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University assesses its fiscal future
The UW System and UW–Madison are planning for the possibility that the 2003-05 state budget will contain another round of funding cuts.
Tongue device taken to national competition
A team of inventive undergraduate students headed to New York City last week to compete at the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition, sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The students took with them a tongue-toning device they designed that could help the 15 million adults who have health problems related to swallowing.
Professional development offered to grad students
In a new effort to help graduate students acquire and sharpen the professional development skills necessary for career success, the Graduate School has combined a new program of professional development with its Office of Outreach Services. The new unit, the Office of Outreach and Graduate Student Professional Development, is intended to provide opportunities for graduate students in all disciplines to gain experience and insight into such broad skill sets as writing, public speaking, Web and software development, administration and ethics.
Upgrades will reshape west campus
With the Health Sciences Learning Center under construction and several more west campus facilities planned in the next few years, campus planners are in the process of addressing needs to improve the university's utility and transportation infrastructure.
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Classified Employees Annual Leave Conversion Option
Windows close, services open
After 38 years and tens of thousands of students served, the Office of the Registrar recently ended window service in Peterson Office Building. To streamline services, those of the final window, Window 24, have now been merged into the office's customer service center in Room 123.
Consider leading a FIG
Faculty members seeking ways to improve the transcultural skills of undergraduates and make a difference in retention should consider leading a First-Year Interest Group next year.
Fish to lead facilities planning and management
Alan R. Fish, an administrator with more than 23 years of experience with UW–Madison and the State of Wisconsin, has been selected as the university's new associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management, Chancellor John Wiley announced today (Tuesday, Nov. 19).
Students partner with Oakwood
A new partnership between the School of Human Ecology and the Oakwood Village Retirement Communities is enabling students of interior design to help Oakwood evaluate its newest facility this semester.
Sightings
Got storage? The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) sure does. Housed in a secure facility, an IBM Enterprise Storage Server —…
Adventurous learning
For most of us, a typical vacation does not include sleeping on the floor of a preschool classroom, digging fence-post holes or washing stacks of dishes. Yet two groups of students and alumni had the chance to do all this — and more — during a summer week of labor, laughter and learning spent volunteering on the Blackfeet Reservation in the far northwestern corner of Montana.
Educator explores better K-12 schools
An address by Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University professor of education, will highlight the School of Education's annual celebration of American Education Week.
Study finds options to slow resistance to Bt corn
According to a study published in the current issue (Nov. 1, 2002) of the journal Ecology Letters, the current federally backed strategy to slow resistance to the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin could be altered to permit the normal application of pesticides to crop refuges without risking the overall resistance prevention strategy.
Panel tackles the hidden effects of prison spending
On Nov. 20, from 5-7 pm, in the Memorial Union, a panel of Madison-area activists and professionals will discuss the issue of increased state spending on prisons and how youth, people of color, residents of rural communities, and others feel the impact.
Parallel Press releases Feraca poetry collection
Madison-area poet, essayist and public radio host Jean Feraca examines the complexities of relationships, and the illness and death of her mother in a recently published collection of poetry, "Rendered into Paradise."
Skywatchers brace for a storm of meteors
If astronomers' predictions are correct - and if Wisconsin gets a break from its chronically cloudy November weather - skywatchers will be in for a rare treat next Tuesday, Nov. 19, as the annual Leonid meteor shower has been upgraded to a show of stormy proportions.
Fall faculty dance concert ‘bound’ to please
New York choreographer Heidi Latsky freely admits to being fearful ever since Sept. 11. To allay those fears, she did what she does best - she made a dance. Bound, the group work she created to help transform fear into positive energy, will be showcased in the UW Fall Faculty Dance Concert Nov. 21-23. Curtain time is 8 p.m. in the Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.
Registrar finalists named for UW–Madison
The university has narrowed the field of candidates for university registrar to four finalists.
Human rights leader to lecture
Internationally recognized human rights leader Mary Burton will speak on "Aspects of Reconciliation: Acknowledgement, Atonement and Redress" at 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Pyle Center.
New study open to men with advanced prostate cancer
Men with advanced prostate cancer that has become resistant to hormone therapy may be candidates for a new research study that seeks to determine whether a Vitamin D-like compound known as Hectoral enhances the impact of a chemotherapy treatment commonly known as Taxotere¨.