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 2010
Welcome to the last L&S News & Notes of the season!
It's summer in Madison -- many of our students have gone home, away to internships and jobs. Similarly, many of our faculty are participating in summer research or teaching courses.
L&S News & Notes will be on a short hiatus until September. There will be no monthly e-newsletter until our "Welcome Back" Issue in September. The blog will still be up and running so please continue sending your news to LSNews@ls.admin.wisc.edu.
This has been a great year and I've really enjoyed reading about the many accomplishments and successes across the College of Letters & Science.
Enjoy your summer and see you in fall!
- Dean Gary Sandefur
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Top Stories
- Local educators travel to Arizona for an astronomical adventure
- Journalism Ethics Conference goes global
- UW-Madison undergrad one of three to win system Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition
- L&S 'Forward Under Forty' are movers, shakers
- Health by Motorbike: UW faculty, students head to Kenya this summer
Area Studies
- Summer program offers intensive study of Baltic area languages
- L&S graduate is an inspiring story of success
- Gálvez visits UW-Madison for lecture, guest spot on WPR's 'Here on Earth'
- 11 LACIS undergraduates receive internship, research grants
Biological & Physical Sciences
- Bless honored with James E. Newcomb Award
- Connor awarded fellowship from national association
- Local educators travel to Arizona for an astronomical adventure
- Geography honors students with awards
- Geography (Madison) to Geography (Beijing) linkages
- Geography undergraduate Miller honored with Leadership Trust Award
- Astronomy Board sees Space Shuttle Atlantis up close and personal
- Ciucci receives early career award from national association
- Two limnologists receive Young Student Awards
- Young chemist wins $200k Shaw Scientist Award
- Zoology bids goodbye to Stuedel, welcomes three new faculty
- Star Tracker 5000 flies its 8th mission with help from UW astronomers
- Save the Date - 'Science in the Northwoods 2010' Sept 29-Oct 1
- Friday June 4: Looking for alien life at the ballpark
- Ackerman honored with NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal
College Updates
- Pathways to Excellence Board establishes fund to honor Cronon's legacy
- UW-Madison undergrad one of three to win system Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition
- Washburn Observatory wins Civic Rehabilitation award
- L&S Honors Program hands out first distinguished faculty awards
- L&S 'Forward Under Forty' are movers, shakers
- AAP students try out an alternative Spring Break
Humanities & the Arts
- Children map the world, US students win International Competition
- 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: July 8-24
- Drewal wraps up residency in Norwich, embarks on DC fellowship
- Magaña wins 2009-10 Women of Color award
- 'Telling Our Stories' empowers high school students to write creatively
- 11th Annual Greenfield Summer Institute 'The Wandering Jew' - July 11-15
- Enke awarded Feminist Scholars Fellowship
- Gender and Womens' Studies students complete spring community internships
- New perspectives on gender and human security workshop sparks ideas,engagement
- Lepowsky awarded Feminist Scholar, Institute for Research on the Humanities Fellowships
- 1000th major in Gender and Women’s Studies awarded in May
- Health by Motorbike: UW faculty, students head to Kenya this summer
Languages & Literature
Social Sciences
- Students take third in national advertising competition
- Ringe will teach a European Union Studies Summer Program in Brussels
- Shelef to publish book examining Israel over past eight decades
- Jacobs travels to Taiwan, continues legacy of international outreach
- Journalism Ethics Conference goes global
- Students travel to Orlando to battle for national advertising competition title
- Plight of the poor and what can be done about it: New books analyze poverty, policy
- Mixing poverty research and mentoring of the next generation
- Re-crunching the numbers: Supplemental Poverty Measure introduced
- SJMC students say it the best?