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Mini-Med School opens

September 6, 2002

Ever wonder what your doctor learned in medical school? If so, the Medical School's mini-medical school may be for you. Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 17, the free, six-week lecture series will be held Tuesdays, 7-8:30 p.m., Union South.

Hunt to address human rights for Curti lectures

September 5, 2002

This year's Merle Curti Lectures will be delivered by professor Lynn Hunt of University of California at Los Angeles on 'The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Human Rights' Sept. 16-18 at 4 p.m., Pyle Center.

New learning community opens

August 28, 2002

A new International Learning Community opens this fall with a German language floor in Adams Hall.

Students enrolled in Wisconsin history course go with the flow

August 27, 2002

History professor John Sharpless and 16 students journeyed on a four-week expedition from Oshkosh to the mouth of the Wisconsin River by canoe - making for one of the most unconventional and logistically challenging classes at UW–Madison.

Making UW–Madison manageable for first-year students

August 20, 2002

Freshman interest groups, which operate as mini-learning communities built around a particular theme, are expanding quickly at UW–Madison.

Dual admissions expand

August 19, 2002

The UW–Madison Connections program, a pilot program unveiled in 2001, has expanded to allow dual admission to students from any UW college.

Plants speed science education

August 19, 2002

Wisconsin's Fast Plants has blossomed in the last decade into one of the most successful and widely used science education programs in classrooms worldwide.

Humanities forums address evil and ethics

August 13, 2002

"Evil in the 21st Century: September 11 and Beyond" is the topic of a free public talk by Claudia Card, professor of philosophy at University of Wisconsin–Madison, at 7 p.m, Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Marshall Community Library, 605 Waterloo Road, Marshall.

PEOPLE celebrates results

July 25, 2002

The incoming freshmen class will include 24 graduates of the PEOPLE Program, the first group of participants to enroll at the university.

Students conduct experiments aboard ‘weightless wonder’

July 5, 2002

Adding a new spin to the challenges of engineering, a group of students were literally "in over their heads" this past spring when they took part in the NASA-sponsored Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.

Fun with concrete and bad water

June 19, 2002

More than 1,000 civil engineering students plan to gather this weekend at the university for concrete canoe races, high-speed bridge building and polluted water purification using only common kitchen items.

Study yields new cystic fibrosis findings

June 17, 2002

A new study of newborn screening for cystic fibrosis has added provocative findings to the complicated picture of early intervention against the disease.

Students to work on voting rights museum, institute

May 30, 2002

On May 31, UW–Madison students and staff will embark on a journey to Selma to renovate and develop educational projects for the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute.

After the punch line: What jokes tell us

May 27, 2002

As director of UW–Madison's folklore program, Jim Leary is possibly Wisconsin's best repository of the state's ethnic history and heritage. And he can tell a mean farmer joke. He knows hundreds, gathered from his many travels around the state. Most of them are rare artifacts, plucked from the brains of elderly farmers, tavern owners and townsfolk whom Leary has met over the years. To him, those jokes are to be cherished as much as any fine work of art.