March 2010
Welcome to the March Issue of News & Notes.
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 March 26th, 2010.
See you next month,
- Dean Gary Sandefur
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Top Stories
- Hausman elected to Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell Professorship
- Monkey music research makes list in NYT Magazine Annual Ideas issue
- L&S student wins Churchill Scholar Award -- UW's first in 30 years
- IRP named new USDA National Food Assistance Research hub
- Mellon Foundation grant establishes post-docs in humanities
Area Studies
- CREECA celebrates Lithuanian Independence Day, legacy of Al Senn
- WAGE hosts workshops aimed at implications of international law
- Thai Reader now online
- Gade publishes thorough introduction to the Qur'an
- Davis publishes book on Hindu law with Cambridge University Press
Biological & Physical Sciences
- Liu named fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- Botany team helps make Darwin Day a success
- Spalding, Botany co-authors publish research on seedling development
- Zhang named a 2010 Sloan Research Fellow
- Hill wins Kellet Mid-Career Award
- Harris wins Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
- Ian-Woo Kim wins Outstanding Young Researcher Award
- Litovsky elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- Thurber elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- Diane Bless Chair in Otolaryngology
College Updates
- L&S student wins Churchill Scholar Award -- UW's first in 30 years
- Mellon Foundation grant establishes post-docs in humanities
- What is Bob up to?
Humanities & the Arts
- Murray curates ground-breaking exhibition in New York
- Wind Ensemble travels Wisconsin, Minnesota
- Narukami - The Thunder God opens today
- Exhibition on Lydian Sardis, curated by Nick Cahill, opens in Istanbul
- Max Kade Institute to host int'l conference, student workshop on transnationalism
- Save the date: 'Are There Limits to Our Dialogue?' April 13, 2010
- Journal of the History of Philosophy moves to UW-Madison
- Hausman elected to Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell Professorship
- Narukami - The Thunder God opens February 26
Social Sciences
- Legal studies alumna wins second gold medal in Olympics
- Save the date: 'Science and the Public Series' 3/11, 3/18
- Grad students team up to create int'l Music Library Student Group
- Psych alumnus wins early career contribution award
- Psychology dedicated to Teaching Mission
- Gooding named an Outstanding Women of Color
- Postle receives H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
- Alumni, journalists debate the future of journalism
- Monkey music research makes list in NYT Magazine Annual Ideas issue
- Jacobs gives talks in Germany, Florida in February
- Miyamoto receives Vilas Associates Award
- Psychology alumnus wins early career award
- IRP named new USDA National Food Assistance Research hub
- Blum contributes op-ed to NYT
- Morales featured in AP story on urban farming





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