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UW, county launch sexual assault prevention campaign
The university, in partnership with Dane County, is launching a new, student-generated campaign designed to help prevent sexual assault.
Advances
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Almanac
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Athletics
NCAA: Probation for discounts The university has been placed on probation for five years and reductions have been made in grants-in-aid in football…
Calendar highlights
Historian to present Curti lectures The 26th annual Merle Curti Lectures will be presented by distinguished intellectual historian Francis Oakley Oct. 16-18.
Elsewhere
(Elsewhere summarizes developments on other UW System campuses and in the system administration. For more system news, visit: http://www.uwsa.edu/univ_rel/wn.htm.)…
Employee Matters
This column by Employee Compensation and Benefits addresses campuswide employment issues. Send your questions to: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. I am not currently enrolled…
News in Brief
LEADERSHIP Four named finalists for business dean The university has named four finalists for dean of the School of Business.
Recent sightings
Grounded Freshman Mao Moua studies on Library Mall during an autumn day. (Photo: Jeff Miller)…
New program enhances job searches
Under a pilot program with the Chronicle for Higher Education, prospective faculty and staff who are considering UW–Madison for their next career move can learn more specifics about the campus by visiting the Chronicle's Web site.
2001-02 faculty promotions and new faculty
Promotions from Assistant to Associate Professor College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Andrew Bent, Plant Pathology; Nancy Langston, Forest Ecology and Management (also…
Hemp won’t replace other crops: study
Even if industrial hemp production became legal, few U.S. farmers would find the crop profitable, according to a university study.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
$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.