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• Obama nominates UW-Madison professor to National Board for Education Sciences March 4, 2010 President Barack Obama has announced that he will nominate Adam Gamoran as a member of the National Board for Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
• Major changes shape Morgridge Center present, future Feb. 24, 2010 Since it was founded in 1996, the Morgridge Center for Public Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has gained wide campus and community recognition for its leadership and advocacy role in promoting civic engagement, volunteerism and service learning.
• Committee seeks nominations for new human resources director Feb. 17, 2010 A faculty, staff and student committee searching for a new director of human resources is seeking applications and nominations for the position.
• Interim registrar named Jan. 11, 2010 Dan Edlebeck has been named interim university registrar, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management Joanne Berg recently announced.
• Snow Action Day declared, UW inclement weather guidelines for employees detailed Dec. 8, 2009 With a winter storm forecast to bear down on Madison on Tuesday into Wednesday, here is some important information regarding snow removal and employee guidelines during inclement weather.
• Seasonal flu shots available for faculty, staff through Dec. 11 Dec. 7, 2009 Injectable seasonal flu shots will be offered to faculty and staff at a number of campus locations next week, Dec. 7-11.
• UW-Madison furlough day set for Nov. 27 Nov. 24, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison will close on Thursday, Nov. 26, for the Thanksgiving holiday and on Friday, Nov. 27, as a mandated furlough day for most of its employees.
• After Supreme Court clerkship, Klingele back teaching at UW Law School Nov. 13, 2009 One of the most memorable moments of Cecelia Klingele's yearlong U.S. Supreme Court clerkship wasn't crafting an opinion on a particular case or listening to an oral argument.
• First employee seasonal flu clinics begin Nov. 4, 2009 UW-Madison is offering a series of seasonal influenza vaccine clinics for faculty and staff. In a change from previous years, only the nasal spray version of the vaccine is available at a series of November clinics, with delivery of the injectable version now expected in early December.
• UW-Madison researchers ranked among world's top 20 universities Oct. 5, 2009 A recent assessment of the research impact of scientists at more than 4,000 universities around the world ranked those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison No. 20.
• Domestic-partner health-insurance celebration planned Sept. 16, 2009 The UW-Madison community is invited to a celebration and question-and-answer session about domestic-partner health-insurance benefits.
• Symposium addresses ‘flexibility stigma’ Sept. 9, 2009 “The Flexibility Stigma: How to Make Flexibility Policies Truly Usable” will be the topic of the 2009 Denice D. Denton Memorial Symposium on Friday, Oct. 2, at 1610 Engineering Hall.
• UW-Madison welcomes new faculty Sept. 9, 2009 Alongside the slew of incoming freshmen, another group of new Badgers is making a debut at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall.
• UW-Madison prepares for new semester with flu in mind Aug. 27, 2009 As University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty and staff prepare for next week's start of the 2009-10 academic year, administrators and campus health officials are finalizing plans to manage an expected re-emergence of the H1N1 influenza virus, or "swine flu."
• UW-Madison announces biological safety officer July 30, 2009 Jim Turk has been named biological safety officer in the Environment, Health and Safety Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• SOAR star retires after 51 years at UW-Madison July 30, 2009 Student finances aren't supposed to be funny. Wally Douma decided to change that.
• Work on new content-management system progresses July 15, 2009 In June 2008, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) and a group of early adopters began work with the RedDot content-management system, now known as the WiscWeb Content Management Service (WWCMS).
• Human resources director retires July 8, 2009 After a 44-year career as a UW-Madison human resources administrator, Carla Raatz retired from her position as director of the Office of Human Resources (OHR) on July 5.
• New Web site showcases roles, activities of UW-Madison academic staff July 2, 2009 On July 1, the University of Wisconsin-Madison unveiled a Web portal that highlights the diversity of the nearly 7,000 professionals who make significant contributions in research, teaching and service at UW-Madison.
• Domestic partner health insurance included in state budget June 29, 2009 Gov. Jim Doyle today (June 29) signed into law a state budget authorizing the offering of health insurance benefits to same- and opposite-sex domestic partnerships.