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• UW Police invite kids to be Badger Watch Buddies July 31, 2012 The UW Police Department’s award-winning Badger Watch crime prevention program, which will celebrate its tenth anniversary this coming academic year, has added a new program for children ages 5-12 called Badger Watch Buddies.
• UW-Madison Day at Wisconsin State Fair features innovation, fun July 26, 2012 Agricultural displays, special appearances and more than 20 "exploration stations" will bring the University of Wisconsin-Madison eastward as the Wisconsin State Fair celebrates UW-Madison Day on Wednesday, Aug. 8.
• UW police host Dog Days of Summer picnic July 20, 2012 The first annual Dog Days of Summer picnic, an official fundraising event dedicated to supporting the UW Police Department's K9 unit, will be held on Saturday, July 28.
• Memorial Library’s Special Collections department showcases new exhibit and much more July 19, 2012 A new exhibit, "Expanding the Home Circle: An Exhibit of Artists' Books Paired with Illustrated Books 
from the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers," has been installed in Memorial Library's Special Collections department. The exhibit, on display until Sept. 14, was created and curated by UW-Madison art department alumna Rachel Melis.
• A Hubble Space Telescope original returns to Wisconsin July 17, 2012 After a journey of some 535 million space miles, give or take, and years languishing in a cavernous government warehouse, one of the original scientific instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope has splashed down in Wisconsin.
• Recent Sightings: Secretary Chu visits UW July 12, 2012
• Summer (music) in the city July 10, 2012 Summer always brings flocks of visitors to campus. Each year, many participatory musical events have added a particularly tuneful note to all that UW-Madison has to offer, showcasing connections between the university and the wider world.
• 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.