Stories indexed under: Faculty and staff

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  • Menghini selected as chancellor's chief of staff Feb. 23, 2009 Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin has chosen Becci Menghini, a proven relationship builder with a strong record in alumni association management, as her new chief of staff.
  • The Wisconsin Experience: Delta Program makes big impact on UW teaching culture Feb. 3, 2009 Teachers teach, students learn and researchers study. But the Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning turns teachers into students, students into teachers and both into researchers.
  • UW-Madison names Transportation Services director Jan. 14, 2009 Patrick Kass, director of parking and transportation services at the University of Arizona, has been selected to lead Transportation Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Kemnitz to step down as Primate Center director Jan. 9, 2009 Joseph W. Kemnitz, who has led Wisconsin's National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) for more than a decade, announced this week (Jan. 9) that he plans to step down from his position as director of the center and return to the faculty at the end of 2009.
  • Image of collection specimen Bringing modern roots to a traditional collection Dec. 18, 2008 Ken Cameron joined the faculty earlier this year as an associate professor of botany and director of the Wisconsin State Herbarium. He cites the botany department — one of a relative few remaining university botany departments, most having folded into larger biology departments — as a strong draw, along with the mix of teaching, research and administrative duties offered by his joint appointment.
  • Student Services Tower move under way Dec. 12, 2008 Several campus units have started the eagerly awaited process of relocating to the new Student Services Tower at 333 East Campus Mall.
  • Retention: Keeping pace as competition intensifies Dec. 10, 2008 While UW–Madison received high-profile publicity in the past year suggesting the campus has been hit disproportionately hard by outside offers, new data compiled by Provost Patrick Farrell’s staff tell a different story: UW–Madison is holding its own on the faculty recruitment and retention front.
  • UW-Madison, Greek community host safety forum Nov. 10, 2008 Students, faculty and staff are invited to a special campus forum to discuss downtown safety issues in the wake of a string of recent armed robberies.
  • Flu shot availability begins Nov. 3 Nov. 5, 2008 The Environment, Health and Safety Department will again offer a variety of times and locations for on-campus flu shot clinics.
  • University restores second-shift starting time for custodians Oct. 20, 2008 Recognizing the personal needs of its second-shift custodians and inviting them to share their ideas for how the university can more efficiently care for its buildings, campus officials today (Oct. 20) restored the starting times for about 145 workers to 5 p.m.
  • Reaccreditation video project: Being a responsible and sustainable campus Oct. 15, 2008 The third installment in a weekly video report showcasing major ideas emerging from the UW-Madison 2009 Reaccreditation Project features housing director Paul Evans and library sciences professor Louise Robbins.
  • Faculty, staff authors featured at book festival Oct. 13, 2008 Now in its seventh year, the Wisconsin Book Festival has something for everyone during five days of panels, workshops and performances by local and nationally recognized authors. UW–Madison plays a large role in the festival, from hosting campus events to spotlighting books published by the UW Press.
  • Anthropology professor honored by Librarian of Congress Oct. 2, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney has been named John W. Kluge Distinguished Chair of Modern Culture by the Librarian of Congress.
  • UW-Madison tests text-messaging service Oct. 1, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted the first full-scale test of WiscAlerts-Text, its emergency text-messaging service, at 1:15 p.m. today (Oct. 1).
  • UWPD seeks info on Bascom mugging Sept. 12, 2008 A UW-Madison staff member escaped injury on Sept. 11 after being mugged by two men outside Bascom Hall. The incident took place at 9:45 p.m. near the southwest corner of the building, according to UWPD.
  • Online 'Discovery Portal' meant to foster greater research collaboration Sept. 9, 2008 The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is launching a new and powerful online resource for finding researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Wisconsin Discovery Portal, located at http://discoveryportal.org, is a Web-based search tool and directory offering professional profiles of 2,600 UW-Madison researchers.
  • New initiative launches to provide students with timely textbook information Aug. 27, 2008 A cooperative textbook project between the Office of the Registrar and the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) was launched on Aug. 18.
  • Prospective college faculty visit UW-Richland Aug. 13, 2008 A group of 10 graduate and postdoctoral students from UW-Madison visited the UW-Richland campus on July 3.
  • Help shape IT policy at UW-Madison July 30, 2008 The campus is now engaged in an ongoing effort to review and update information technology policies, and faculty and staff input can help to make that effort a success.
  • Faculty expertise central to Grandparents University success July 17, 2008 Before strip malls and subdivisions cropped up around Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison students often earned extra money in the summer by plucking fat, green worms from tobacco plants in nearby Sun Prairie.