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  • 'Wisconsin Votes' explores lively history of state voting behavior May 14, 2008 Growing up in a politically divided house — with a Democratic mother and a Republican father — may have been one of the best things that could have happened to Robert Booth Fowler.
  • Geography students put local foods on the map May 14, 2008 As temperatures warm, farm fields begin to green and outdoor farmers' markets get under way, the time is ripe for thinking about local foods. For Madison residents, finding locally produced foods is now just a mouse click away.
  • UW-Madison builds new entrepreneurship learning community May 13, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison will launch a new living and learning community next fall for students interested in entrepreneurship.
  • Symposium marks a decade of big strides in teaching, learning May 13, 2008 If a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate were to return to campus today after a ten-year absence, the first impression would be striking: A building boom has altered the landscape with glimmering new buildings and additions, while another wave of construction busily charges ahead.
  • Notable graduates: Leann Barden — Research leads to help for dysphagia sufferers May 13, 2008 UW-Madison food science graduate Leann Barden made a commitment to the field when she began researching and developing beverages suitable for people diagnosed with dysphagia, a swallowing disorder that affects nearly 18 million adults and children and is currently the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
  • Notable graduates: Spring 2008 commencement May 13, 2008 Approximately 5,000 students will receive degrees from UW-Madison during spring commencement ceremonies May 16-18. Following are stories of some individual students who have done remarkable work while on campus.
  • Photo of math tutoring session ourside Van Vleck Hall Recent sightings: Sidewalk math May 13, 2008
  • Photo of Hoopla Rack Engineering senior turns her hobby into cash May 12, 2008 It started off pretty simply. Danielle McIntosh, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior graduating in biological systems engineering, was intrigued by a friend who brought his hula hoop over to her apartment. She and her roommates would try out practicing with the hoop, and she found herself thinking about it even when her friend wasn’t around.
  • Alumni ‘fired up’ about latest innovation May 8, 2008 After selling the first company he founded for more than $1 million, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering alum Chad Sorenson wasn't sure what to do next.
  • Photo of a microscope Virus mimics human protein to hijack cell division machinery May 8, 2008 Viruses are masters of deception, duping their host's cells into helping them grow and spread. A new study has found that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery, disrupting a cell's primary anti-cancer mechanism.
  • Biocore program turns 40 May 7, 2008 An innovative undergraduate biology program on campus is celebrating its 40th birthday.
  • Symposium marks a decade of big strides in teaching, learning at UW-Madison May 7, 2008 If a UW-Madison graduate were to return to campus today after a ten-year absence, the first impression would be striking: A building boom has altered the landscape with high-tech new buildings and additions, while another wave of construction busily charges ahead. Not as obvious to the visitor, however, would be the radical changes taking place within those walls.
  • Photo of student Students embrace Arabic in new International Learning Community May 1, 2008 Arabic script runs along the dormitory hall of the third floor in Adams Hall. To an outsider it looks like an intricate design flowing among the plaster, but to the residents it provides direction and introductions to their fellow floormates.
  • Photo from announcement of Life During Wartime project ‘Life During Wartime’ will build innovative curriculum around American war history April 30, 2008 A new Wisconsin project funded by the U.S. Department of Education will feature an unprecedented partnership among public school teachers, university and technical college faculty, and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum to invigorate the teaching of American history.
  • Portion of Tong biomedical prize logo Wisconsin biomedical engineering students design meaningful medical solutions April 30, 2008 When University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Claire Flanagan graduates in May 2009 with bachelor's degrees in biomedical engineering (BME) and biochemistry, she might display her diploma next to an equally prestigious document: a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • UW-Madison students again rise to the entrepreneurial challenge April 29, 2008 For the second straight year, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison flexed their entrepreneurial muscle as they turned surplus materials into new creations.
  • Photo of Skop With cell as muse, art fuels scientist’s quest April 28, 2008 For Ahna Skop, the tipping point to a career in science was a dance and a food fight.
  • Facility gives geology department new dimension April 28, 2008 A geoscience visualization lab that opened last week in Weeks Hall will add a new dimension to geology research and education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Everyone’s invited to attend UW during Day on Campus April 28, 2008 It's a dream of many to learn on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) again this spring offers the opportunity to turn those dreams into reality for those who lived the dream years ago, or for anyone wants a campus experience.
  • Veggies in the sky: Grocery business takes top honors in Burrill contest April 24, 2008 In an era of globe-trotting food, consumers sometimes need an atlas to navigate the produce aisle. But two University of Wisconsin-Madison students have an intriguing idea for how to get vegetables on grocery shelves without the jet lag. Their solution? Look up.