Check Out the Go Big Read Book Title

From nearly 400 nominated titles, Chancellor Biddy Martin selected In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan for the inaugural “Go Big Read.” The common reading program, designed to engage students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members in a shared, academically focused reading experience, will launch this fall.

Office Hours Available Online

Office Hours, a 30-minute talk show on the Big Ten Network, features UW faculty making a difference, from unlocking the DNA of the common cold to studying the economy. The show is hosted by UW professor Ken Goldstein and produced by his political science students and University Communications.

Affordable Health Care for Farmers

A UW-Madison physician is partnering with the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives to lower health insurance costs for farmers and their families.

Spring Grads Join Alumni Ranks

Read stories of students who rose to the top while they were on campus, view spring 2009 commencement speeches and a slide show of the proud graduates. And don’t miss a special Wisconsin Alumni Association feature article by WAA intern Mallory Gillikin ’09 about her commencement experience and her last day as a UW undergraduate student.

ASK ABE: By Whom Does the Bell Toll?

Bill Olson ’73 asks Abe: “As a student during the late 1960s, I recall that Bach’s ‘Sleepers Wake’ was played every weekday at 1:00 p.m. I always assumed that this was a wake-up call to students relaxing at lunch to get ready for 1:20 p.m. classes. What's the full story behind this tradition?”

Honest Abe answers your questions.

WIN COOL STUFF

Leon Harris of Milwaukee won last month’s prize, a pair of Motion W binoculars. Winning this month’s prize, an autographed copy of Test Drive Your Dream Job by Brian Kurth, is as easy as answering the Question of the Week — just our way of saying thanks for reading ONline WISCONSIN! Log in now to play.