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  • A guide for creating an Educational Innovation plan Nov. 27, 2012 While there are numerous outlets to demonstrate innovation here at UW-Madison, focusing on one of five areas may help get you started. For each area, there are Eductaional Innovation experts able to help guide you with the process.
  • UW–Madison Preferred products now available for purchase Nov. 27, 2012 Purchasing Services, with the support of an Administrative Excellence team, announced that several UW-Madison Preferred products, including common office supplies such as pens, writing pads, copy paper and remanufactured ink and toner, are now available for purchase.
  • Campus plans migration to new email and calendar system Nov. 27, 2012 A campuswide team working to employ a single email and calendar software supplier for the campus has completed critical steps toward implementing Microsoft Office 365.
  • ‘Bringing the Universe to Wisconsin’ begins at UW–River Falls Nov. 26, 2012 It took seven years and the efforts of an international collaboration of scientists to turn the South Pole ice into the world's largest, most innovative telescope: the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
  • Photo: Pedestrians at rush hour Recent Sightings: Rush hour Nov. 26, 2012 Pedestrians walk across an intersection along University Avenue against a backdrop of car lights and rush-hour traffic traveling through the heart of the campus at nightfall.
  • Author to give talk on history of disability in the U.S. Nov. 21, 2012 Kim E. Nielsen, professor of disability studies and history at the University of Toledo, will give a public lecture from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St.
  • UWPD seeks info on Memorial Library robbery Nov. 21, 2012 The University of Wisconsin Police Department is seeking information about Nov. 20 robbery in Memorial Library.
  • Baseball commissioner to address ethical leadership Nov. 20, 2012 Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig will give the keynote address as a part of Ethics Week, sponsored by the Howard Carver Ethics and Professionalism Program at the Wisconsin School of Business.
  • Traffic lane on Lake Street closed for four weeks Nov. 20, 2012 The southbound lane in the 200 block of North Lake Street will be closed through Friday, Dec. 14, so that the old Gordon Commons can be demolished.
  • Talk examines American Indian agriculture and food systems Nov. 20, 2012 American Indian tribes have plenty of challenges when it comes to food and food systems, says Dan Cornelius, ranging from environmental threats to traditional crops to the difficulties of getting fresh food to remote tribal communities.
  • Analytical tool is focus of spinoff firm Nov. 20, 2012 A new company making a high-speed, accurate and user-friendly instrument that reveals the molecular structure of proteins, drugs, and other important materials is the latest spinoff from the University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry department.
  • Bioenergy center supports new science education framework Nov. 20, 2012 Teachers aiming to meet new federal standards for science education have a new resource at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC).
  • Arboretum Local Products Fair encourages shopping ‘green’ and local Nov. 19, 2012 Holiday shopping will take on a local flavor at the fourth annual "Close to Home: Arboretum Local Products Fair" Sunday, Nov. 25 at the UW Arboretum.
  • Acting Peace Corps director to visit UW–Madison campus Nov. 19, 2012 Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet — accompanied by her husband, Steve Radelet, chief economist of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — will be in Madison on Monday, Nov. 26, for two public appearances.
  • Union South wins sustainable building honor Nov. 19, 2012 The Wisconsin Union has announced that Union South has received a LEED Gold designation – one of the highest levels established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute.
  • National political reporter to offer post-election analysis Nov. 19, 2012 Now that voters have written an ending to the grueling presidential campaign, the nation's political reporters will spend the next few weeks digesting the results and the lessons learned from the 2012 election.
  • Study sees reduced C-section births in Amish Community Nov. 16, 2012 A birthing center set up specifically for women in a Wisconsin Amish community may point the way to reducing the high rate of cesarean-section births in the United States, according to a new study.
  • Visiting authors argue for the single life Nov. 15, 2012 She writes candidly about being a single woman at age 39. He argues that "the second-class citizen" status of singles is unfair. Together, Kate Bolick and Michael Cobb are leading voices in redefining the social landscape. They are also old friends. On Thursday, Nov. 29 the two will appear as featured speakers in a Humanities Without Boundaries talk titled "Uncoupled: Kate Bolick and Michael Cobb Talk About Singles" at 7:30 p.m at the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, 800 University Ave., room L160.
  • Meditation expertise changes experience of pain Nov. 15, 2012 Meditation can change the way a person experiences pain, according to a new study by UW-Madison neuroscientists.
  • Worldwide Universities Network hosts ‘Ideas and Universities’ virtual seminar series Nov. 15, 2012 The Ideas and Universities Project of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is sponsoring a virtual seminar series that brings together leading higher education scholars from around the world to consider the roles of universities in the global knowledge economy and the evolving identity of university teacher-researchers and their changing roles in institutions of higher learning.