If Victor Gorodinsky had not managed to escape conscription into the Soviet Army in the early 1980s, there would likely be no Russian Folk Orchestra at UW-Madison today, and there certainly would be no Slavic languages cataloger in Memorial Library.
Nearly 1,000 colleagues from around the world will come together to exchange information and explore new developments at Distance Learning ’98.
The Division of Information Technology has announced the recipients of Instructional Technology Grants. Six recipients were chosen from 18 proposals submitted by campus units.
The Internet Scout Project, a UW-Madison-based project to help students and educators navigate the Internet, is one of five initial partners selected by SurfWatch, an Internet filtering software company, to provide content for its newest product.
Classified Staff award recipients (from left) Catherine Attig, Barbara Schaack, Sheila Zweifel, Joyce Collins and Linda Gorman. They are vital parts that help make up the whole that is UW-Madison. Working hand-in-hand with academic staff, faculty and students, classified employees make up a work force at the university that numbers nearly 4,900. Out of this …
The D. C. Smith Instructional Greenhouse has received an Honor Award from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Six faculty have been appointed to named professorships following campuswide competition and approval by the UW System Board of Regents. The board also appointed nine other faculty to named professorships at its meeting May 7-8 at UW-Oshkosh.
The Wisconsin Engineer magazine won seven awards at the 1998 Engineering College Magazines Association National Convention in Madison.
Graduate School Teaching Assistant award recipients (from left); back row: David Harrison, John Tauer; middle row: David Hanson, Joseph Wong, Eric Benedict; from row: Jennifer Klug, Alexandra Walter, Cheryl Grood. Eight top teaching assistants have been honored with Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Awards for 1998-99. The students — four from the Humanities and Social …
See also: Herfurth-Kubly Awards Holstrom Environmental Scholarships University Book Store Awards for Academic Excellence Playing to win: 1997 Hilldale recipient Brigette Wusterbath explores competition at boy’s basketball camp Grants from the Hilldale Foundation and the Wisconsin State Legislature provide for awards of $3,000 each to undergraduate students and $1,000 to the faculty/staff supervisors to work …
The Friends of the Campus Natural Areas are looking to add to their numbers.
Attendees of the May 4 Faculty Senate meeting got a peek at the upcoming debate over the 1999-2001 state budget.
Top female collegiate golfers from 19 teams will gather May 20-23 for the 72-hole National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament on the par-72, 6,033-yard University Ridge Golf Course.
No bell worth its clapper will be silent May 29. At least, not in Wisconsin. It’s Sesquicentennial Day, and the air will ring from Prairie du Chien to Ashland to De Pere.
Competition may be the common fabric of American life, but UW-Madison senior Brigette Wusterbarth finds something lacking in the winner-take-all game.
Five proposals have been approved for Chancellor David Ward’s new strategic hiring initiative, which promotes creative intellectual links between departments.
Are we about to enter the era of the paperless thesis at UW-Madison?
Polygon Engineering Council, the engineering college council of student organizations, announced their annual teaching excellence award winners April 26. Undergraduates vote to determine the awards. The recipients and their departments or programs are: Faculty and instructors: Lewis Wedgewood, visiting assistant professor, chemical engineering; Henry Guckel, professor, electrical and computer engineering; Jay Samuel, instructor, materials science …
A book by Brenda Gayle Plummer, professor of history and Afro-American studies at the UW-Madison, has won the Myrna F. Bernath Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Students, family members and friends attending any of the five commencement ceremonies this weekend are being encouraged to park in lots 17, 18 or 19 at Camp Randall and ride the convenient Madison Metro shuttle to and from the Kohl Center free of charge.