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  • 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.
  • March 8, 2012
  • 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.
  • Film festival finds environmental stories in unexpected places March 7, 2012 From Cold War bunkers in Albania to the night skies over Manhattan, Tales from Planet Earth will offer a broad - and often surprising - exploration of the environment.
  • Office of Sustainability launches at UW-Madison March 7, 2012 The UW-Madison Office of Sustainability, which grew out of the campuswide Sustainability Initiative, will officially launch on Friday, March 9, with an event at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
  • Students plan UW-Madison’s first Fashion Week March 6, 2012 Last year, stylish students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made a name for themselves by creating MODA, an online fashion magazine [http://modamadison.com]. Now, these young entrepreneurs plan to present the first annual UW-Madison Fashion Week.
  • World Food Programme official visits UW-Madison March 6, 2012 Bettina Luescher, United Nations World Food Programme chief spokesperson for North America and UW-Madison alumna, will visit the university on Thursday, March 8, and Friday, March 9.
  • Communicating danger across 10,000 years March 1, 2012 Giant symbols carved into canyon walls might tell the story of a long-ago hunt, a creation myth, or a genocide - but because the cultures who created rock art have vanished, there is no way of discerning their exact meaning.
  • UW Pro Arte Quartet concert highlights Bolcom, Milhaud, Mozart March 1, 2012 American composer William Bolcom believes an artist's role is to mirror society.
  • Arboretum solstice walk Madison Reads Leopold set for Saturday at UW Arboretum Feb. 28, 2012 The UW-Madison Arboretum — where Aldo Leopold helped establish a pioneering experiment in ecological restoration — will host Madison Reads Leopold, a public reading from Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” on Saturday, March 3, in celebration of Aldo Leopold Weekend.
  • Women help high school girls find their perfect prom dress Feb. 28, 2012 The Panhellenic Association will co-host the annual "All Dressed Up" event with the Junior League of Madison on Saturday March 10 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Madison Area Technical College.
  • See restored Curry murals at Wednesday Night @ the Lab Feb. 28, 2012 A remarkable University of Wisconsin-Madison research triumph and artful renderings depicting the importance of biochemistry are the subject of a rare occurrence of the popular Wednesday Night @ the Lab series.
  • UW-Madison hosts 2012 Lorraine Hansberry Symposium Feb. 27, 2012 As part of the 2012 Lorraine Hansberry Project, honoring the life and pioneering work of a UW-Madison alumna who made lasting contributions to American arts and culture, a free symposium will take place on Saturday, March 3, in Vilas Hall’s Mitchell Theatre. The symposium, “Conversations on African-American Youth and August Wilson’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’” is presented in conjunction with the Hansberry Project’s production of Wilson’s play.
  • Bringing the Yiddish past to life: A tour through the Mayrent Collection Feb. 24, 2012 The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries will celebrate the Mayrent Collection at a special event at the University Club, 803 State St., on Thursday, March 1 at 4:30 p.m.
  • HR Design Project forums, Web chat seek feedback from campus community Feb. 23, 2012 The Human Resources Design Project will be hosting two forums during the week of Feb. 27 to offer a status report and gather input from employees regarding the campus-wide effort to build a new, more effective University of Wisconsin-Madison personnel system.
  • WisCEL: New learning center to open Feb. 23, 2012 At two UW-Madison libraries, newly remodeled instructional spaces ripe with technological upgrades are helping turn the 1,000-year-old, lecture-based, "one-size-fits-all" instructional model upside down.
  • Hunger Meal to raise awareness of social inequality and poverty Feb. 23, 2012 At the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Hunger Meal, sponsored by students from the La Follette School of Public Affairs, whether you get a gourmet dinner, rice and beans, or something in between will be determined the same way many receive their lot in life: by chance.
  • Campus visits set for business services post Feb. 21, 2012 Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community will have opportunities in the next two weeks to meet and talk with finalists for the position of assistant vice chancellor for business services.