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• Pedal Pushing: Bike To Work Oct. 6-10 Oct. 1, 1997 Stefan Downing and Ed Sullivan want you to join them in riding your bike to work. As motivation, they have arranged some creative incentives for those who pedalto work or classes during the first full week of October.
• New Scout Publications Uncover Internet Ground Sept. 26, 1997 The Internet Scout Project of UW-Madison's computer sciences department has announced the start of three new free electronic publications designed for the higher-education community.
• Arboreal Self-Defense Sept. 24, 1997 Deploying high concentrations of an aspirin-like compound as a chemical defense, some aspen trees are capable of spoiling the voracious appetites of gypsy moth caterpillars, one of the world's most feared forest insect pests.
• San Jose Business Editor Returns Home Sept. 24, 1997 Peter Hillan, executive business editor of the San Jose Mercury News and former UW-Madison student and Wisconsin State Journal editor, will serve as this semester's business writer in residence at UW-Madison Sept. 29-Oct. 3.
• Seats Remain for Stones Concert Sept. 24, 1997
• Sept. 24, 1997 More than two years after Chancellor David Ward outlined a vision that challenged the university community to embrace change and innovation, the enthusiasm for doing things differently continues to grow.
• Packed Career Fair a Boon for Graduating Engineers Sept. 23, 1997 With engineers and computer scientists in high demand, Career Connection 97 attracted 150 companies to come to campus this year.
• The End of the World As They Know It Sept. 19, 1997 Participants in an international symposium, 'Waiting in Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium,' will investigate what lessons we might draw from the past and their implications for the coming age Sept. 21-24.
• Elders Headlines Distinguished Lecture Series Sept. 18, 1997 M. Joycelyn Elders, pediatric endocrinologist and former U.S. surgeon general, will address 'Health Care in the 21st Century' Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m., in the Wisconsin Union Theater as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.
• UW Press Marks 60-Year Imprint on Research Publishing Sept. 17, 1997 The University of Wisconsin Press celebrates 60 years of publishing regional, general interest and scholarly books.
• Professor's Video To Debut at Historical Society Sept. 16, 1997
• 'Feeling Good' Author To Speak on Campus Sept. 15, 1997 Best-selling author and mental health scholar David D. Burns will give a free lecture at the Memorial Union Tuesday, Sept. 16 on 'feeling good about yourself.'
• Chadbourne seeks to 'change the culture' of campus life Sept. 12, 1997 This semester marks the beginning of an ambitious experiment in residence hall life, the Chadbourne Residential College. The idea upon which it is built: that living is learning, and the residence hall can be a form of classroom.
• Pioneers of Physics To Meet in Madison Next Week Sept. 12, 1997 DESCRIPTION
• Sharks Without Bites: Loan Advisers Find Cooperative Approach Keeps Default Rate Low Sept. 11, 1997 Lueck and his team of eight student-loan advisors work with former students and graduates who have trouble paying back the student loans they took out from UW-Madison.
• UW Community to Particpate in 'Day of Caring' Sept. 11, 1997 More than 300 UW-Madison students, faculty, staff and administrators have volunteered their services during a 'Day of Caring' Sept. 13.
• Plants in Space: Wisconsin Seeds First To Sprout From Stock Grown on Mir Sept. 10, 1997 The seeds of a tiny, rapidly growing mustard plant, born in space aboard the troubled space station Mir, have sprouted in space, completing a critical first step toward the goal of raising multiple generations of plants in space.
• Wisconsin's Economy Outshines Nation's, Study Finds Sept. 9, 1997 Real personal income growth in Wisconsin in the 1990s surpassed the rate of growth in the nation by 24 percent, according to a study by Jon Udell, the Irwin Maier Professor of Business at the UW-Madison School of Business.
• Lecture Series Considers How To 'Go Beyond Violence' Sept. 8, 1997
• E. Coli Genome Reported: Milestone of Modern Biology Emerges From Laboratory of Genetics Sept. 5, 1997 A team of scientists headed by Frederick Blattner of the E. coli Genome Project in the Laboratory of Genetics at UW-Madison has determined the complete genome sequence of the E. coli bacterium, it was reported in the Sept. 5 issue of the journal Science.