A new book on African-Americans in Wisconsin presents a current profile of the population and how it has changed during the past 25 years. The book now makes an earlier research report more accessible to professors, students and policy-makers.

For several dozen homeless grade-school students, it was one-on-one excitement: a chance to meet some heroes of the hardwood.

Donald R. Peterson, emeritus professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died of a heart attack Saturday, Aug. 8 in Madison. He was 73 years old.

The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association presented a check for $5,000 to the Norman F. Olson Cheese Research Scholarship fund July 23, bringing the fund to “critical mass” for annual support of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student.