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• Recent sightings: Book Club Oct. 21, 2011
• Wisconsin Book Festival author is world traveler, UW–Madison dad Oct. 19, 2011 Acclaimed author André Aciman, who will present a Wisconsin Book Festival talk on Thursday, is eagerly awaiting his visit to UW–Madison, where he has strong family ties.
• Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang to deliver Zolotow Lecture Oct. 5 Oct. 4, 2011
• Go Big Read launches third year of common-reading program Sept. 13, 2011 "Enrique's Journey" is the selection for this year's Go Big Read, and discussions and events related to the book will be held all year.
• ‘Enrique’s Journey’ chosen for Go Big Read program June 8, 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has selected "Enrique's Journey" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario as the book for the third year of Go Big Read, the university's common reading program.
• Book series explores chemistry’s panache April 14, 2011 When chemistry’s preeminent impresario Bassam Shakhashiri mounts the dais, you know the show is about to begin.
• Recent sightings: Go Big Read Oct. 26, 2010
• Q&A: Professor examines those ‘outside the color lines’ in new book Oct. 20, 2010 In her new book, “Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South,” Bow examines what segregation demanded of people who did not fall into the category of black or white — including Asians, American Indians and people of mixed race.
• Go Big Read gets a fast start on campus; author to visit on Oct. 25 Oct. 19, 2010 Go Big Read, UW-Madison's common reading program, is off to a vigorous start. Some 5,000 copies of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," by Rebecca Skloot, were given away in September at the Chancellor's Convocation for New Students.
• Go Big Read kicks off another year with events Sept. 13, 2010 The campus community has many opportunities to participate in the second year of the Go Big Read common-reading program, which this year will feature “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot.
• Putting politics aside: Using evidence to develop policy May 19, 2010 The authors of a new book about informing policymaking with research have devoted their careers to bridging the gap between the research and public policy communities.
• The plight of working-poor families: Low-wage labor and weak safety net April 27, 2010 In their new book from the University of Chicago Press titled "Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-Wage Labor Market," co-authors Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer present their analysis of the political and structural forces that shaped the lives of working-poor families by examining the experiences of 33 women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wis.
• ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ chosen for Go Big Read program April 6, 2010 UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has selected "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot as the book for the second year of Go Big Read, the university's common reading program.
• Celebrate Read an E-Book Week with a free e-book from UW Press March 10, 2010 The University of Wisconsin Press is urging readers to celebrate Read an E-Book Week and is offering hundreds of titles -- and a free e-book.
• History professor writes definitive Woodrow Wilson biography Nov. 5, 2009 After a meteoric rise to the nation’s highest office, a new president working to make major structural changes to government and the economy enjoys majorities in Congress, but faces an unwillingness from opponents to cooperate with him.
• Economist takes on global debt crisis in classroom, book, blog Oct. 29, 2009 As the financial markets melted down last fall, University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Menzie Chinn says he was surprised not only by the depth of the economic downturn that set in, but also by the certainty of Monday-morning quarterbacking from observers of the government's response to the crisis.
• Friends hold fall book sale Oct. 7, 2009 The fall book sale, organized by the Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries, takes place today (Oct. 7) through Saturday, Oct. 10. The sale is open to the public and is held in 116 Memorial Library.
• Digital revolution is happening outside the classroom Oct. 6, 2009 The way we learn is changing, but schools are having trouble keeping up. While technology dominates daily life and work, it still plays a limited role in public schools filled with students who are increasingly learning outside the classroom with help from cell phones, computers and video games, says Rich Halverson, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis and co-author of the new book “Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology.”
• Author to visit campus for common-reading program Aug. 27, 2009 Michael Pollan, whose book "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" is the focus of the Go Big Read common-reading project, will give a free public talk on Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• UW-Madison launches Go Big Read book program Aug. 27, 2009 When thousands of people read the same book, it's bound to get people talking. And when that book's subject matter has passionate defenders and critics, it's sure to get readers together to share their thoughts, reactions and opinions.