Memorial symposium planned in honor of former engineering professor

Members of the university community are invited to take part in the Denice D. Denton Memorial Symposium from 8 a.m.–2 p.m. on Monday, July 30, at the Pyle Center.

Denton was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW–Madison from 1987–96. She then became dean of the University of Washington College of Engineering, and in 2005 she was named chancellor of the University of California-Santa Cruz, the position she held at the time of her death on June 24, 2006.

The symposium will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas about how to advance the goals that Denton worked to achieve.

The keynote address will be given by University of Miami president Donna Shalala, who was UW–Madison’s chancellor from 1987–93, and then served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration.

There will be three breakout sessions culminating in the development of a list of “best practices,” and at the conclusion of the symposium, Shalala and others will present the top 10 strategies that resulted from the discussions.

The symposium will be preceded by a reception and dinner at the University Club on Sunday, July 29. Chancellor John Wiley and Denton’s mother, Carolyn Mabee, will speak briefly. There will be limited seating for the dinner.

For the complete agenda and registration information, visit Denice D. Denton Memorial Symposium.