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Visiting dance duo headline faculty concert
Guest artists-in-residence Terese Freedman and Jim Coleman will make their Madison debut with two original works in the Dance Program's Faculty Concert, 'Epilogue '99.'
Hospital program treats under-insured HIV patients
Using a three-year, $1.2 million grant, UW Hospital in the past year has treated 103 HIV-positive individuals who do not have adequate health insurance.
Rose Bowl Information
Information about Rose Bowl tickets and tour packages.
Forecast at the Biotron: Rosy climates for scientists, industry
As a place where scientists can order their own designer climates, the university's Biotron serves up frozen tundra, ocean depths, arid desert and mountaintops all on the same floor.
Card sharks to swarm campus
Ready, set, shuffle! The first 'Bicycle Wild Collegiate Card Tournament' is scheduled Saturday, Dec. 11, from noon to 6 p.m. in the Union South Games Room.
Hospital bridges language gap
UW Hospital and Clinics will soon add a third Spanish interpreter to help communicate with Spanish-speaking patients whose numbers have increased an estimated 100 percent in the last two years. The hospital is taking other steps to make sure staff effectively communicate important medical information in a variety of languages.
Message understood: Communicating with hospital employees
Patients haven't been the only beneficiaries of the UW Hospital and Clinics' efforts to accommodate shifts in Madison's cultural make-up. UW Hospital contracted last spring with MATC to begin offering English-as-a-second-language (ESL) courses to first- and second-shift employees--at the hospital's expense.
Tickets top 10,000 for Badgers vs. Tennessee
Ticket sales for the Wisconsin women's basketball match up against Tennessee Sunday, Dec. 5, have been brisk with 10,032 sold as of Nov. 30, according to athletic officials.
Project aims to share health information across state
With the help of a strategic planning grant, the UW Health Sciences IAIMS Initiative is laying the groundwork for a well-coordinated and faculty-driven approach to more effective sharing of health information resources in the 21st century.
New DoIT director named
Ann Stunden of Cornell University will be the new director of the Division of Information Technology and campus chief information officer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Provost John Wiley announced Monday, Nov. 29.
Letters and Science reorganizes student services
A new structure for student academic services should make it easier for undergraduates in the College of Letters and Science to get the services they need.
UW librarian publishes trivia book
Ray Hamel, a librarian in the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center Library, is the author of the newly released New York Times Trivia Quiz Book.
Joseph Robinson receives prestigious pharmacy award
The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists has conferred its 1999 Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award - the highest honor from the pharmaceutical world's most respected scientific association - on Joseph R. Robinson, professor of pharmacy and ophthalmology at the School of Pharmacy.
Popular science holiday program ‘sold out’
The ever-popular holiday lectures of Bassam Shakhashiri, scientific spectacles intended to amaze audiences through the power and fun of science, are "sold out," its organizer said Monday, Nov. 29.
Study of potential cancer treatment begins at UW
The UW Comprehensive Cancer Center Tuesday, Nov. 23 received official approval to begin a clinical trial of the first human test of endostatin, a naturally occurring protein and potentially promising cancer treatment that has been shown to cut off the blood supply to tumors in mice.
Traditional Wisconsin pathway into dairying takes a detour
Compared with established dairy farmers, new dairy farmers in Wisconsin are much less likely to be taking over the farm from their parents, and they're more likely to use off-farm income to supplement their farm income, according to researchers with the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Puzzle of galactic evolution solved
Massive clouds of gas, discovered long ago but only recently identified as being within the margins of the Milky Way, play a key role in the ability of the galaxy to churn out new stars by raining gas onto the plane of the galaxy, a new report suggests.
Campus streets, parking closed during antenna installation
The Office of Transportation Services is advising students and others who park in university lots on weekends that Lot 51 between Charter and Mills streets and Lot 91 east of the Kohl Center will be closed Saturday, Nov. 27, and possibly Sunday, Nov. 28.
Business course links students worldwide
A new Web-based international business course links teams of students from UW–Madison with teams of students from universities in Italy, Chile and Hong Kong.
UW offers new dairy management program
The Department of Dairy Science in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is expanding its curriculum options for 1999 with the addition of a Dairy Enterprise Management specialization program.