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Sesquicentennial concert Feb. 7 to recall landmark visit by Ellington
As part of his week, Ellington composed "The U-Wisc Suite," which the UW Jazz Ensemble will perform as part of the university's 150th Anniversary Concert Sunday, Feb. 7 at 1 p.m.
Sesquicentennial snapshot
UW-Madison will commemorate its 150th anniversary and 15 decades of service to Wisconsin and its citizens starting next month.
ISIS transition continues through spring
The implementation of the new student records system at UW–Madison continues as planned and should be completed by late spring.
New exhibition celebrates UW art faculty’s diversity
A stroll through the 1999 art faculty exhibition, opening at the Elvehjem Museum of Art Saturday, Jan. 30, will reveal virtually the entire scope of late 20th century American art forms.
Research describes human origins debate before Darwin
When Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was first published in 1859, the intellectual and spiritual controversy that colors nearly any discussion of where humans come from was already a two-decade-old phenomenon in the United States.
Flu season arrives on campus
Influenza season is here officially, now that the University Health Services and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene have recently confirmed a case of influenza in a UW–Madison student.
Oscar Mayer creates business scholarships for students of color
The Oscar Mayer Division of Kraft Foods Inc., has given the School of Business $40,000 to help recruit, retain and educate students of color.
Tickets available for sesquicentennial gala
Tickets are still available for the Sesquicentennial Scholarship Gala, a grand event planned for Saturday, Feb. 6, that will feature original performances, fine dining and dancing until midnight.
Quality child care can carry social benefits for kids
If the quality is there, children in all varieties of child care show greater confidence with peers and more compliance with adults, according to one of the most expansive studies ever of child care in America.
Distinguished psychologist Robert Goy dies at 74
Robert W. Goy, administrator, educator and pioneering investigator of the origins of sex differences in behavior, died Jan. 14 from cardiovascular and metabolic complications. He would have been 75 on Jan. 25.
History department plans to honor Mosse
Plans are pending in the UW–Madison Department of History for a memorial recalling the life and scholarship of George Mosse, the department's Bascom-Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies. Mosse died Friday, Jan. 22 from liver cancer.
Future of West tied to saving, not extracting, the land
The road to economic stability for the west today, argues a UW–Madison rural sociologist, is one that takes an ironic twist to the frontier axiom that "all wealth comes from the land."
Code of conduct forum set for Jan. 26
UW-Madison will hold its second public forum Jan. 26 on a proposed code of conduct for manufacturers of university apparel and other merchandise.
Research describes human origins debate before Darwin
The role of Nostratic - a hypothetical language first thought to have been uttered more than 12,000 years ago - in the development of human language has raged for more than a century in the fields of linguistics, archeology, anthropology and classics.
Butterflies shed light on biological novelties
How the elephant got its trunk, the deer its antlers and the rattlesnake its rattles may seem like disparate questions of developmental biology, but the origins of these novelties, according to the genes of butterflies, may have much in common.
Professor, students take on death row appeal
At Holman Correctional Facility, just north of the Florida panhandle in Atmore, Ala., Jeffrey Day Rieber waits to die - and some Madison lawyers, UW–Madison law students and a law professor are laboring to prevent his death.
Renaissance sensibilities
Automation librarian Peter Gorman manages to gracefully integrate computers, Old Icelandic language and old-time music into a single life.
Space Place telescope clinic planned Jan. 26
If you have any questions about telescopes and binoculars - using them, maintaining them or shopping for them - your chance is at hand from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, at UW Space Place, 1605 S. Park St.
Participants needed for Down, Fragile X syndrome study
The Waisman Center at UW–Madison is seeking help from families of adolescents with Down syndrome or Fragile X syndrome for a new research project on communication difficulties.
UW housing leaders promote fire prevention
As students return to campus this week, University Housing officials are emphasizing the need for fire prevention.