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• Partners in Giving update from the chancellor and provost Nov. 23, 2011 As we break to celebrate Thanksgiving — we cannot say "thank you" enough, both to those who have given and to all of you who might consider still doing so. Your support brings hope to so many.
• Students: Help fight hunger through donations and social media at #WIFightHunger Nov. 23, 2011 In an effort to add social media energy to the fight against hunger, VIP and #UWSocial are giving away seats in a private box at the Kohl Center for the Dec. 31 Badgers men’s basketball game versus Iowa in exchange for food donations and social media exposure.
• Arboretum Local Products Expo encourages shopping green and local Nov. 22, 2011 Holiday shopping takes on a local, sustainable twist at the Close to Home: Arboretum Local Products Expo Sunday at the UW Arboretum.
• Winter water skiing to benefit American Family Children's Hospital Nov. 21, 2011 For the third consecutive year, the Mad-City Ski Team will brave the ice cold waters of Lake Monona to benefit American Family Children’s Hospital.
• Big Learning Event seeks your big ideas for speakers Nov. 17, 2011 Some 350 faculty, staff, students and community members came together earlier this year for the first Big Learning Event. The intention of the event was to encourage cross-disciplinary listening and conversations to develop game-changing ideas for the future.
• Christmas Lecture, a Madison holiday tradition, returns Nov. 17, 2011 Chemistry Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri will celebrate a 42-year tradition with his holiday demonstration, “Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri.”
• Law School launches Wisconsin Business Law Initiative Nov. 15, 2011 The University of Wisconsin Law School is launching the Wisconsin Business Law Initiative to better connect faculty and students with business lawyers in Wisconsin and beyond.
• Schoenfield composition highlights second Pro Arte Quartet concert Nov. 15, 2011 Google the word “freilach” and you will find that it means “happy” or “joyful,” especially in relationship to music. American composer Paul Schoenfield says the Yiddish word also describes his recently composed “Three Rhapsodies for Piano Quintet,” commissioned by the UW Pro Arte Quartet as part of its 100-year anniversary celebration currently underway.
• Staffers share Thanksgiving with international visitors Nov. 15, 2011 Most students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison spend the last Thursday in November with family or friends: bundling up to brave colder weather; gathering around various combinations of turkey, vegetables and pie.
• City clerk to run mock UW election Nov. 15 Nov. 14, 2011 The Madison City Clerk's Office and Associated Students of Madison will simulate an election on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to register student voters and determine how the recent changes in state elections law will affect voting on campus.
• UW exposition examines high-tech mapping Nov. 14, 2011 The UW-Madison campus will bring together experts from around Wisconsin on Wednesday, Nov. 16 to show off the latest in technologies and projects that utilize high-tech mapping tools called geographic information systems (GIS).
• International programming competition at Epic Nov. 11, 2011 Teams from at least three Wisconsin universities - the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Milwaukee School of Engineering - will test their computer programming skills and mental endurance Saturday, Nov. 12 at Epic Systems in Verona in the regional round of the "Battle of the Brains," the IBM-sponsored ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
• November food drive unites campus against hunger Nov. 10, 2011 For several years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Office of Visitor & Information Programs (VIP) has coordinated the NBC15 "Share Your Holidays" food drive for families in need.
• School of Education marks American Education Week Nov. 14-18 Nov. 10, 2011 The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education will honor some of its very best scholars during an American Education Week 2011 program primarily dedicated to its retiring faculty, distinguished alumni and partner teachers during the week of Nov. 14-18.
• Forum focuses on storing spent nuclear fuel Nov. 9, 2011 Not all of the fallout from last March's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was radioactive. There was also considerable policy fallout, as the crisis caused many to rethink the safety of nuclear power.
• Center turns to innovative methods with first-year students Nov. 8, 2011 Inside UW–Madison talks with Center for the First-Year Experience Director Wren Singer ahead of the center's annual conference about how the university has shifted to a more comprehensive approach to serving the needs of first-year students.
• Parents’ Weekend celebrates UW–Madison families Nov. 3, 2011 More than 740 families will learn about student life this weekend during their visits to the University of Wisconsin–Madison for Parents’ Weekend, an annual tradition that brings students and their families together to experience the university and the city of Madison.
• New documentary highlights Mildred Fish-Harnack Nov. 3, 2011 A new one-hour documentary on Mildred Fish-Harnack—Milwaukee native, University of Wisconsin alumna, and the only American woman executed on direct orders from Adolf Hitler—is scheduled to premiere Monday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. on Wisconsin Public Television (WPT).
• Panel examines student assessment of nonprofit effectiveness Nov. 2, 2011 Students in Lori Bakken's interdisciplinary studies graduate course learned organizational evaluation skills while providing a solid answer to a growing conundrum: How can a nonprofit agency demonstrate its programs' effectiveness?
• Climate change and the oxymoron of sustainable growth Nov. 2, 2011 Climate change, often viewed as a burden for future generations, is, in fact, a problem at hand, and a significant one, contends Rudy M. Baum, editor-in-chief of Chemical & Engineering News.