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Every gift counts for ‘partners in giving’
Small acts of generosity can reshape the world. That's the artistic message on every booklet cover and poster for this year's "Partners in Giving" campaign, which begins Monday, Oct. 15 and ends Nov. 30. Read More
Broadcaster Stamberg to visit
National Public Radio broadcaster Susan Stamberg will visit Tuesday, Oct. 16, to deliver her talk, "Forgive Us Our Press Passes," for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Ralph O. Nafziger Lecture. Read More
UW System to mark 30th anniversary
October marks the 30th anniversary of the merger combining the Wisconsin State Universities and the University of Wisconsin into one, seamless public higher education system. Read More
Emeritus engineering professor pulls plug on electric chair’s reliability
In the last 111 years, more Americans have died by legal electrocution — 4,324 — than through any other method of execution. But now the long era of the electric chair is drawing to a close, and Theodore Bernstein, emeritus professor of electrical and computer engineering, is one of the hands that is pulling the plug. Read More
Miriam Makeba returns to Union Theater
South Africa's legendary musical sensation and Grammy Award winner Miriam Makeba will perform at the Wisconsin Union Theater on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. Read More
Connecting the past with the present: Photo project uncovers campus link
It is a coincidence befitting a Charles Dickens novel: University professor discovers cache of photographs, lost for more than half a century. Depicted are elder family members of an administrator at the same university where the professor works. Read More
Expert promotes civic scholarship
An internationally known expert on 'civic scholarship' will urge researchers to collaborate with their communities when he visits the university Monday, Oct. 15. Read More
$4 million gift will support 16 music fellowships
A $4 million gift from a UW–Madison alumnus has established an endowment that will fund 16 School of Music graduate fellowships in the College of Letters and Science. Read More
Homecoming theme is ‘Badger Luau’
Colorful paper leis will be the must-have accessory when the university celebrates its 2001 Homecoming, "Badger Luau," later this month. Festivities begin with a campus cleanup Friday, Oct. 19, and end with the Wisconsin-Michigan State game Saturday, Oct. 27. Read More
New study: Changing roles benefit men and women
Contrary to longstanding theories of gender and psychology, women and men can benefit by taking on more than one traditional social role, such as worker or parent, report two researchers in the October issue of American Psychologist. Read More
Generation 2008 plans forum
Generation 2008, a student-organized group dedicated to raising the level of awareness of Plan 2008, will hold a free, daylong forum and workshop Saturday, Oct. 13. Read More
Police remind fans about game day security measures
UW-Madison police remind all football fans that security measures enacted for last week's game remain in effect for this Saturday's contest between the Badgers and the Indiana Hoosiers. Read More
International Institute to hold communitywide forum
The International Institute is sponsoring a forum, 'The U.S. in a Changed World: Where Will We Go After September 11, 2001?,' to address issues raised by the terrorist attacks. It will be Thursday, Oct. 18, 4-6 p.m., 3650 Mosse Humanities Building. Read More
UW-Madison to study charter schools
The La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW–Madison has been awarded a $650,000 federal grant to study how well charters schools are working in Wisconsin. Read More
New center to address diversity in math education
A new five-year, $11.5 million consortium based at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research is beginning work on rebuilding the nation's mathematics education infrastructure. Read More
Panel focuses on Bill of Rights in times of crisis
A panel discussion Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters' Bill of Rights forum in Milwaukee will focus on civil liberties in a nation at war. Read More
Molecular snippets hold viruses at bay
In a surprising find, scientists have uncovered the antiviral properties of an obscure class of peptides that may someday provide a powerful way to curb the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Read More
New method softens up germs
Scientists with the Food Research Institute have devised a promising way to keep microbes vulnerable to germ-killers using plant-derived compounds called sesquiterpenoids. Read More
UW to develop Internet 2 ‘middleware’
The university has received a grant to facilitate online sharing of knowledge, instruments and other scientific resources, and foster Web-based collaboration. Read More
Nonresident tuition to go up
The UW System Board of Regents is expected to approve increasing non-resident undergraduate tuition an additional 2.5 percent next semester. Read More