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Safety first, science second when the lab shakes, rattles and rolls
For Chuck DeMets, a professor of geology and geophysics, his most recent brush with divine opportunity came on Jan. 22 in a Colima, Mexico, hotel room when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake sent a barefoot DeMets and his Mexican field assistant Patti Zamora scrambling for the safety of the open street.
Recent Sightings
Signed and sealed Written on a closet-door jamb, signatures and dates record the generations of painters who have coated the…
Wisconsin recognizes pioneering black athletes
Every institution of higher learning has a hidden history regarding the involvement of African Americans on their intercollegiate sports teams. UW–Madison has made an effort to retrieve the stories of path-making black players through the work of Gregory Bond, a Ph.D. researcher in American history.
If we back off now, we may be in worse shape later
When it comes to dealing with Saddam Hussein, "the genie is out of the bottle," and the Bush administration will now have a very difficult time backing down, says emeritus law professor Gordon Baldwin.
Unger’s career blessed with a shakey start
Beneath Bill Unger's pedestrian title of "research program manager in the UW–Madison Department of Geology and Geophysics" is a career that spans four decades and all the world's continents.
Events Bulletin
Directory Lists Youth Programs More than 90 classes, camps, workshops, and other activities for children and teens are featured in UW–Madison’s new Programs…
Announcements
Direct Deposit of Payroll Checks Business Services encourages faculty and staff to consider direct deposit for paychecks. Some benefits of direct deposit include:…
Milestones
Honored The Arts Institute announces the recipients of the 2003 awards in the arts, which recognize creative inquiry, outreach and professional excellence.
For the Record
Policies and procedures Pesticide Use Policy In accordance with the university’s stormwater permit and Pesticide Use Policy, pesticide applicators are to…
Phenology
As winter bids adieu and spring tiptoes toward us, we are highlighting phenological occurrences that many of us might easily miss or take for granted as we go about our busy lives.
Highland Avenue detour starting Monday, March 17
An enclosed pedestrian walkway linking the School of Pharmacy building (Rennebohm Hall) with the new Health Sciences Learning Center will be built over Highland Avenue starting March 17.
Iraqis caught ‘between the devil and the deep blue sea’
Mohammad Douglah, faculty associate of continuing and vocational education in the Department of Agricultural Journalism, says Iraq needs to be liberated by Iraqis, with help from the United States.
Grad students endeavor to inspire reading Du Bois essays
Whole new worlds of human experience, history, vehicles of expression and even her own American past opened wide to Michelle Gordon when she first read W.E.B. Du Bois' landmark collection of essays, "The Souls of Black Folk."
Month-long science open house set for April
This April, UW–Madison welcomes learners of all ages to explore the campus and experience science as discovery during a month-long open house called 'Science Expeditions.'
Conferences to examine Caribbean, African land issues
This month, the Land Tenure Center at UW–Madison is helping organize conferences that examine critical land issues in two very different areas of the world: the Caribbean and southern Africa.
Why Wisconsin e-businesses should prepare to collect taxes
Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton) and Diane Hardt, tax administrator for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and co-chair of the Streamlined Sales Tax Project, will discuss Internet taxation and more at a half-day workshop on e-business legal issues sponsored by the UW Consortium for Global eCommerce.
Investigation supports decision to let accused players compete, offers ways to prevent future incidents
An investigation by the UW–Madison chancellor's office into allegations that a small number of football players cheated on a take-home final examination reaffirms the chancellor's original decision to let them compete in the 2002 Alamo Bowl, Dec. 28.
Public hearing set on west campus cogeneration facility
UW-Madison will hold a public hearing on Thursday, March 13 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on proposed west campus power plant facility options.
UW library books sale March 5-8
The largest used book sale in Wisconsin, to be held March 5-8 at UW–Madison will include more than 15,000 books covering almost any subject.
Afro-American studies evolves into global player
Even as it busily prepares for a landmark symposium on African-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois, the Department of Afro-American Studies is reinventing itself.