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Entering third season, softball’s future looks bright

The job description is simple — make UW-Madison an inviting, rather than an intimidating, place to visit. But the job is not, considering the complexities of campus and the multitude of visitors to it each year.

Free tickets to the May 13 lecture at the Kohl Center by Nobel laureate Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, will be available to UW-Madison students, faculty and staff beginning April 4. Tickets can be picked up at the Kohl Center Box Office, (608) 262-1440, and the Wisconsin Union Box Office, (608) 262-2201, …

‘Dancing for the Camera,’ a screening of contemporary dance video work by choreographers and directors from around the world, will feature recent work from Spain in a free program in the new Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall.

Stanley Williams, whose whose studies of an erupting Mount St. Helens have made him a celebrity among volcanologists, will deliver a free public lecture and two scientific talks on campus later this month.

Seven UW-Madison professionals have been honored with Academic Staff Excellence Awards for their outstanding work in leadership, public service, research and teaching.

C.D. ‘Buzz’ Besadny, former Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and Elizabeth (Betsy) Likert David, resource economist at the Wisconsin DNR, will receive the Wisconsin Idea Award in Natural Resource Policy April 7.

Award-winning novelist Ursula Hegi will lecture at UW-Madison April 2 at the State Historical Society.

The latest tenured faculty to be named Vilas Associates in the biological, physical and social sciences and in the humanities have been announced by the Graduate School.

A correspondent for ABC’s ‘Nightline,’ the deputy managing editor of The New York Times and one of Wisconsin’s most recognized sports reporters will be honored by UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication April 17.

Eight UW-Madison faculty recently have been awarded named professorships following approval by the UW System Board of Regents.

More than 10,000 books and several thousand LPs will be put on sale in a fund-raiser for the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Thursday through Sunday, March 26-29.

Henry Greene’s master work, the prairie in the UW Arboretum that bears his name, was every inch his own. Today, Greene Prairie is at the heart of a controversy over a proposed development on adjacent land.

The Madison Area Clothesline Project, part of an international grassroots project to raise awareness about the impact of sexual assault on individuals and communities, will be displayed on campus.

Nearly $300 million in construction projects are scheduled on campus this year, an ambitious building plan that will affect campus roads and parking.

Numerous projects, from building construction and renovation to road and utility improvements, will result in a net loss of 367 parking spaces, including 283 that will be permanently lost.