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Tandem Press teams with Salon 2000 for innovative exhibition

February 17, 1999

UW-Madison's Tandem Press and beauty purveyor Salon 2000 plan to inaugurate a series of print shows with the work of Los Angeles artist Charles Arnoldi.

UW names Thomas Towell as interim licensing director

February 17, 1999

A retired Madison advertising executive has been named interim director of trademark licensing at UW–Madison.

Campus traffic alert: Lot 82 access restricted

February 17, 1999

Due to the major expansion project currently underway at the Waisman Center, the Highland Avenue entry drive to the center's parking lot (Lot 82) has been closed for an extended period of time.

Prisons vs. Social programs: Experts examine key issues in justice

February 17, 1999

Is our money better spent locking up criminals or trying to rehabilitate them through social programs? And do existing social programs alter behavior in ways that reduce crime? National experts in criminal justice policy will examine these questions.

Lecture focuses on racial disparity in wealth

February 17, 1999

Melvin Oliver, vice president of the Asset Building and Community Development Program for The Ford Foundation, will lecture on wealth disparity between the races Wednesday, Feb 17 as part of UW–Madison's University Lecture Series.

UW staff honored for disabled access technology

February 16, 1999

The National Partnership for Reinventing Government recently presented the coveted Hammer Award to a team led by the Department of Education, including three people from UW–Madison.

Improved solar energy system wins top honor in annual student contest

February 15, 1999

A proposal for an improved solar energy system made a UW–Madison freshman $10,000 richer last Thursday at the Schoofs Prize for Creativity competition.

Up-and-coming faculty receive 1999 Romnes Fellowships

February 15, 1999

Eight UW–Madison faculty have been awarded 1999 Romnes Fellowships for extraordinary achievement at an early stage in their careers.

Clarke Square is national model for health care

February 12, 1999

Clarke Square Family Health Center - the nation's only comprehensive health care clinic in a grocery -- represents the future of family medicine, according to UW–Madison leaders involved in the project.

Metamorphosis on ice

February 12, 1999

At the Kohl Center on a recent Saturday afternoon, the pressure was building not only on the men's basketball team playing right then, but also on eight crews of workers quietly assembling in the bowels of the arena.

Nobel Prize winner to present neuroscience 25th anniversary lecture

February 12, 1999

A Nobel Prize winner whose work dramatically changed our understanding of how the brain creates our visual world will present a free public lecture Feb. 15 as the first in a series of events celebrating 25 years of neuroscience training on campus.

Scientists discover key cog in receptor that governs ripening

February 11, 1999

Digging deep into the protein molecules that govern ripening and aging in plants, scientists have found an ion of copper -- and a genetic link to some of the oldest life forms on the planet.

AIDS activist and playwright to speak

February 11, 1999

The possibility of a lesbian or gay president of the United States: remote, likely, irrelevant? Playwright and novelist Larry Kramer will discuss that prospect and other topics in a lecture Monday, Feb. 22 at UW–Madison.

Infant care center to expand on-campus child care options

February 10, 1999

New infant care centers scheduled to open on campus in the coming year will offer up to 20 new openings for children ages six weeks to 30 months.

Gypsy moth seminar on campus

February 10, 1999

The current status of the gypsy moth in Wisconsin and the Madison area will be discussed at a forum to be hosted by the Department of Entomology.

Decorated metro buses debut

February 9, 1999

A trio of Madison Metro buses brightly decorated in honor of the sesquicentennial will begin transporting passengers around campus early next month.

Witte named director of La Follette Institute

February 9, 1999

A professor whose family has been linked to UW–Madison for four generations has been named director of the Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs.

Fauna versus flora

February 8, 1999

Like Aldo Leopold before him, UW–Madison botanist Don Waller is about to take an unpopular stand on Wisconsin's booming deer herd.

For Leopold, radical measures of control took a toll

February 8, 1999

Some 50 years ago, Aldo Leopold, UW–Madison professor of wildlife ecology and environmental icon, sounded the first alarm about Wisconsin's looming overabundance of deer.

Major gifts to Arboretum support capital projects

February 8, 1999

A vastly improved experience for visitors is in store at the UW Arboretum, where two major gifts totaling more than $1 million will enable construction of a new auditorium and other enhancements to facilities and programs.