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Hints for attending this weekend’s BB doubleheader

February 16, 2001

Sunday's Badger basketball doubleheader will bring a larger than usual influx of basketball fans and their vehicles in and around the university. Read More

Cancer center patients to be featured on PBS

February 15, 2001

Two Wisconsin residents who were enrolled in a clinical trial of a new anti-cancer drug at the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center are featured in an upcoming episode of PBS' "NOVA," airing Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. Read More

Folke Skoog, pioneering plant cell researcher, dies

February 15, 2001

Renowned plant physiologist and National Medal of Science recipient Folke Karl Skoog, professor of botany at the university for 32 years, died Feb. 15 after a long illness. He was 92. Read More

Chemical flame retardant found in salmon

February 14, 2001

University scientists have found high levels of a common chemical flame retardant in Lake Michigan salmon. Read More

Ping Chong to discuss art in the new century

February 14, 2001

Ping Chong will speak Friday, March 2, on "Making Art in the New Century" and show slides and video of his award-winning and innovative work in theater and performance. Read More

Storytelling festival planned this week

February 14, 2001

Storytellers will speak in both English and their native languages at the fourth annual American Indian Storytelling Festival Thursday and Friday, Feb. 15-16. Read More

Conference set on academic freedom

February 13, 2001

A conference on the rights and responsibilities of academic freedom, including the issues of free speech and intellectual property rights, will convene Thursday and Friday, Feb. 22-23. Read More

Roger Howard to retire

February 13, 2001

Roger Howard, a widely known top student services official, will retire in June. Read More

WAA welcomes prospective students

February 13, 2001

The Wisconsin Alumni Association plans to welcome more than 200 students from targeted high schools in the Milwaukee and Chicago areas to the university as part of WAA's Prospective Scholars Days. Read More

Team places sensors on enormous iceberg

February 13, 2001

University researchers have placed Automatic Weather Stations on the massive Antarctic iceberg that broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf last March. Read More

Advances

February 13, 2001

(Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries by e-mailing: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.)… Read More

Almanac

February 13, 2001

(Almanac lists facts, figures and miscellany of campus interest. Know something, or want to know? Call us: 262-3846, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.)… Read More

Alvarez says he will finish career at Wisconsin

February 13, 2001

Wisconsin head football coach Barry Alvarez says he will remain with the Badgers for the rest of his career. Read More

Calendar highlights

February 13, 2001

School of Music hosts contemporary guest artist eighth blackbird, a contemporary music sextet founded at Oberlin Conservatory in 1996 that won the 2000… Read More

Regina Carter Quintet to jazz up Union Theater

February 13, 2001

Regina Carter, touted by The New York Times as "violinist of great control, improvisational flexibility and wide range," will perform in Madison for the first time on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. at the Wisconsin Union Theater. Read More

Elsewhere

February 13, 2001

(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.)… Read More

Events bulletin

February 13, 2001

Learning Directory Lists Programs for Youth Nearly 100 classes, camps, workshops and other activities for children and teens are… Read More

Film festival previews spring showings

February 13, 2001

Fresh and original independent film, documentaries, world cinema, new media and the work of Wisconsin filmmakers all will be featured this spring at the Wisconsin Film Festival. Read More

Knapp House is an intellectual and social haven

February 13, 2001

Drawn from all corners of the world and various academic departments, the 12 scholars who comprise the Knapp House graduate student learning community have created a community that combines the cohabitation challenges of MTV's "The Real World" with the culinary antics of the "Iron Chef" and academic inquiries much deeper than Regis' $1-million-dollar question. Read More

Milestones

February 13, 2001

Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail:… Read More