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Humorist McBride highlights cancer survivors week

May 25, 2000

Humorist Mary McBride, the top writer for comedian Phyllis Diller for 30 years, will be the featured speaker for the kick-off of Cancer Survivors Week, May 30-June 3 at the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center located at UW Hospital and Clinics. Read More

International Institute receives $6.1 million

May 25, 2000

The International Institute will receive more than $6.1 million in federal grants over the next three years for five existing programs and two new centers. Read More

Great Lakes ‘seasons’ may reflect a warming trend

May 24, 2000

Scrutinizing a 139-year record of Great Lakes water levels, a UW–Madison scientist has discovered a dramatic shift in the seasonal changes in water levels on the Great Lakes. Read More

UW leads landmark lung cancer study

May 23, 2000

Researchers from the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center announced May 22 results from a landmark research trial that shows chemotherapy offers survival benefits for advanced lung cancer patients. Read More

UHS changes hours

May 23, 2000

University Health Services has changed its hours of service. Read More

Conference to focus on affordable housing issues

May 22, 2000

A Milwaukee housing conference sponsored by the Business School will focus on the overriding policy issues that affect affordable housing today and will guide the future. Read More

Space station beckons ice cloud project

May 22, 2000

Sometime in the year 2003, if all goes well, a UW–Madison experiment, designed to probe the nearly invisible ice clouds of Earth, will be hitched by astronauts to the International Space Station. Read More

New round of cluster hires set to begin

May 19, 2000

The university plans to hire 25 new faculty in its latest round of cluster hiring as part of the Madison Initiative, Provost John Wiley says. Read More

Humanities center schedules Jane Austen festival

May 19, 2000

The Center for Humanities kicks off its inaugural year with a schedule of public lectures and community-wide events including a lecture series and festival featuring fans and foes of 18th- century author Jane Austen. Read More

Sun Microsystems supercomputer to advance genomics

May 18, 2000

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and UW–Madison today, May 18, announced the expansion of a decade-long relationship enabling the campus to acquire a $2.5 million supercomputer for genetics research. Read More

Pre-college program expands to Madison, Racine

May 17, 2000

The university's innovative pre-college program for minority and disadvantaged students is expanding this summer to Madison and Racine. Read More

Chancellor search panel named

May 17, 2000

A 21-member committee chaired by Bernice Durand, professor of physics, will search for a successor to Chancellor David Ward, who will step down on Dec. 31. Read More

Advances

May 16, 2000

(Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries by e-mailing: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.)… Read More

Ambling through Allen Centennial Gardens

May 16, 2000

Let us amble through the amber sunshine in Allen Centennial Gardens, a horticultural jewel across from Steenbock Library that will brighten even this luminescent spring morning. Read More

Almanac

May 16, 2000

(Almanac lists facts, figures and miscellany of campus interest. Know something, or want to know? Call us: 262-3846, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.)… Read More

Awards briefs

May 16, 2000

School of Ed honors staff The School of Education presented its annual Distinguished Achievement Awards to six faculty and staff members earlier… Read More

Awards wrap-up

May 16, 2000

New award recognizes academic collaboration Faculty collaborations to yield new courses Returning-student awards recognize struggle, triumph Scholarships awarded to students by… Read More

50 years later, they’re gone

May 16, 2000

After a half-century, the 'temporary' buildings on the west end of campus have crumbled under the claw of an excavator, making way for something more permanent - the Engineering Centers Building. Read More

Calendar briefs

May 16, 2000

Top actress Hagen to lead student drama workshops Tony Award-winning actress Uta Hagen plans to do a workshop for UW–Madison students during her… Read More

Campus retirees gather under watchful presence of former housing worker

May 16, 2000

Drop by Lums Family Restaurant on the fourth Wednesday of any month at about 8:30 in the morning, and you’ll see a group of… Read More