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Employee Matters
This column by Employee Compensation and Benefits Services addresses campuswide employment issues. Send your questions to: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Are you leaving employment?…
Recent Sightings
A student test drives the FutureTruck, a re-engineered Ford Explorer, in tough academic terrain before letting Chancellor John Wiley…
Who Knew?
Wisconsin Week’s Josh Orton finds answers to questions of campus interest posed by faculty and staff. We can’t promise to answer all questions submitted,…
Kutler: Restore access to presidential papers
"Really makes you wonder what's in those papers," muses Stanley Kutler, UW–Madison's E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions. Kutler's wonderment is rooted in President Bush's recent executive order barring, in the interest of national security, access to presidential records.
Wiley wheels into the future
Chancellor John Wiley plans to drive the FutureTruck, a Ford Explorer re-engineered by students, today, May 13, at 11:30 a.m. at Bascom Hall.
Letters and Science honors five
Five members of the College of Letters and Science academic staff received career achievement awards at an April 24 reception and ceremony. Dean Phillip R. Certain presented the awards, which are the first to be made under a new Letters and Science annual program.
Events bulletin
LEARNING Summer Continuing Education Catalog Available The Summer Continuing Education Catalog is now available by calling 262-1156. The catalog offers opportunities…
For the record
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Center for the Humanities Call for Proposals The Center for the Humanities of the College of Letters and…
Milestones
APPOINTED Ed VanGemert has been named associate director for Public Services for the General Library System, which includes management of public services…
Position Vacancy Listings
Administrative 041550: Assoc Dir,Unspec (9) U H S / Administrative Services (100). Apply by May 31. 041687: Policy/Plng Analyst/Sr Policy/Plng Anlst…
Pledge encourages graduates to find ‘good’ jobs
The job market may be tighter for UW–Madison May 2002 graduates, but a "good" job means more than good money, say organizers of the Graduation Pledge Initiative.
What’s all the brouhaha about stem cell research?
The final talk in the Wisconsin Idea Explorations in the Sciences series of free public evening presentations, 'What's All The Brouhaha About Stem-Cell Research?' features Robert Streiffer, UW–Madison professor of medical ethics and philosophy.
Housing conference examines smart growth
Smart growth and affordable housing are the focus of this year's Wisconsin Housing Conference May 21-22 at UW–Madison.
University finalizes park-and-ride program
Transportation Services has finalized a plan to offer a second park-and-ride lot to commuters at a much lower price than what it costs to park on campus at UW–Madison.
Chancellor’s assistant retires; successor named
With 30 years of university service, Maria Justiliano will retire Friday, June 14. Debra Lauder, assistant to athletic director Pat Richter, will return to the position she held from January 1988 until December 1991 in Donna Shalala's administration.
UW-Madison to train students in computational biology
A team of UW–Madison biologists and computer scientists has received nearly $5 million to train students to handle the increasingly complex problems that researchers in biology and medicine will face.
Returning adult students overcome obstacles
Kathy Burud wants to help bring babies into the world; LaVay Scott wants to go on advocating for elderly people in need of care. Both of this year's recipients of the Outstanding Undergraduate Returning Adult Student Awards at UW–Madison have overcome immense challenges to complete college degrees that were begun two to three decades ago.
Miniature laboratories made easy
Thanks to university biomedical engineers, scientists soon may be able to fabricate elaborate palm-sized "laboratories" more easily and for about a quarter of the cost of current methods.
Innovation increases wireless data rates
University engineers have invented a method of characterizing and managing the multiple channel paths generated when antenna arrays are used at a wireless transmitter and/or receiver.
Device may ease biopsies
A new device developed by UW–Madison students and faculty may bring the cumbersome breast biopsy procedure up to date.