The Wisconsin Week Wire–April 26, 2006
Top News
Economics grad gives $1 million to endow professorship
Richard Meese, an economist and expert on foreign currency exchange rates, has given $1 million to UW–Madison to establish a professorship in applied econometrics.
Five faculty elected to prestigious academy
Five faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Prevention encouraged after student’s mumps diagnosis
Prevention steps are being encouraged after a 20-year-old undergraduate was diagnosed with the first case of mumps to appear in the UW–Madison campus community.
Features
Art, engineering join in outdoor exhibit
Engineering graduate student Steve Preston is creating a series of massive paper-tube arches for his outdoor exhibit, “Portals to an Architecture,” May 1-14 on the College of Engineering campus. The display has been under construction this week.
On Campus
Events calendar
Diversity forum to focus on future
Students, faculty and staff are invited to spend part of Friday, April 28, talking about the university’s efforts to strengthen diversity and improve campus climate.
Geology Museum open house coming April 30
The Geology Museum’s annual open house is scheduled for noon-4 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, at 1215 W. Dayton St.
Author to discuss his plan to end the welfare state
Charles Murray, author of “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State,” will visit UW–Madison on Friday, May 5, to discuss his idea to end all government welfare programs and instead provide an annual cash grant of $10,000 to everyone age 21 or older.
Students in PEOPLE program to present satire about African-American identity
“The Colored Museum” will be performed by the performing arts component of UW–Madison’s PEOPLE program at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 6, and at 6 p.m. on Sunday, May 7, in the Wisconsin Union Theater. Admission is free.
ePICS Expo reveals semester of nonprofit assistance
This semester, 116 undergraduate students enrolled in the e-Projects in Community Service course worked in interdisciplinary teams to design Web sites, build Web-based information systems, create logos, and develop marketing plans and materials for 14 nonprofit “client” organizations. The projects will be on display and students will be on hand to discuss their work at the spring ePICS Expo from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Monday, May 1, at the Engineering Centers Building.
Crime documentary gets advance screening at Law School
“Facing Life: The Retrial of Evan Zimmerman,” a new true-crime documentary that premieres in June on A&E cable television network, will have an advance special screening Thursday, April 27, at the Law School.
Mosse Program plans international conference
The Mosse Program in the Department of History will present “Reckoning with the Past: Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Post-Totalitarian Narritives and Politics” Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, at the Fluno Center. The program is a comparative international conference on who is and isn’t remembered in post-totalitarian societies. The conference is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.mosseprogram.wisc.edu, or contact John Tortorice at jtortori@wisc.edu or 263-1835.
Student projects to be featured at CALS Undergraduate Research Symposium
About 50 undergraduate research projects conducted by students in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will be presented at a symposium from 1-4:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 29, at the Biochemistry Annex’s atrium. The public is invited. This year’s symposium will feature original works by students majoring in biochemistry, genetics, biology, landscape architecture, horticulture, food science and agricultural journalism. Some will summarize their projects in posters, while others will show PowerPoint presentations. All are products of collaboration among UW–Madison faculty and students. To learn more, contact Melissa Mastroianni at mmastroianni@wisc.edu or 220-3002.
MadHatters concert series planned for this weekend
The MadHatters men’s a cappella group will host its biggest concert series on Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29, at the Overture Center. Both shows begin at 8 p.m. Reserved tickets are available through the Overture Center box office at 258-4141 or at http://www.overturecenter.com The box office is open from 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. weekdays and from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturdays. Ticket prices range from $8-$22. To learn more about the group, visit http://www.uwmadhatters.com
Milestones
Three faculty elected to National Academy of Science
Three members of the UW–Madison faculty were among 72 individuals elected this week to the National Academy of Sciences.