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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… Read More
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… Read More
Events Bulletin
Learning Piano 300: Then and Now The School of Music presents a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the piano. This… Read More
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… Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. 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
Newsmakers
(Every week faculty and staff from across campus are featured or cited in newspapers, magazines, broadcasts and other media from around the… Read More
News in brief
LEADERSHIP Chávez Dean of students named Alicia Fedelina Chávez of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has been named dean… Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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… Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Honorary degree recipients to address grads
Three of five honorary degree recipients will deliver the 'Charge to the Graduates' at ceremonies May 20-21. Read More
Scientist’s goal: Control mosquito-borne diseases
The very thought of it can make you itch. Bruce Christensen pops open the door of a sealed research room about the size of a walk-in freezer. Except this room radiates with dank, tropical heat and is full of cloth-covered containers crawling with armies of hungry mosquitoes. Read More
Wildlife collection will aid study of species
James Borman has moved on to the happy hunting ground, but his legacy will touch people throughout Wisconsin. Over his lifetime, he assembled a massive collection of preserved wildlife specimens from North America and elsewhere. Borman, who died in 1999, willed the collection to the university. Read More
Hagen to lead student drama workshops
Tony Award-winning actress Uta Hagen plans to do a workshop forstudents during her visit next week to accept an honorary degree. Read More