L&S News & Notes is a monthly blog and e-newsletter for faculty,
staff, graduate students and alumni and friends of the UW-Madison 
to expand.April 2010
Welcome to the April Issue of News & Notes.
I hope everyone had a great spring break and is finding time to enjoy the spring weather in Madison.
The following stories are news and events in and around the Letters & Science community.
As always, thank you for sending in your news and continue doing so to LSNews@ls.admin.wisc.edu.
Our next deadline is April 27th, 2010.
See you next month,
- Dean Gary Sandefur
April Issue printer friendly version
Top Stories
- L&S student wins $250,000 fellowship
- L&S physicists gear up for new collisons at the LHC
- 100+ attend World Languages Day for the Community
- Journalism students honored for reporting
- LISAR to host two lectures at the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in Milwaukee
Area Studies
- New Hindi language and culture course kicks off
- Save the Date: Baltic Studies Summer Institute June 14-August 6
Biological & Physical Sciences
- L&S physicists gear up for new collisons at the LHC
- L&S faculty honored by American Chemical Society
- Limnologists launch Aquatic Invasive Species web tool
- Carpenter participates in NSF symosium
College Updates
- L&S student wins $250,000 fellowship
- Save the Date: May 21, UW-Madison Furlough Service Day
- Collaborative sites taking off in L&S courses
- Four L&S faculty named Romnes Award winners
Humanities & the Arts
- Murray curates ground-breaking exhibition in New York
- 100+ attend World Languages Day for the Community
- Spencer receives career enhancement fellowship
- Stop by Helen C. White to celebrate Earth Week (April 19-23)
- Grant establishes new undergraduate Russian Flagship Center
- Great World Text Project builds on past success with 'Things Fall Apart'
- 'African Storyteller' collection now available online
- LISAR to host two lectures at the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in Milwaukee
- Professional French Master's Program turns 10, hosts symposium in May
- The Lady from the Sea: March 19-April 10 at Hemsley Theatre
- Schools announce new double degree in music, librarianship
- German rap artist performs to 600+ at the union
- World Languages Day: A Special Community Event - 3/13
- Ngugi a guest on BBC World Service 'The Strand'
Social Sciences
- COWS report proposes a greener, more equitable skills agenda
- IRP to host seminars focusing on globalization in the Midwest, transmission of inequality
- Journalism students honored for reporting
- March 21: 'All You Ever Wanted to Know About American Indians But Were Afraid to Ask'
- Morales's publications garner attention from national, local media
- Jacobs gives inaugural address at Canadian national conference