Milestones
Perry Pickhardt, Department of Radiology, and Maureen Smith, Health Innovation Program, have received a $2.7 million grant supporting collaboration between their departments to investigate the… Read More
Brain responses during anesthesia mimic those during natural deep sleep
The brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep - lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma. Read More
Trees removed in Muir Woods
During the final week of winter break when there was very little vehicle and pedestrian traffic on Observatory Drive, Environmental Services staff took advantage of the lull and the relatively good weather to remove several dead, weak or broken trees along the top of Muir Woods. Read More
Brown bag to address challenges faced by academic staff supervisors
The College of Letters & Science Committee on Academic Staff Issues (CASI) will host a brown-bag brainstorm session to discuss the challenges that academic staff professionals face when supervising other academic staff professionals. Read More
University announces new online airfare booking tool
UW–Madison has announced a change in online travel booking procedures. Read More
Employees contribute to Partners in Giving despite economy
State, university and UW Hospital and Clinics employees contributed generously to the 2009 Partners in Giving charity fundraising campaign in spite of the state of the economy, furloughs, layoffs and retirements. Read More
University Roundtable begins with ‘Changing Your Brain’
The exciting new field of “contemplative neuroscience,” a Law School project that frees the wrongly convicted and the seasonal beauty of the Allen Centennial Gardens will be featured during the spring series of University Roundtable luncheon presentations. Read More
Forum explores climate change, human security
Why did Viking settlements, seemingly well-suited to harsh northern environments, survive centuries of climate change in some places but fail in others? Read More
Scholarship recipient strives to help others
In Stephanie Lind’s neighborhood, kids left high school to get married or to work, but Stephanie’s mom believed college was important. Read More
Mathematician takes a turn in the laboratory
Despite growing up in a medical family whose dinner table talk often revolved around strange diseases and interesting bodily quirks, Julie Simons’ first love wasn’t biology. In high school, the UW–Madison mathematics graduate student became captivated by geometry. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, she majored in math and minored in statistics. And upon graduating, she did an internship in cryptography and code breaking. Read More
Year of the Humanities events continue into spring
Languages, literary fame, poetry, filmmaking and the supernatural are topics included in the programming lineup for the spring semester of the Year of the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Process redesign project honors three years of progress
Three years into the Administrative Process Redesign project, the campuswide initiative to create better business practices has built a track record of success and a stronger campus climate. Read More
The person behind the building
Editor’s note: The following series provides the history behind the naming of UW–Madison’s buildings. Read More
We Conserve: Be the We
This column features the We Conserve program and its work on campus. Learn more at http://www.conserve.wisc.edu. Read More
TIP/The end of ‘Lost’
Jan. 26, 2010 Read More
Federal grant funds production of stem cells for clinical trials
The long struggle to move the most versatile stem cells from the laboratory to the clinic got another boost with an $8.8 million contract award to the Waisman Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Police urge safety focus after Saturday robbery
UW-Madison and city police are urging a focus on personal safety in the wake of an armed robbery involving a UW–Madison student at around 7:40 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23. Read More
