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Badger Safety conference planned
The UW Police Department will hold its second annual Badger Watch Safety Conference on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Memorial Union from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The event is free and open to all members of the university community.
Roundtable features spoken word
An end-of-semester tradition for many faculty and staff members is attending the December session of University Roundtable. Attendees join colleagues and friends for lunch, listening and learning throughout the year, but in December, the audience is treated to a performance by students, faculty or staff.
DuPont fellowship funds address plant breeder shortage
In 2008, DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred seed business will provide the plant breeding and plant genetics program with a $60,000 grant, renewable annually for five years, to support two new graduate fellowships.
Gangsters, dark comedy featured in film festival
The 17th installment of the Polish Film Festival returns to the Madison campus Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9.
ESPN’s Van Pelt to address mid-year graduates
ESPN SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt, who has declared Madison to be America’s best college sports town, will deliver the charge to the graduates at the university's winter commencement ceremonies on Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Kohl Center. He will speak at both the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. ceremonies.
Thome named WARF’s director of investments
Carrie J. Thome has been named director of investments at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
Milestones
Baha Balantekin, Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics, has been elected to the Executive Board of the American Physical Society (APS). Mary Behan was named…
Book documents gender disparities in retirement
Gender gaps that women experience on the job and in the home continue into retirement. Women older than 65 are twice as likely as men to live below the poverty line.
New program takes grassroots approach to training school leaders
Schools across the United States today face more pressure than ever to boost student performance levels and close the gaps in achievement between students of different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. While many schools are struggling to make adequate progress, others have developed strategies that are contributing to significant improvements.
Basketball, hockey up next for network
The Big Ten Network is gearing up for winter sports coverage, even as the network and cable television giants arm wrestle over where the network can be viewed.
Employee Matters
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State approves new employee pay plan
A boost in pay for UW System faculty and academic staff was given the go-ahead by state lawmakers last week.
Administrative Process Redesign moves forward
The campus’s grassroots effort to build better administrative practices and systems is on schedule and preparing to reach out nationally to see how other universities have faced the same challenges.
Settlement prompts heating plant improvements
A legal settlement between the state and an environmental group will result in less coal being burned at the Charter Street Heating Plant and sets the stage for major improvements at the facility.
Family, memories at core of anthropologist’s new book
A UW–Madison anthropologist first decided to write a book about her family when she was 10 years old, a decision she made while growing up in Bombay, the child of an American mother and an Indian father.
For the Record
Wisconsin Week, the newspaper of record for UW–Madison, carries legally required notices for faculty and staff.
Stem-cell discovery a global media force
When a scientific advance is hailed as “the biological equivalent of the Wright Brothers’ first airplane,” it stands to reason that the work will grab worldwide attentionn
Prof guides future generations of female scientists
When Jean Bahr believes in something, she doesn’t hesitate to act.