L&S News & Notes is a monthly blog and e-newsletter for faculty,
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to expand.September 2009
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Top Stories
- Philosophy Ph.D student awarded Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- New course on Japanese comics
- Roberts is 1st Badger in '09 Google Policy Fellowship
- Hauser awarded $31m to support Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
- Washburn Observatory: Open House, Sept 11th 2-4pm
Area Studies
- Year-long series: "Supernatural Presences in East Asian Culture"
- Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations will speak on campus October 26th
- Brazil Initiative website now live
- New course on Japanese comics
- "Satellites" Exhibit to Open at Memorial Union September 25
- Workshop offered to middle, high school teachers: "The British in India: Art, Culture and Society"
- Human Rights Initiative awards $150k from Mellon Foundation
Biological & Physical Sciences
- Cameron travels to China, gives keynote speech at int'l orchid symposium
- Allen finishes '08-09 term as President of Int'l Society for Systems Sciences
- Cochrane returns from Colombia
- L&S Profs Stanimirovic and McDermott named '09 Cottrell Scholars
- Outstanding UW participation at the AIS conference in Israel
- "Galileo under Wisconsin Skies" brings art, science and history to UW
- Physics to host int'l conference "Neutrinos and Dark Matter" Aug 31-Sept 4
- Geography students work to complete world maps
- Geography Department bids farewell to retiring State Cartographer Ted Koch
College Updates
Humanities & the Arts
- "The Revolt of the Beavers" in October at Hemsley Theatre
- New program will help junior faculty prepare first academic books
- Feldhay Brenner awarded Weinstein-Bascom Professorship
- Potter named Director of the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
- Center for Humanities moves to University Club
- Philosophy Ph.D student awarded Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- Afro-Am Studies welcomes new faculty member
- Martin wins awards for book on American material culture
- Suri talks North Korea, Bill Clinton & nukes on WPR
Languages & Literature
Social Sciences
- Saffran will be next guest on "Office Hours"
- "Office Hours" tackles the economy, features econ professor John Karl Scholz
- New Book on Reducing Poverty in 21st Century
- Communication Arts professor receives $450k to study deliberation
- $2.5m grant will focus on health, aging
- Roberts is 1st Badger in '09 Google Policy Fellowship
- Hauser awarded $31m to support Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
- Trinidad, Tobago Delegation visit UW-Madison for land management training