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UW-Madison awarded international business center

February 27, 1998

UW-Madison has been named one of 25 universities in the nation to have a Center for International Business Education and Research.

Eight faculty receive Mid-Career Awards

February 26, 1998

Eight faculty who have excelled in the first half of their careers have received a boost for the second half through UW–Madison's 1998 Mid-Career Awards.

Romnes Awards honor 10 rising faculty stars

February 26, 1998

Ten of UW–Madison's top young faculty have received 1998 Romnes Awards, which help reward new professors who are making an immediate mark on their fields.

JASON Web site brings Great Lakes fish to Madison-area schools

February 26, 1998

The UW Sea Grant Institute recently unveiled the Madison JASON IX Web site, which features ten fish that live in the Great Lakes.

‘Turbo Mule’ wins student invention competition

February 26, 1998

Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about carrying items from one place to another. Three students who did have won $10,000 for their effort.

WPT documentary captures Badger football history

February 25, 1998

The players, passion and pageantry of UW football are captured in 'U Rah Rah Wisconsin: A History of Badger Football,' a new documentary produced by Wisconsin Public Television.

Cargill helps UW expand international internship offerings

February 25, 1998

The Minneapolis-based Cargill Corp. is helping UW–Madison students take their first plunge into the global marketplace.

Math professor earns Birkhoff Prize

February 24, 1998

Paul H. Rabinowitz, a professor of mathematics, has been awarded the 1998 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics.

‘Ice Storm’ Screenwriter To Visit UW–Madison

February 24, 1998

Screenwriter and independent producer James Schamus will make a visit to campus in the wake of publicity over his most critically acclaimed work.

DoIT announces student trainee program

February 24, 1998

A Student Computer Network Trainee Program has been created by the DoIT as a way to meet the shortage of qualified employees in the computing field, give students marketable skills and help fill the need for computing staff on campus.

Oscar-winning computer graphics pioneer reveals tricks in new course

February 24, 1998

A few dozen select students this spring are learning the ropes from a guy who invented one of Today's Big Things: A software program that helps movie-makers bend the laws of nature.

UW seeks county support for student radio tower

February 23, 1998

An effort to bring UW–Madison student radio to the airwaves has cleared nearly every hurdle, but a battle over the proposed radio tower site could end the plan.

Proquest brings 2,000 journals to your desktop

February 23, 1998

The General Library System has added more horsepower to its collection of electronic databases: Proquest Research Library.

Aberle named dean of College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

February 20, 1998

Elton D. Aberle, head of the animal sciences department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was named today as dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences by Chancellor David Ward.

Several graduate programs ranked high by U.S. News

February 20, 1998

Several academic programs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ranked high in the 1998 rating of graduate programs released today (Feb. 20) by U.S. News & World Report.

What’s in an ecosystem? New journal seeks to answer

February 19, 1998

UW-Madison zoology Professors Monica G. Turner and Stephen R. Carpenter are the first co-editors of Ecosystems, a new journal intended to be a focal point for original research, reviews, editorials and special features on ecosystem ecology.

The Leopold Legacy: Zedler cultivates UW’s rich tradition in restoration ecology

February 19, 1998

As the new Aldo Leopold Chair of Restoration Ecology, Joy Zedler will be cultivating the legacy of one of UW–Madison's most influential professors, a man whose ideas form the roots of modern conservation.

Whose welfare? Book calls for new attention to children

February 19, 1998

As new welfare reform programs take effect across the nation, more effort is needed to measure how those reforms will impact children, according to a new book edited by sociology professor Robert Hauser.

Filmmaker named to creative-arts professorship

February 19, 1998

Nietzchka Keene has been named to the Emily Mead Baldwin Bell-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts, effective July 1. The appointment was approved Feb. 6 by the UW System Board of Regents.

Art, music to collaborate in UW–Madison concert

February 19, 1998

'Picture' this: artist Gronk wielding amplified paint brushes to conduct the acclaimed Kronos Quartet in the Midwest premiere of composer Joseph Julian Gonzales' 'La Tormenta Cantata.'