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.June 2009
Welcome to the first edition of Letters & Science News & Notes!
Thank you everyone for your story submissions during the busy end-of-the-year-run.
News & Notes are broken into six neighborhoods and also are tagged by department, programs, units and centers. Every month we will also select five TOP STORIES which will be e-mailed to all faculty, lecturers and staff in the college. Top Stories represent a variety of L&S news for the month. The best ones are usually short and sweet.
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Top Stories
- Henry Luce Foundation awards $500,000 grant
- UW professors to run summer seminars abroad
- History Dept. hosts alumni summit, looks ahead to the future
- Mazarov to speak at Int'l Congress of Mathematicians
- Chem students give thanks via YouTube
Area Studies
- Henry Luce Foundation awards $500,000 grant
- African Studies Director to lead 30 day trip to Rwanda
- German Academic Exchange Service receives 2008-12 continuation grant
- Center for Southeast Asian Studies will offer new undergrad certificate this fall
- German notables visit campus this spring
- EUCE completes a busy and succesful year
- European Union Center for Excellence welcomed int'l guest as 2008-09 scholar in residence
- African Studies unveils "Africa Forward"
Biological & Physical Sciences
- Rabinowitz receives honorary degree from Complutense University
- Mazarov to speak at Int'l Congress of Mathematicians
- NSF awards $6.7m to Center for Limnology
- Vander Zanden gave prestigious lecture in Jan '09
- UW researchers published in "Langmuir"
- Emshwiller is the new Society for Economic Botany prez
- Goodbyes and hellos in Geography
- BioCore Outreach Ambassador Program finishes up a big year
- Geography receives big honors in '08-09
- Comp Sci wins '09 Software System Award
- Chem students give thanks via YouTube
- Bader receives 2009 SPA Frontline Award
- Two-year assessment underway in BioCore
- WHAM gets a facelift, goes back to inspecting night skies
College Updates
- Support AAP students, meet former UW football players on May 20
- Dean's News: Chazen Groundbreaking
- Dean's News: Regents Approve Madison Initiative
- Dean's News: Mellon Grant Establishes 12 New Faculty Lines
- Honors hosted "Our Campus, Our World" conference
- Honors leaving South Hall
Humanities & the Arts
- 12 German scholars presented at spring conference
- Faculty books become non-fiction best-sellers in Germany
- Five students garner top Japanese language awards
- Cowell is the new African Languages & Literature chair
- Nienhauser receives $17K grant to support "Shiji" translation
- Theatre & Drama announces 2008-09 award winners
- Theatre & Drama awards 43 scholarships totaling more than $30K
- Hausman elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Donors make $20 million committment to School of Music performance center
- School of Music anounces faculty, staff and student awards
- UW professors to run summer seminars abroad
- Max Kade Institute Celebrated 25th Anniversary in April
- "Language Matters for Wisconsin" gets boost from WI Idea Endowment Grant
- LISAR undertook two major events this spring
- Linguistics student will focus on Indian language preservation this summer
- Aylward, three UW students returning to Turkey this summer
- Nyhart's new book charts the rise of ecology in late 19th century Germany
- Another successful year for "Great World Texts"
- Center for the Humanities annouces 2009-2010 workshops
- History helps secure "Teach American History" grant
- History Dept. hosts alumni summit, looks ahead to the future
- Troxel receives L&S Student Advising Award
- Hebrew & Semitic Studies alum to teach at St. Andrews University
- Aylward featured online in Nationall Geographic Magazine
- Undergrad classics students garner awards
- Chican@ & Latin@ Studies student receives Regent Jesus Salas Award
- Beltran receives faculty fellowship award
- Chazen breaks ground on 81,000 sq. ft. expansion
- Asian American Studies showcased Hmong American courses, events in '08-09
- Drewal's 'Mami Wata' debuts in D.C.
- Afro-American Studies faculty member serving in Nigeria
- Green receives a Cornell University research grant
Languages & Literature
Social Sciences
- Moynihan organized "From Sandbags to Sanity" symposium in April
- Morale presents work in San Fran, Minneapolis and Berlin
- Have you seen "Office Hours" yet?
- Holtz Center receives $5,000 award from Alliant Energy Foundation
- School of Social Work launches new part-time master's degree
- Psychology faculty garner top awards
- New co-edited volumes look at our social policy problems
- New undergrad certificate: "Integrated Studies in Science, Engineering and Society"
- IRP debuts first ever "Wisconsin Poverty Report"