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A retired Madison advertising executive has been named interim director of trademark licensing at UW-Madison.

Due to the major expansion project currently underway at the Waisman Center, the Highland Avenue entry drive to the center’s parking lot (Lot 82) has been closed for an extended period of time.

Is our money better spent locking up criminals or trying to rehabilitate them through social programs? And do existing social programs alter behavior in ways that reduce crime? National experts in criminal justice policy will examine these questions.

Melvin Oliver, vice president of the Asset Building and Community Development Program for The Ford Foundation, will lecture on wealth disparity between the races Wednesday, Feb 17 as part of UW-Madison’s University Lecture Series.

The National Partnership for Reinventing Government recently presented the coveted Hammer Award to a team led by the Department of Education, including three people from UW-Madison.

Eight UW-Madison faculty have been awarded 1999 Romnes Fellowships for extraordinary achievement at an early stage in their careers.

Clarke Square Family Health Center – the nation’s only comprehensive health care clinic in a grocery — represents the future of family medicine, according to UW-Madison leaders involved in the project.

At the Kohl Center on a recent Saturday afternoon, the pressure was building not only on the men’s basketball team playing right then, but also on eight crews of workers quietly assembling in the bowels of the arena.

A Nobel Prize winner whose work dramatically changed our understanding of how the brain creates our visual world will present a free public lecture Feb. 15 as the first in a series of events celebrating 25 years of neuroscience training on campus.

The possibility of a lesbian or gay president of the United States: remote, likely, irrelevant? Playwright and novelist Larry Kramer will discuss that prospect and other topics in a lecture Monday, Feb. 22 at UW-Madison.

New infant care centers scheduled to open on campus in the coming year will offer up to 20 new openings for children ages six weeks to 30 months.

The current status of the gypsy moth in Wisconsin and the Madison area will be discussed at a forum to be hosted by the Department of Entomology.

A trio of Madison Metro buses brightly decorated in honor of the sesquicentennial will begin transporting passengers around campus early next month.

A professor whose family has been linked to UW-Madison for four generations has been named director of the Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs.

A vastly improved experience for visitors is in store at the UW Arboretum, where two major gifts totaling more than $1 million will enable construction of a new auditorium and other enhancements to facilities and programs.

UW-Madison is seeking community input on its plan to increase campus diversity by holding two public hearings next week.