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Experts to debate future of public universities
The UW System will weather another significant budget cut over the next two years. Similar reductions in state support for higher education across the country have prompted universities to critically examine their ability to fulfill core missions of teaching, research, and service. Read More
Officials: Avoid construction zones
An ongoing upgrade of central campus utilities has prompted UW–Madison officials to ask pedestrians and motorists to avoid congested campus construction zones, if possible. Read More
Recent sightings
Playing with fire Painting the nighttime sky with streaks of fire, Madison resident Miranda Knox dances on Library Mall to… Read More
Offices present expanded Employee Benefits Fair in October
Employee Compensation and Benefits Services (EC&BS) and the Office of Human Resource Development (OHRD) will work together this year to present the annual UW Employees Benefits Fair on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Read More
Milestones
Honored Lyn Abramson, psychology professor, was named Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychology effective July 1. The professorship includes $75,000 of flexible research support… Read More
Choral Union meeting and auditions planned
Since 1965 town and gown have converged in music, courtesy the UW–Madison Choral Union. Anyone is welcome to audition; this year, director Beverly Taylor will hold the tryouts for sopranos and tenors on Wednesday, Sept. 7, and for altos and bass on Thursday, Sept. 8. Read More
Artists seek ‘Truth, Compassion, Tolerance’
A contingent of artists from around the world, working in media ranging from oil painting, color pencil and sculpture to traditional Chinese painting, will exhibit their work at a special exhibition in the State Capitol Rotunda. Read More
Generations join in ‘Laughing Bodies, Dancing Minds’
Concentrating on “the moment when things happen,” members of Li-Chiao Ping Dance, whose founder is a member of the UW–Madison dance faculty, will join residents of Madison and Stoughton affiliated with senior centers, Crestwood Elementary School and the Madison Jewish Community Council’s Camp Bogrim. Read More
Art of weather under discussion in Chazen lecture
The tricks and techniques that painters use to depict “Weather in Art” will be under discussion on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Steve Ackerman, UW–Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, will consider how landscape artists use paint to create the illusion of atmospheric and weather conditions. Read More
Pivot Points exhibit travels to Art Department
The exhibition Pivot Points will be on display Sept. 9-23 at the Art Department Gallery. The three-year traveling exhibition of abstract painting on paper and poetry brings together three generations of painters and poets examining the ties of mentorship. Read More
Professor takes grassroots health care to the world
Linda Baumann is a professor of nursing as well as a master sailor in charge of the spinnaker on her 25-foot Kirby sailboat “Annie Allen.†Read More
Artist in residence to be featured in forum
Wisconsin Public Radio’s Lori Skelton will host a public forum with the world-renowned conductor, composer and scholar Gunther Schuller about his life and work. Read More
Writer’s Choice
Tales told in music from around the world will supply the theme of the second annual World Music Fest, this year on Thursday, Sept. 15-Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Memorial Union. Read More
For the record
Wisconsin Idea Endowment Call for Proposals The Office of the Provost is soliciting proposals from faculty, staff and students for the fourth annual… Read More
Art, science make ‘Starry Transit’ in historic observatory
What artist Martha Glowacki sees in the night sky is a larger cycle of life, death and transformation, she says. Consequently, her new multifaceted, multidisciplinary installation, “Starry Transit,”is about different takes on the natural world. Read More
Book Smart
It may surprise you that sugarcane first arrived in Jamaica from Java and the South Pacific in the second half of the 18th century. Read More
University Club to remain open to public through September
The University Club has announced that it will be open to the public through the end of September, among other recent changes. Read More
CIRTL provides new resources for teaching the sciences
Instructors can take the initiative to include all students in the sciences, by using new teaching resources produced by the diversity team at the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL). Read More