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New program takes grassroots approach to training school leaders

December 5, 2007

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. Read More

Basketball, hockey up next for network

December 5, 2007

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. Read More

Employee Matters

December 5, 2007

This column is prepared by staff from the Office of Human Resources. E-mail questions to benefits@ohr.wisc.edu or call 262-5650. For more information, visit Payroll and Benefits Services. Read More

State approves new employee pay plan

December 5, 2007

A boost in pay for UW System faculty and academic staff was given the go-ahead by state lawmakers last week. Read More

Administrative Process Redesign moves forward

December 5, 2007

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. Read More

Settlement prompts heating plant improvements

December 5, 2007

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. Read More

Family, memories at core of anthropologist’s new book

December 5, 2007

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. Read More

For the Record

December 5, 2007

Wisconsin Week, the newspaper of record for UW–Madison, carries legally required notices for faculty and staff. Read More

Stem-cell discovery a global media force

December 5, 2007

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 Read More

Prof guides future generations of female scientists

December 5, 2007

When Jean Bahr believes in something, she doesn’t hesitate to act. Read More

WAA offers fans more reasons to cheer at Outback Bowl

December 5, 2007

University of Wisconsin fans heading to the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla., are making plans to cheer on the Badgers, ring in the New Year and even follow the Pack. Read More

Katen-Bahensky named president and CEO of UW Hospital and Clinics

December 5, 2007

Donna Katen-Bahensky, CEO at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and senior associate vice president for medical affairs at University of Iowa Health Care since 2002, has been named president and CEO of University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. She will join the hospital effective Feb. 4, 2008. Read More

Recent sightings: Winter scenes

December 5, 2007

Bundled for winter weather, pedestrians walk along a snow-covered sidewalk along Park Street. More than five inches of snow fell on the… Read More

Waistline growth on high-carb diets linked to liver gene

December 4, 2007

Experts have been warning for years that foods loaded with high-fructose corn syrup and other processed carbohydrates are making us fatter. Now, a University of Wisconsin–Madison study has uncovered the genetic basis for why this is so. Read More

Study: Faculty-student planning can reduce textbook costs

December 3, 2007

Textbook costs continue to grow, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison will do even more to help students plan for the expenses and learn of ways to keep them in check. Read More

Additional efforts assist in managing texbook costs

December 3, 2007

Numerous efforts are already under way to assist students in managing textbook costs. As part of the Textbook Costs Task Force, the university plans to do more to make students aware of these options. Read More

What lies beneath: Growth of root cells remarkably dynamic, study finds

December 3, 2007

A new UW–Madison study, publishing online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that certain plant cells pulse as they grow. Read More

Recent sightings: AIDS Memorial Quilt

December 3, 2007

A roll of red stickers with the shape of an AIDS ribbon fill the foreground as audience members listen to a music… Read More

Recent sightings: Christmas Tree Sale

December 1, 2007

Members of the UW Forestry Club assist patrons buying Fraser fir, balsam fir and white pine Christmas trees and wreaths during the… Read More