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• Campus-youth partnership to share artistic skills in recording studio Dec. 14, 2012 A partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Madison-area youth will help young people explore and develop their creative talents in a cutting-edge sound recording studio.
• Retired administrator joins words and art in new exhibits Dec. 13, 2012 After retiring in 1994 as associate dean in the College of Letters & Science, Blair Mathews has maintained his connection with the university through a variety of channels. Now, as a poet, Mathews brings a different kind of work back to campus.
• Explore SoundWaves at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Dec. 11, 2012 What do genetics, plant infections, West Nile virus, the human brain and Bach have in common?
• Film examines fate of prisoners after 1920 war Dec. 3, 2012 The Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee and the UW Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia present "What Can Dead Prisoners Do?" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at The Marquee in Union South.
• Wisconsin Singers stage 45th anniversary show Nov. 15, 2012 The Wisconsin Singers’ 45th anniversary show will premier on the Overture Capitol Theater stage on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.
• UW experts weigh in on Lincoln as movie opens in theaters Nov. 13, 2012 President Abraham Lincoln is more monument than man to many Americans, with his image printed on our currency and seated atop Bascom Hill, among other places. On Friday, director Steven Spielberg’s movie “Lincoln,” with Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, opens in theaters.
• Hip-hop arts festival Passing the Mic brings words to life Nov. 5, 2012 The Passing the Mic: 8th Annual Intergenerational Hip-Hop Arts Festival will bring words to life as a program within the Wisconsin Book Festival.
• Father of the birth-control pill talks science, art and the life of the intellectual Oct. 31, 2012 As he received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association in Madison last week, Carl Djerassi took time to talk about his many passions.
• FACETS contemporary ballet concert set Nov. 15-17 Oct. 19, 2012 Marlene Skog, an assistant professor of dance, will present the first concert of contemporary ballet at the Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, Nov. 15-17 at 8 p.m.
• UW prof’s award-winning ‘Slow Violence’ gives voice to global struggle Oct. 18, 2012 The cover of Rob Nixon's new book features black smoke, drifting across a dreary cityscape.
• 'Class-grass' concerts celebrate the culture of agriculture Oct. 8, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is cosponsoring a pair of concerts celebrating the culture of agriculture.
• Getting Real III explores hip-hop pedagogy, performance and culture Sept. 20, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) has partnered with several New York-based educational institutions to offer a dual-location hip-hop education lecture series via videoconferencing through Dec. 10.
• UW-Madison Dance brings science to the stage with “PULSE”
 Sept. 14, 2012 During this Year of Innovation at UW-Madison, the Dance Department brings science to the stage with "PULSE: Intersections of Dance and Science," a Wisconsin Science Festival event, Friday, Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. in the Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space of Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.
• UW-Madison celebrates imagination, discovery in the Year of Innovation Sept. 13, 2012 From dairy science to dance to vitamin D to stem cells, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has pushed the boundaries of what is known and the limits of what is possible for more than 160 years.
• Go Big Read marries art and science with “Radioactive” Sept. 11, 2012 Lauren Redniss was first drawn to Marie and Pierre Curie because of their beautiful love story. But the Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator found much more as she researched, wrote and illustrated her book “Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout,” this year’s selection for Go Big Read, UW–Madison's common reading program.
• Choreographer, performer Sally Gross presents free programs Sept. 6, 2012 Legendary choreographer and performer Sally Gross will offer a half-dozen free public events as part of her visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the fall 2012 Artist in Residence.
• UW-Madison announces First Wave/MC Lyte Scholarship presented by Hip Hop Sisters Network Sept. 6, 2012 A full-tuition First Wave scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was named today for the legendary pioneer for women in hip-hop, MC Lyte.
• Play to examine woman's life in the male world of MIT math Sept. 5, 2012 Trust a good play to raise issues and spark debate.
• Visual art: Exhibit explores the science behind the beauty Aug. 27, 2012 "About Seeing," an innovative exhibit focusing on the interaction between vision science and visual art, opens Aug. 31 at the James Watrous Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison.
• Masterworks from Italy coming to the Chazen Aug. 24 Aug. 7, 2012 Forty-five works by Renaissance old masters will be on view in the Midwest for the first time in the exhibition Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery.