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Going Wilde Merlin Holland, the grandson of Oscar Wilde, is giving a lecture Monday, Feb. 5, in Great Hall, Memorial Union, 7:30 p.m. Read More
Capitol capsules
Budget looking lean State Administration Secretary George Lightbourn has requested that state agencies cut spending by 0.5 percent. The Legislative Fiscal… Read More
Events bulletin
Learning International Opportunities Awareness Month February will feature the first International Opportunities Awareness Month, providing students campuswide with a… Read More
For the record
Policies and procedures Benefit Education Sessions Dates and topics upcoming: Feb. 1 Early Career Employees, Benefit Education… Read More
Gallery of Design opens Judaica exhibit
"Tevet to Av: Celebrating Contemporary Judaica" will be on view in the Gallery of Design through March 8. Read More
Milestones
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
Union plans late-night movie series
Union South is becoming a hotbed of activity on weekends: live music at Club 770; "glow-in-the-dark" bowling, pool and other activities in the Games Room; and now, midnight movies in the Main Lounge. Read More
News in brief
LEADERSHIP Two named to Board of Regents Gov. Tommy G. Thompson plans to appoint his former administration secretary, James R. Read More
Wisconsin artists anchor a print renaissance
The Elvehjem Museum of Art will present an exhibition of 75 prints by artists who have been part of the vibrant print movement on the university campus during the past 40 years. Read More
Instructor: Do as I say – and as I do
Whether it's building her own home, teaching about science or diving out of a plane, Kathy Blomker has a passion for the power of doing. Read More
Recent sightings
Could it be any clearer? The mind of a chemist finds expression on the glass panels of a chemistry lab… Read More
Jane Austen festival planned April 23-29
The Center for the Humanities will present its first Humanities Festival, "Jane Austen in the 21st Century," April 23-29 in venues on campus and around Madison. Read More
What puts the brakes on madly spinning stars?
Keying off new observations, astronomers are turning to an old idea of what puts the brakes on young, rapidly rotating stars, some of which spin so fast that astronomers are amazed they simply don't fly apart. Read More
Lecture focuses on new telescope
The promise of a major new astronomical observatory, the Southern African Large Telescope or SALT, will be the subject of a public lecture Tuesday, Feb. 13. Read More
Prison work fuels professors’ passion for justice
The seeds of social justice were sown early in the lives of clinical associate professors of law Keith Findley and John Pray. Those seeds reaped a huge harvest earlier this month, when Texas convict Christopher Ochoa was exonerated for a rape and murder he did not commit. Read More
Advance makes voting machines easier to use
The Trace Research and Development Center will demonstrate easy-to-use voting machine design techniques Tuesday, Jan. 30, during a Capitol Hill event focused on electronic voting technology. Read More
Foundation supports chemical genomics center
A $1.5 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation will enable the university to establish a center of research for the study and application of chemical genomics, a dynamic new field combining chemistry and molecular biology. Read More
Research park sponsors student recruitment fair
Companies at the rapidly expanding University Research Park hope to better recruit the talent available at their doorstep with a first-ever student job fair on Monday, Jan. 29, at the Memorial Union's Great Hall. Read More
Genome project finds ‘triggers’ for E. coli illness
The newly completed genomic sequence of E. coli O157:H7 reveals how these potentially deadly bacteria are armed with a surprisingly wide range of genes that may trigger illness. Read More
Chancellor names Nagy executive assistant
Casey Nagy, executive assistant to the provost, has been appointed by Chancellor John Wiley as his executive assistant. Read More