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.August 2009
Welcome to the 3rd edition of Letters & Science News & Notes! Thank you to everyone for your notes.
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Below are the stories we received last month. Thank you again to everyone for your great work, keep it up.
The next deadline is Friday, August 21st -- please email your notes to LSNews.
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Top Stories
- UW-Madison Russia Experts Meet with Obama at Summit
- Online Chinese Courses for business professionals available in '09-10
- Center for Humanities receives $125K grant from A.W. Mellon Foundation
- BioCore completes a successful Annual Summer Science Camp
- Kitchell awarded NSF Rapid Response grant
Area Studies
- UW-Madison Russia Experts Meet with Obama at Summit
- Suri talks US/China relations with Ben Merens on WPR
- Center for South Asia will help host Madison Tibet Festival in September
- Center for South Asia organizes Fulbright Seminar pre-departure program
Biological & Physical Sciences
- Comp Sci, Adobe develop new video technique that removes shakiness
- Comp Sci welcomes three new faculty
- Students and teachers join astronomers on the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope
- Int'l wetlands conference draws +700 attendees to Madison
- Botanists trace origins of Venus's Flytrap
- BioCore completes a successful Annual Summer Science Camp
- Kitchell awarded NSF Rapid Response grant
- How can you tell when an ecosystem is on the verge of collapse?
College Updates
Humanities & the Arts
- Drewal helps open int'l traveling exhibit in Spain
- Emeritus Opera Director Named to Wisconsin Academy
- Online Chinese Courses for business professionals available in '09-10
- New Online Methods Courses for instructors of Less Commonly Taught Languages
- South Asian Summer Language Institute a big success in '09
- Center for Humanities receives $125K grant from A.W. Mellon Foundation
- Hebrew and Semitic Studies using innovative methods to teach Hebrew
- New Grand Strategy Class featured in AP story
- Lim wins Korean Studies Grant for his telecollaboration project at UW