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• Institute provides engagement tools for working with youth July 6, 2012 If you are an educator or community leader looking seeking ways to capture, keep and encourage your students' focus on learning through spoken word, art, music and movement, there is still time to register for "Hip-Hop in the Heartland," this year's Educator and Community Leader Training Institute.
• Greenfield Summer Institute features Jewish memory and nostalgia July 2, 2012
• Pyle Center to welcome pediatrics patients for rooftop for fireworks show June 27, 2012
• Centennial celebration of the Camp Randall Arch is June 30 June 27, 2012 The Camp Randall Memorial Arch, located where West Dayton Street meets Randall Avenue, was dedicated in 1912 in remembrance of the 70,000 troops who trained at Camp Randall during the Civil War. On Saturday, June 30, a rededication ceremony will be held underneath the arch in celebration of its centennial. From 10:30 to 11 a.m., the 1st Brigade Band will perform, followed by the ceremony at 11 a.m.
• Persons with cognitive challenges share stories and hope June 26, 2012 Living with cognitive changes will be the theme Thursday, June 28, at forMemory’s “Pathways to Hope: Right Foot, Left Foot, Breathe” event. A series of workshops and speakers will be featured from 12:30 to 9 p.m. at Town Center, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Symposium marks 101 years of veterinary sciences at UW-Madison June 20, 2012 The UW School of Veterinary Medicine will host a Scientific Symposium to Celebrate 101 Years of Veterinary Medical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Saturday, June 23.
• Tracking Davidson’s Goliaths: Marine archaeologists to survey wrecks of Australasia, Adriatic in Whitefish Bay June 20, 2012 At a time when everyone else had switched to iron and steel, James Davidson steadfastly clung to wood, building some of the largest wooden schooners ever to sail the Great Lakes, and becoming a legendary shipbuilding titan in the process.
• Three UW-Madison student teams to compete in national food competitions June 20, 2012 When 18 UW-Madison food science students head to Las Vegas later this month, they'll be packing some delicious luggage: samples of a fruit smoothie, a PB&J popsicle and a cranberry-filled pretzel snack they painstakingly developed during the past academic year.
• Administrative Excellence campus forum set for June 20 June 19, 2012 Seven teams will be presenting their work at the Administrative Excellence campus forum on Wednesday, June 20 from 10 a.m. to noon at Varsity Hall in Union South.
• Webinars focus on new online master of engineering in sustainable systems engineering June 14, 2012 The University of Wisconsin–Madison will hold a series of informational webinars on the new online master of engineering in sustainable systems engineering (SSE).
• Learn about science in Spanish at Explorando las Ciencias June 13, 2012 Explorando las Ciencias, a popular Spanish-language science outreach event, will take place from 2 to 10 p.m. on Friday, June 22, at Warner Park in the Community Recreation Center and shelter at Warner Park, 1625 Northport Drive, and with the help of “Amigos en Azul,” a Madison police organization aimed at building partnerships in the city’s Hispanic community.
• C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House” tour comes to campus June 11, 2012
• All-terrain vehicle competition begins Friday, June 8 June 4, 2012 Most people would do anything they could to avoid driving their car through anything resembling a "mud bog." But beginning Friday, more than 1,200 students will work hard to plow as far into the mud as they possibly can.
• Conference explores cooperative businesses June 4, 2012 The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives has partnered with the city of Madison and the area's cooperative business community to host the Madison Cooperative Business Conference on June 6-7.
• Area high school students graduate from UW technology program June 1, 2012 Twenty area high school students will receive certificates of graduation on Saturday, June 2 for completing an intensive technology training and college preparatory program through UW-Madison called the Information Technology Academy (ITA).
• Transit of Venus a rare event June 1, 2012 On the evening of Tuesday, June 5, the planet Venus will cross the disk of the Sun in what astronomers call a "transit."
• Conference marking Witte retirement to explore issues in higher education May 30, 2012 A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian will highlight a conference next month marking the retirement of longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison professor John Witte.
• Morgridge Institute presents panel on H5N1 influenza research May 30, 2012 The Morgridge Institute for Research will launch its Ethics@Discovery program on Thursday, May 31, at 2 p.m. with “Campus Conversation: Biomedical Research and National Security—Learning from the H5N1 Influenza Story.”
• Conference invites treatment providers to rethink their business model May 18, 2012 NIATx, a learning collaborative based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS) are teaming up in New Orleans, June 19-22, for their fifth annual joint conference.
• Share the Moment through social media during commencement weekend May 17, 2012 Commencement is one of the most joyous times in the life of UW-Madison students and parents.