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Blues performer reschedules class appearance
The "Schwall" half of the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band will demonstrate blues styles to a university class on Thursday, March 22, rescheduled from March 29. Students in the Blues Legacies course - and anyone interested - can listen to Schwall during the class, which meets at 1:20 p.m. at Luther's Blues Club, 1401 University Ave.
‘Undesirable Elements’ combines varied backgrounds
Ping Chong, internationally renowned artist-in-residence at the university, plans to deconstruct cultural assumptions thourh "Undesirable Elements," a performance piece to be presented at UW–Madison March 22-23.
Students offer neighborhood design suggestions
Inside every rubble-infested, garbage-strewn, rodent-molested urban backlot is an inviting city square waiting to break free. Perhaps it is waiting for Sarah Schultz, one of 20 students in Martin Bailkey's landscape architecture classes. The courses require students to design ways to improve spaces in inner-city Milwaukee.
Class to discover ‘Blues Legacies’
A new class this semester takes 25 students where the blues actually happens. On selected Thursday afternoons through April 26, Ronald Radano's Blues Legacies course will meet in Luther's Blues Club. And any UW–Madison student or member of the larger community is invited to join them.
Course evaluations sought by ASM
Academic departments have until Friday, March 9, to submit course and instructor evaluations for fall 2000 to Associated Students of Madison, according to the Provost's Office.
Alchemists’ greatest hits now on disk
Turning base metals such as lead or copper into silver or gold, the dream of alchemists in the Middle Ages, never came to be. But the conversion of a 400-year-old alchemical classic into a virtual resource available worldwide certainly appears golden.
Professor donates collection of Italian history �
Jack Fry, Hilldale Professor of Physics emeritus at UW–Madison, is donating to the university more than 26,000 documents he has collected during his lifelong interest in Italian history.
Water gun, infrared control are top student inventions
The Automatically Pressurizing Water Gun, a new twist on such popular water guns as the Super Soaker, received first prize and $10,000 in the annual College of Engineering's "Brainstorm: The Schoofs Prize for Creativity" competition.
Summer classes offered to high school teachers
New and experienced high school teachers of Advanced Placement and upper-level courses are invited to the ninth Summer Advanced Placement Institute June 25-29.
Single-parent scholarships deadline is March 1
Thursday, March 1 is the deadline for the Single-Parent Undergraduate Student Scholarships.
Knapp House is an intellectual and social haven
Drawn from all corners of the world and various academic departments, the 12 scholars who comprise the Knapp House graduate student learning community have created a community that combines the cohabitation challenges of MTV's "The Real World" with the culinary antics of the "Iron Chef" and academic inquiries much deeper than Regis' $1-million-dollar question.
Today’s student: Savvy achievers under a lot of pressure, Chávez says
Today's UW–Madison student is technologically savvy, involved in community service and a very high achiever, Dean of Students Alicia Fedelina Chávez told the Faculty Senate Feb. 5.
Traveling course to examine Freedom Rides
In a class to be offered during the three-week summer intersession, UW–Madison students will explore the historical meanings of the Civil Rights Movement on a bus tour through the south.
Campus highlights international opportunities
The university is hosting special events in February to highlight many opportunities for international study, travel, service and employment generated from the campus.
Economic outlook conference set for March 16
Financial market projections, international economic trends, and the growth of business in Wisconsin and the Midwest will be topics at an executive briefing Friday, March 16, at the Fluno Center for Executive Education.
NetLibrary arrives at university
Instead of walking to a campus library, now you can use your computer to retrieve and search the full texts of about 6,000 books and check them out.
Instructor: Do as I say – and as I do
Whether it's building her own home, teaching about science or diving out of a plane, Kathy Blomker has a passion for the power of doing.
Research park sponsors student recruitment fair
Companies at the rapidly expanding University Research Park hope to better recruit the talent available at their doorstep with a first-ever student job fair on Monday, Jan. 29, at the Memorial Union's Great Hall.
Institute to host international visiting professors
Member programs of the International Institute will host six distinguished international scholars next semester.
Law project may free inmate
The UW Law School's Innocence Project has attracted national attention for the efforts of clinical professors John Pray and Keith Findley and three students to secure the release of an imprisoned Texas murder convict.