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.May 2010
Welcome to the May Issue of News & Notes, our second to last issue of the semester!
The following stories are news and events in and around the Letters & Science community.
The semester is wrapping up and it will be summer soon. We will publish one more in issue in June before a short summer hiatus. The blog will be updated throughout summer, so send in your stories. In September, we’ll publish a Welcome Back Issue.
As always, thank you for sending in your news and continue doing so to LSNews@ls.admin.wisc.edu.
Our next deadline is May 25th, 2010.
See you next month,
- Dean Gary Sandefur
May Issue printer friendly version
Top Stories
- L&S scores a second grand slam at the Distinguished Alumni Awards
- Political science, journalism alum earns second Pulitzer Prize
- Bucky meets social robots for first National Robotics Week
- UW Physics partnership in China will help unravel neutrino mysteries
- Gift will establish new Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture
Area Studies
- LACIS student presents at Undergraduate Symposium
- Post-event: 'Brazil Night' a big success
- LACIS wraps up the month
Biological & Physical Sciences
- UW's computer sciences plays a big role in Google's data storage
- Computer Sciences Student Team wins Hirsch Family Award
- Bucky meets social robots for first National Robotics Week
- UW researchers identify a potential habitat for endangered European bison
- Gellman elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Interdisciplinary team launches new efforts to untangle evolutionary histories
- UW Physics partnership in China will help unravel neutrino mysteries
- Astronomy graduate student awarded Fulbright fellowship
- Kitchell awarded lifetime achievement recognition
College Updates
- L&S scores a second grand slam at the Distinguished Alumni Awards
- Actress Jane Kaczmarek to be next guest on Wisconsin Reflections
- Energy savings on display at Helen C. White 4/19-4/21
- L&S graduate programs highly rated by U.S. News and World Report
- Burkett, Turino receive 2010 Classified Employee Recognition Awards
- L&S faculty take home eight Distinguished Teaching Awards
Humanities & the Arts
- Pawley publishes book examining role of public libraries
- Schleicher honored on campus and nationally for her distinguished service
- Hill, Stevens keep up with a full spring concert schedule
- Standing-room-only audience turns out for two-part “Future of Energy”
- LISAR wraps up Undergrad Forum, invites students to apply for 2010-11
- Year of Humanities finishes with events, performances
- Mirkin honored by Chi Omega for her teaching
- 21st Annual German Day competition for middle and high schoolers
- German Department honors its undergraduate, graduate students
- Into the Woods: April 16-May 1
- Winspur, Palm praised for their work in French & Italian
- Albert Camus Colloquium: April 22-23, marking the 50 years since his death
- Gift will establish new Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture
- History program, Suri profiled in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Grant establishes new undergraduate Russian Flagship Center
Social Sciences
- Hendley receives Kellet Mid-Career Award
- Avramenko receives William H. Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award
- Downs named Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science
- Walsh, Mukherji receive campus teaching awards
- Political science, journalism alum earns second Pulitzer Prize
- Political Science Department offers online summer courses
- Journalism professor publishes two books on global media ethics
- Ethics center releases ground-breaking report for conference
- Anthro alumnus invited to Presidential Summit on Entrepeneurship
- Bordwell featured in New York Times 'You Can Judge a Book by its Movie'
- Social Work awards Sec. Gassman the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award
- Shah, Curtin edit eclectic examination of Indian, Chinese media
- Havens Center honors Noam Chomsky with Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship
- J-School Faculty Associate named to top press post
- Journalism students win state awards from Milwaukee Press Club
- La Follette School to host discussion about modern-day slavery
- First Ouisconsin Field Research Scholarship awarded