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Status report on UW–Madison employees convicted of felonies
For the past month, newspaper, radio and television reports have blasted the University of Wisconsin–Madison for the way in which it has addressed the following legal cases. The majority of the coverage has been inaccurate and incomplete. Tonight, the Fox News Channel program "The O'Reilly Factor" will take another shot at the university. UW–Madison officials believe the public is entitled to an accurate report that outlines the status of these cases. The following statement has been shared Wednesday with Fox News.
Looking to the Future: Helping 33 million smokers quit
An article published in the Sept. 8, 2005 New England Journal of Medicine sheds new light on the $130 billion smoking cessation plan proposed in the Department of Justice suit against the tobacco companies. The tobacco cessation plan was embroiled in controversy when Department of Justice attorneys reduced the amount proposed for the smoking cessation remedy from $130 billion over 25 years to $10 billion over five years.
Student survey shows surging demand for wireless access
Mobility is the new mantra for student technology usage on campus, according to an annual survey that finds laptop computer ownership about to surpass desktop computers and an expanding interest in wireless access.
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.
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.
Recent sightings
Playing with fire Painting the nighttime sky with streaks of fire, Madison resident Miranda Knox dances on Library Mall to…
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.
Almanac
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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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.â€
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.
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.
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…
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.