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  • Pay Raise, Tuition Issues Unanswered in Budget Feb. 27, 1997 The biggest budget question for UW-Madison this biennium is faculty and academic staff pay raises -- but Gov. Tommy Thompson's proposed 1997-99 budget does not give an immediate answer.
  • Initial Reaction To Budget Is Optimistic Feb. 27, 1997 UW-Madison officials are still sifting and winnowing through Gov. Tommy Thompson's 2,100-page budget for 1997-99, but their initial reaction is: Better than last time.
  • Borgerding Leaving UW Feb. 27, 1997 Eric Borgerding, special assistant to the chancellor for state relations, has accepted a position as director of legislative relations at Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce.
  • Three Awarded Sloan Fellowships Feb. 27, 1997 Three University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are among 100 scholars nationwide who have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships, which are intended to help promising young scientists establish laboratories and programs of research.
  • Electronic Check Deposit Works for All Feb. 26, 1997 As the one-year anniversary for electronic check deposit nears, university payroll officials are heralding its success and urging more employees and students to take advantage of the program.
  • UW System Alumni Satisfied With Their Education Feb. 26, 1997 Recent University of Wisconsin alumni are highly satisfied with the quality of their UW undergraduate education, according to results of an independent survey.
  • Mosse Receives AHA Award Feb. 25, 1997 Joining the circle of distinguished senior historians honored with an American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction is George Mosse, emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • New Dance Pieces Explore, Celebrate Individual Differences Feb. 24, 1997 The many and varied ways in which individuals differ will be examined through dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison March 3.
  • Jewish Lecture Series Seeks to Understand Present, Clarify Past Feb. 21, 1997 The 1997 Jewish Heritage Lecture Series will consider Zionism at 100: Retrospect and Prospect.
  • Smaller, Taller Micromachines Show Commercial Promise Feb. 20, 1997 A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineer follows an unusual parameter in the quest to make functional micro-machines. Rather than just smaller, he makes them taller.
  • Native American Law Students, Lawyers To Gather at UW Feb. 20, 1997 Two events at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School this week will bring together Native American law students and lawyers, judges and scholars from across the country.
  • Four Approved for Named Professorships Feb. 20, 1997 The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents at its February 1997 meeting approved the appointments of four UW-Madison faculty to named professorships.
  • Weygandt Named to FAF Board of Trustees Feb. 20, 1997 Accounting professor Jerry J. Weygandt has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation.
  • Steele Named Dean at Penn State University Feb. 19, 1997 Robert D. Steele has been named Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State University.
  • UW Chemist Receives Major Korean Science Prize Feb. 19, 1997 Hyuk Yu, Eastman Kodak Professor of Chemistry at UW-Madison and an internationally recognized authority on polymer chemistry and physics, has been named the recipient of the 1997 Ho-Am Basic Science Prize by the Samsung Foundation of Seoul, Korea.
  • Center for Jewish Studies Acquires Scholarly Collections Feb. 18, 1997 Recent gifts to the University of Wisconsin Foundation for the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have supported the acquisition of three important scholarly collections.
  • 1997 Jewish Heritage Lecture Series Feb. 18, 1997 The Center for Jewish Studies' 1997 Jewish Heritage Lecture Series will consider Zionism at 100: Retrospect and Prospect.
  • The Why Files Named 'Best of the Web' Feb. 18, 1997 The Why Files, a science-behind-the-news web site produced by the National Institute of Science Education (NISE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is listed among the top 100 sites on the World Wide Web by PC Magazine in its Feb 18 edition.
  • Scientific Consensus Plays Role in Debate Over Wild Salmon Recovery Feb. 17, 1997 Science may be pointing a way out of the gridlock over rehabilitating wild Pacific salmon in the Columbia River basin, where once-annual spawning runs of 20 million fish have greatly diminished.
  • Academic Quadrathalon Team Wins at National Beef Bowl Feb. 17, 1997 The UW-Madison Academic Quadrathlon team celebrated its 20th anniversary with a win at the National Cattleman's Beef Association National Beef Bowl competition in Kansas City, Mo. on Jan. 31.