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• Programs offer personal, professional enrichment March 27, 2012 From the first day of work to planning for retirement, a variety of enrichment programs are available to help University of Wisconsin–Madison employees.
• Veteran journalist Lovejoy wins first Anthony Shadid Ethics Award March 26, 2012 The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will honor veteran newsman Steve Lovejoy, editor of the Journal Times in Racine with the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, on Friday, April 13.
• Selig to give Taylor lecture March 26, 2012 Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. "Bud" Selig will be on campus next month, giving a lecture called, "Talking Baseball: The Challenges of Communicating in Turbulent Times."
• History group to explore environmental ethics and activism, March 28-31 March 23, 2012 The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) will explore the theme "From the Local to the Global: Ethics, Environmentalism, and Environmental History in an Interdependent World" at its 2012 conference in Madison.
• Woodwind-piano duo competition winners to perform March 25 March 23, 2012 The School of Music’s annual woodwind-piano duo competition was held last Sunday and the judges named two winning duos and a third with honorable mention.
• Badger Varsity Band and “Dukes of Hazzard” star celebrate the 1970s March 22, 2012 The Badger Band is preparing to celebrate the 1970s during the annual Varsity Band Concert, April 19-21.
• Prison reading groups liberate minds, UW grad students find March 21, 2012 Jose Vergara, a graduate student in the UW-Madison Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, remembers how the Oakhill Correctional Institution inmates in his reading and writing group reacted to a short story called "Blue Notebook #10," by Daniil Kharms.
• Fashion retailer Shopbop.com shares social media marketing tips, trends March 16, 2012 Tim Gill, traffic manager at Amazon's Shopbop.com, founded and based in Madison, will discuss how startup companies can use Facebook, Twitter and other digital networking forums to market themselves at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21, as the guest speaker at the next Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Gilson Bootstrapping event.
• UW-Madison to host national VentureLab program March 16, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Entrepreneurs' Resource Clinic has partnered with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) to bring the VentureLab program to Wisconsin.
• International Law Symposium to examine renewable energies March 15, 2012 The opportunities and challenges encountered in the development of renewable energies will be discussed at the Wisconsin International Law Journal 2012 Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Friday, March 23, at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
• Meet the UW Police K9 teams this Sunday at Mounds March 15, 2012 The UW Police K9 teams will be at the Mounds Pet Food stores on Sunday afternoon, March 18, to meet and greet the public.
• Nobel laureate, White House advisor to speak about science education March 14, 2012 Carl Wieman, associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and a Nobel laureate in physics, will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, March 20 to talk about teaching and learning in science and engineering.
• New survey seeks employee input on HR Design March 14, 2012 Campus feedback is being sought in the HR Design project, as work teams look to firm up recommendations for revamping the university’s human resources structure.
• Conference examines future of public higher education March 14, 2012 Public higher education has come under increasing scrutiny in the past year. Facing the paradox of being expected to produce an ever-more educated workforce for the 21st century with plummeting government support, public universities are struggling to adapt with the times.
• HR Design project seizes an opportunity March 9, 2012 University of Wisconsin–Madison Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell said this week that the chance to reshape the university’s HR Design system doesn’t come along frequently.
• Dancer and choreographer will present artist talk and dance workshop March 9, 2012 Dancer and choreographer Sally Gross will give an artist talk and lead a dance workshop in advance of her fall 2012 Arts Residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• 2012 Showcase: Leading the way with innovation and excellence March 8, 2012 Innovative ideas that solve problems and pave the way for success on campus will take center stage at this year's Showcase event on Tuesday, March 27.
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• OMAI presents Line Breaks Festival at the Overture Center March 8, 2012 A major local hip-hop event, the annual Line Breaks Festival, will bring new aesthetics in contemporary performance to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and community from Friday, March 16 through Saturday, March 24.
• UW-Madison graduate students get access to information resource on non-academic jobs March 8, 2012 Cutbacks at colleges and universities have made a tight job market in the social sciences and humanities even tighter, and yet many graduates with advanced degrees eventually find challenging, rewarding work that uses the skills they honed while getting a Ph.D.