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• Dean of students, police urge vigilance after downtown robberies Oct. 1, 2009 In the wake of several robberies in the Madison community, the University of Wisconsin Police Department (UWPD), the Offices of the Dean of Students and Madison Police Department (MPD) are again reminding students to watch out for one another, especially at night.
• Music and spoken-word festival to feature international artists Oct. 1, 2009 The fifth annual Passing the Mic Series, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI), will bring internationally renowned musical and spoken-word artists from Central America and across the United States to the Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium from Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 8-10.
• First Wave wins state arts award Oct. 1, 2009 A top Wisconsin arts honor - the 2009 Governor's Award in Support of the Arts - has been given to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI), which oversees the First Wave Learning Community.
• Interdisciplinary conference asks 'What is human?' Sept. 30, 2009 A conference addressing the issue "What is Human?" will be held on campus this week.
• Recent sightings: Blustery Monday Sept. 28, 2009
• New Wisconsin Center of Excellence in Genomics Science established Sept. 28, 2009 The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health today (Sept. 28) announced an $8 million, three-year grant to establish a Wisconsin Center of Excellence in Genomics Science.
• Entrepreneurship nurtured with seed grants at UW-Madison Sept. 28, 2009 Entrepreneurship is thriving across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and four student-run businesses captured that spirit and have been awarded seed grants to nurture their startups.
• UW Foundation President Andrew A. "Sandy" Wilcox to retire Sept. 25, 2009 After 21 years as president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation, Andrew A. "Sandy" Wilcox has announced plans to retire at the end of 2010.
• Football Saturday traffic advisory Sept. 25, 2009
• ASM hosting Madison Initiative forum Sept. 25, 2009
• Slide show: Go Big Read lecture Sept. 25, 2009
• WARF, GLBRC join forces on homegrown clean technologies Sept. 25, 2009 The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) have joined forces to promote "clean" technologies invented at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Domestic partner health insurance information now available Sept. 25, 2009 Detailed enrollment information for domestic partner health insurance is now available to UW–Madison faculty and staff.
• Recent sightings: Bascom Hill repeats Sept. 24, 2009
• Curiosities: Why is it that often foods with the least nutritional content taste the best to people? Sept. 24, 2009
• Ag industry views on food, farming and Michael Pollan to be discussed Sept. 23, 2009 Viewpoints from the Wisconsin Farm Bureau, Organic Valley Co-op and the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection board regarding food, farming and the work of author Michael Pollan will be presented in a panel discussion on Thursday, Oct. 1.
• UW-Madison entrepreneurship programs ranked 11th Sept. 23, 2009 Entrepreneurship programs at the Wisconsin School of Business rank among the best in the nation, according to a recently published survey conducted by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine.
• Author visits campus as part of Go Big Read Sept. 23, 2009 Go Big Read is the university’s new common-reading program, intended to engage all readers — students, faculty, staff and the community — in a shared academically focused experience. Chancellor Biddy Martin selected Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food: An Easter’s Manifesto,” which examines modern American food culture, nutrition and health.
• "In Defense of Food" author visits UW-Madison Sept. 22, 2009 Author Michael Pollan will address the campus and community in a pair of events at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week, during a visit that's part of the Go Big Read common reading program.
• Nobel Prize-winning chemist to give Bernstein Lectures Sept. 22, 2009 Renowned chemist Ahmed Zewail will give two lectures as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Richard B. Bernstein Lectures in Chemistry on Monday, Sept. 28, and Tuesday, Sept. 29.