News - October 1998

  1. Underkofler ‘Excellence in Teaching’ awards given to four UW System teachers

    October 23, 1998

    MADISON — Four University of Wisconsin System teachers today received $5,000 awards as recipients of the 1998 Alliant Energy “Underkofler Excellence in Teaching” Awards. The teachers are: Jan Heide, associate professor of business marketing, UW-Madison; Donald Passman, professor of mathematics, UW-Madison; Sayeed Payesteh. associate professor of business and economics, UW-Fond du Lac; Lisa Riedle, associate […]

  2. University of Wisconsin System President commends System-wide library group-license accord

    October 21, 1998

    MADISON — The University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries have negotiated a group license agreement on behalf of all UW System libraries to receive all 26 World Wide Web journals published by the American Chemical Society, UW System President Katharine C. Lyall announced today. Negotiating System-wide licenses, instead of licenses for individual campuses, allows wider access to […]

  3. Free speech discussed at UW System Board of Regents meeting

    October 9, 1998

    GREEN BAY — Recent challenges to free speech on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus should remind us of the importance of free speech to a great university, UW System Board of Regents President San Orr Jr. said Friday. The impromptu discussion followed two recent incidents on the UW-Madison campus and subsequent University Committee public concern […]