The UW-Madison chapter of the nation’s leading honorary society, Phi Beta Kappa, will celebrate its 100th anniversary on campus with a discussion Sunday (Feb. 7) featuring a revered civil rights and community leader, Velma Hamilton.
The UW-Madison Athletic Department will be hosting “Wisconsin’s Rose Bowl Celebration — A Salute To Our Team and Its Fans” on Saturday, February 6, at the Kohl Center. The festivities begin at noon.
Textile arts faculty from UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and UW-River Falls will present new works in State of the Art, on exhibit at the UW-Madison Gallery of Design through Friday, Feb. 26.
Scholars from around the world will investigate film’s mission as cultural amusement through a three-day symposium at UW-Madison Feb. 4-6.
“Biotechnology Waltz” seems to have “floored” judges of the 1998 National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association Honor Award.
Campus transportation officials and Madison Metro are gearing up for changes to the weekday campus bus routes that begin this month.
To better balance competing demands for parking between sports fans and arts patrons, Transportation Services has designated several areas for theater and arts parking on campus.
Motivating the entire university community to help improve campus diversity is the thrust of UW-Madison’s plan to increase the number of minority students, staff and faculty by 2008.
As part of his week, Ellington composed “The U-Wisc Suite,” which the UW Jazz Ensemble will perform as part of the university’s 150th Anniversary Concert Sunday, Feb. 7 at 1 p.m.
UW-Madison will commemorate its 150th anniversary and 15 decades of service to Wisconsin and its citizens starting next month.
The implementation of the new student records system at UW-Madison continues as planned and should be completed by late spring.
A stroll through the 1999 art faculty exhibition, opening at the Elvehjem Museum of Art Saturday, Jan. 30, will reveal virtually the entire scope of late 20th century American art forms.
When Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was first published in 1859, the intellectual and spiritual controversy that colors nearly any discussion of where humans come from was already a two-decade-old phenomenon in the United States.
Influenza season is here officially, now that the University Health Services and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene have recently confirmed a case of influenza in a UW-Madison student.
The Oscar Mayer Division of Kraft Foods Inc., has given the School of Business $40,000 to help recruit, retain and educate students of color.
Tickets are still available for the Sesquicentennial Scholarship Gala, a grand event planned for Saturday, Feb. 6, that will feature original performances, fine dining and dancing until midnight.
If the quality is there, children in all varieties of child care show greater confidence with peers and more compliance with adults, according to one of the most expansive studies ever of child care in America.
Robert W. Goy, administrator, educator and pioneering investigator of the origins of sex differences in behavior, died Jan. 14 from cardiovascular and metabolic complications. He would have been 75 on Jan. 25.
Plans are pending in the UW-Madison Department of History for a memorial recalling the life and scholarship of George Mosse, the department’s Bascom-Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies. Mosse died Friday, Jan. 22 from liver cancer.
The road to economic stability for the west today, argues a UW-Madison rural sociologist, is one that takes an ironic twist to the frontier axiom that “all wealth comes from the land.”