ethel K. Allen has funded multiple initiatives on campus in perpetuity.
The University of Wisconsin-Extension was recognized Nov. 9 by the National Alliance for Caregiving in Washington, D.C., for strengthening the delivery of family caregiver education through partnership.
States and their colleges and universities have enacted numerous policies to help undergraduate minority students succeed. The forms and outcomes of these efforts, however, have differed dramatically. The effects of these initiatives will be the subject of “How States and Institutions Shape Racial Dynamics in Higher Education,” a campus forum to be held on Wednesday, Nov. 15.
Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier will give a free public presentation, “Creating Cultures of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization,” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, Nov. 13.
After an extensive search, two finalists have been named for the top position at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL), Wisconsin’s primary testing facility for animal diseases and education and consultation services.
Each year, more than 3,000 international students from more than 100 countries study on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Sharing that worldly experience with the community is the inspiration behind the program International Reach.
This fall, the Department of Life Sciences Communication welcomed WSUM, the university’s student-run radio station, and its 150 student volunteers to the department. After a year of planning, WSUM moved its administrative home to life sciences communication. Although the station will still operate from its location on State Street, it is now part of the department.
Access is the No. 1 challenge for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chancellor John D. Wiley told the university’s Faculty Senate on Nov. 6.
On Friday, Nov. 10, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Place will unveil three new exhibits about Wisconsin astronomers’ explorations of the heavens.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students who live in off-campus apartments and houses are invited to a special campus forum to discuss safety issues.
With a hotly contested election just days away, some leading politicians from both ends of the political spectrum have come together on at least one issue: A University of Wisconsin-Madison political science degree is instrumental in their lives and public service careers.
Phill Gross and Paul Leff have been named winners of the Distinguished Business Alumnus Awards given by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Spend five minutes with Officer Heidi Golbach, standing on the west steps of Memorial Library outside her office, and she’ll point out a half dozen of the characters she knows from her daily patrols of lower campus.
Following his daughter Suzy’s admonitions to write a book that would reveal “his sympathetic nature,”she wrote, Mark Twain published “The Prince and the Pauper”in 1881. Set in 16th-century London, the author carefully researched the time and place, reportedly using Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott as references.
In her spare time, Tracey Hageny, a fourth-year veterinary medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, rescues animals. She recently attained federal nonprofit status for an animal rescue group she started several years ago.
A group of doctoral students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Educational Policy Studies will offer global perspectives on education in “Schooling around the World: Sights, Sounds, Stories and Travels,” on Wednesday, Nov. 15, in a special program to mark International Education Week.
Wisconsin ecologists have ventured into remote parts of Iceland to explore a startling phenomenon in which trillions of gnat-like bugs periodically rise up to form hovering swarms so thick they resemble waves of morning fog.