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Students pursue passion for discovery
Through a new outreach program, students experience the thrill of discovery as they explore how animal communities in Wisconsin have changed over the last 25,000 years.
Group outlines construction priorities
The Campus Planning Committee has endorsed five building projects for 2003-05, including a $22.9 million Health Services Building and a $30 million renovation of Sterling Hall as the top two priorities.
Advances
Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Gender…
Almanac
Police: common sense, precautions foil thieves Students, faculty and staff can help prevent burglaries and thefts over the upcoming winter break by using…
Elsewhere
Elsewhere summarizes developments on other UW System campuses and in the system administration. Whitewater: Tuition plan to expand academic advising The…
Employee Matters
This column by Employee Compensation and Benefits Services addresses campuswide employment issues. Send your questions to: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Employee Compensation and Benefits…
Events Bulletin
LEARNING Art Courses for Adults Spring Continuing Studies courses focus on Chinese brush painting, bead embroidery, stitchery, papermaking and self-exploration in…
Recent Sightings
Chemistry professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri explains his color-changing cylinders of liquid during an hour of kid-pleasing science experimentation Dec. 1 at…
Calendar Highlights
Press publishes chapbook from poet GenowaysPoet Ted Genoways evokes the stark loneliness and hard-scrabble survival of life in early 20th-century Klondike in “Anna,…
Chancellor’s statement on interviews
Chancellor John Wiley issued a statement Thursday, Dec. 6, regarding federal plans to interview Dane County residents as part of anti-terrorism efforts.
Art enhances building projects
From art glass to stained glass, holography to tapestry, installations, murals, paintings and more, Wisconsin's Percent for Art program has played an integral role in building projects on campus.
Budget cuts continue
UW System instructional and research funding, but not administration, will be exempt from another round of state budget cuts this week.
Office restores balance in lives
It's clear that the world has changed dramatically in the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. What is only beginning to emerge is how these intensely stressful and emotionally charged events affect people in their everyday lives, says Kathleen Holt, of the campus Employee Assistance Office
Poet Genoways reads tonight
Poet Ted Genoways evokes the stark loneliness and hard-scrabble survival of life in early twentieth-century Klondike in "Anna, washing," the latest release from the Parallel Press.
Microbes may ease environmental, energy woes
Researchers are turning to microbes for help with some of our biggest problems. The results could lead to a healthier environment and new sources of fuels and chemicals for the 21st century.
Court hears Southworth appeal
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments in a six-year old case involving the way segregated student fees are distributed on UW System campuses.
UW-Madison shifts to Web-based grades
UW-Madison is shifting to a new Internet-based system for the distribution of student grade reports.
Gorilla conservation advocates to speak at UW–Madison
Two UW–Madison alumni credited with helping rescue the world's largest apes from the brink of extinction will give a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10, in 145 Birge Hall, 430 Lincoln Drive.