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• CD-ROM Broadens Student Experience in Yoruba Class April 7, 1997 Students in Antonia Schleicher's Yoruba class say her instructional CD-ROM allows them to learn a complicated language at their own pace.
• Plant Science Teaching Goes High-Tech in New UW Greenhouse April 2, 1997 With a gallery of computerized temperature, humidity and light controls, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's new instructional greenhouse will have plant science students cultivating in high-tech style.
• Lanscape Architecture Students to Exhibit Designs April 1, 1997 About 20 undergraduate and graduate landscape-architects-in-training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will display their handiwork April 6-20 at the UW-Madison Gallery of Design.
• UW-Madison To Offer MBA in Agribusiness March 31, 1997 Beginning this fall, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will join a handful of schools where students can earn an MBA in agribusiness.
• Lanscape Architecture Students to Exhibit Designs March 31, 1997 About 20 undergraduate and graduate landscape-architects-in-training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will display their handiwork April 6-20 at the UW-Madison Gallery of Design.
• Advising Services Making Steady Progress Campus-Wide March 28, 1997 The hundreds of professionals involved in academic and career advising at UW-Madison have a shared mission and a full agenda for improvement through the three-year-old Council on Academic Advising (CAA).
• Student Technology Dollar Goes Further at UW-Madison March 27, 1997 Each semester, a 1.5 percent surcharge on each student's tuition (currently about $20 for a full-time resident undergraduate) goes into the Student Information Technology Initiative (SITI) fund.
• Guide to Midwestern Trees and Shrubs Now on CD-ROM March 24, 1997 Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest, a CD-ROM featuring color photos and information on more than 600 species and varieties of trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers that grow in the region is now available.
• Students To Get Prizes for High-Tech Business Plans March 20, 1997 Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will team up to create a business plan for a technology-based business venture as part of a new campus competition.
• Madison JASON '97 Web Site Hits the Air March 10, 1997 UW-Madison Sea Grant is developing Madison JASON '97 on behalf of the 4th- through 8th-grade Madison-area students and their teachers.
• Non-mainstream Groups Find
  Community Through Films at UW March 4, 1997 Organizers of several film series say an important function of their programs is building community, forging important ties to the external community, as well as strengthening bonds among members of a particular group.
• Canine Design: Students Create Tools for Service Dogs March 3, 1997 With a $300 budget and abundant creativity, freshman engineering students have created two clever products that have clients smiling and tails wagging at the Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs (WAGS).
• Center for Jewish Studies Acquires Scholarly Collections Feb. 18, 1997 Recent gifts to the University of Wisconsin Foundation for the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have supported the acquisition of three important scholarly collections.
• School of Education gets boost from Spencer Foundation Feb. 14, 1997 The Spencer Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to the School of Education to support graduate students in doctoral-degree programs.
• New Program Aims To Improve Written Communication Feb. 14, 1997 The Writing Fellows Program, to debut this fall, will train excellent undergraduate writers to help peers with the often-daunting task of writing effectively.
• Student Groups Benefit From Faculty Guidance Feb. 12, 1997 Interaction between faculty, staff and students does not have to end in the classroom.
• MBA Curriculum Receives Tune-Up for 21st Century Feb. 11, 1997