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Spring graduates will inaugurate UW-Madison’s new Kohl Center as the university’s commencement venue. Approximately 4,000 will be eligible for degrees at five ceremonies May 15-17.

Their artistic accomplishments span music, outreach, computer art, film, creative writing and dance. The awards they will receive illustrate the power of partnership between the university, the Arts Consortium and private donors. The 1998 faculty winners of arts awards, who were recognized by Chancellor David Ward and the Arts Consortium at a special celebration April …

Two UW-Madison faculty members, a physicist and an economist, have been named fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Nolan Pope and Lee Konrad have been named the 1998 Librarians of the Year by their peers in the UW-Madison Librarians’ Assembly.

UW-Madison’s National Agricultural Marketing Association (NAMA) club won the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the second year in a row at the NAMA annual conference April 16 in Dallas.

Four UW alumni, including one of the key individuals behind the renowned Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., have been honored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association as Distinguished Alumni.

A unique gift from TOLD Development Co., Minneapolis, has created the Robert E. Wangard Chair in Real Estate at the UW-Madison School of Business.

UW-Madison’s colony of 54 stumptailed macaques housed at the Henry Vilas Zoo is headed to a wildlife sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas, UW-Madison officials announced today (May 6).

UW-Madison celebrated a deep bench of teaching excellence April 28 as it presented its 1998 Distinguished Teaching Awards.

Winners of the College of Engineering’s 1998 Steuber Writing Prize have been announced.

To control garlic mustard and invasive woody plants in the campus natural areas, chemical herbicides Roundup and Garlon 4 will be applied to areas in the western end of campus starting May 6.

Guest artists Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello will demonstrate their use of interactive computer technology in dance and perform three works from their repertoire on Monday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall.

Four faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Hilldale Awards for major achievements in teaching, research and service.

Breaking news as we go to press: The UW System has announced that Jan B. Heide and Donald Passman are winners of Wisconsin Power and Light Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Awards.