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Ambling through Allen Centennial Gardens
Let us amble through the amber sunshine in Allen Centennial Gardens, a horticultural jewel across from Steenbock Library that will brighten even this luminescent spring morning.
Almanac
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Awards briefs
School of Ed honors staff The School of Education presented its annual Distinguished Achievement Awards to six faculty and staff members earlier…
Awards wrap-up
New award recognizes academic collaboration Faculty collaborations to yield new courses Returning-student awards recognize struggle, triumph Scholarships awarded to students by…
50 years later, they’re gone
After a half-century, the 'temporary' buildings on the west end of campus have crumbled under the claw of an excavator, making way for something more permanent - the Engineering Centers Building.
Calendar briefs
Top actress Hagen to lead student drama workshops Tony Award-winning actress Uta Hagen plans to do a workshop for UW–Madison students during her…
Campus retirees gather under watchful presence of former housing worker
Drop by Lums Family Restaurant on the fourth Wednesday of any month at about 8:30 in the morning, and you’ll see a group of…
Events Bulletin
Learning Piano 300: Then and Now The School of Music presents a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the piano. This…
For the Record
Policies and Procedures Staff Directory Updates Work is under way to produce the 2000-01 UW–Madison Staff Directory. During the week of…
Hoofer classes promote education, prevention
Hoofers Outdoor Recreation, one of 10 student-run committees of the Wisconsin Union Directorate, is the largest and oldest campus outdoor recreation organization in the nation.
New process aims to improve improvement
A number of academic departments and other campus units are learning make decisions faster and better using a new way of working together, called Accelerated Improvement, a tool for quickly improving or creating a process.
Ancient kiln technology yields modern art
The proof is in the pottery. Proof, that is, of why a wood-fired kiln is worth all the smoke and ashes and interminable stoking. Student and faculty artists anxiously awaited that verdict last week as they unloaded their work from a new Japanese-style kiln constructed on Picnic Point.
Milestones
Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail:…
Newsmakers
(Every week faculty and staff from across campus are featured or cited in newspapers, magazines, broadcasts and other media from around the…
News in brief
LEADERSHIP Chávez Dean of students named Alicia Fedelina Chávez of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has been named dean…
Webcast gives Ojibwa radio a world audience
Combining interests in technology, journalism and Native American culture, two College of Letters and Science staff members are collaborating with a Native American radio station in northern Wisconsin to 'webcast' to an international audience.
Open house planned for August
Building on the success of a similar event during last year's university sesquicentennial, UW–Madison's Open House Weekend will be held Aug. 18-20.
Recent sightings
Mother’s little helper It’s time to turn the earth in Madison’s community gardens. At Eagle Heights, for example, a mother and son…
Better pest controls mean safer potatoes
University research is helping state potato growers dramatically reduce the chemicals they use to manage what traditionally has been a pesticide-intensive crop.
Union Theater books music by the masters
The Wisconsin Union Theater's 2000-01 season line-up will range from chamber works to foot-stomping Celtic fiddling.