UW Hospital hits major milestone with 2,000th liver transplant
Scott A. Vanderloop of Appleton, Wis. received a second chance at life recently after becoming the 2,000th patient to receive a liver transplant at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison. Read More
UW’s veterinary medical school adopts wildlife health project
Outbreaks of disease in wildlife may seem remote and, for most humans, inconsequential. But disease events that arise in wild animal populations can be far-reaching and can even pose a threat to humans and domestic animals far removed from the source of animal affliction. Read More
Students allowed to opt out of student org mass emails
Students who wish to block email messages from registered student organizations can now select that option via their Student Center. Read More
IAP scholars to help students ‘discover the world and bring it back to Wisconsin’
International Academic Programs (IAP), the largest study abroad office at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has launched a scholarship program that offers individual awards starting at $2,500 to enable more students to study abroad and then share their experiences with the campus community after they return. Read More
Nominate an adult undergraduate for an Outstanding Returning Adult Student Award
Each year the Office of Adult Career and Special Student Services recognizes two adult students with the Outstanding Undergraduate Returning Adult Student Award. Read More
Bright minds and big ideas to come together at second Big Learning Event
In June 2011, some 330 participants attended the first Big Learning Event (BLE), jumping into a mosh pit of minds and ideas for unbridled thinking and questioning. Led by some of the world's brightest minds from disparate disciplines, attendees developed ideas for campus and forged new boundary-busting connections. Read More
Research quest aims to cure hearing loss at its root
The ultimate cause of hearing loss is usually found in the tiny hair cells that play the crucial role of converting sound waves into nerve impulses for delivery to the brain. Read More
UW-Madison engineer named to National Academy of Engineering
David Gustafson, a University of Wisconsin–Madison industrial and systems engineer, was named Feb. 7 to the 2013 class of new members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Read More
Weiden to serve as interim legal director
Michael Weiden, a retired partner with the law firm Quarles & Brady, has been appointed as interim director of Office of Administrative Legal Services, Interim Chancellor David Ward announced. Weiden will begin March 1. Read More
Secretary of Academic Staff Donna Silver retires
Donna Silver didn’t plan to retire this soon. “This is my dream job,” Silver says of being secretary of the Academic Staff for the past three years. But last March, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, cancer of the bones. She was given two years to live. After months of being on medical leave, Silver officially retired Jan. 3. On Feb. 11, she was honored at the Academic Staff Assembly Meeting. Read More
Strike against cancer at Bowlin’ for Colons
Bowlers from across Wisconsin plan to “pin” colorectal cancer by participating in the twelfth annual Bowlin’ for Colons fundraiser on Sunday, March 3. Read More
Isotopic Data Show Farming Arrived in Europe with Migrants
For decades, archaeologists have debated how farming spread to Stone Age Europe, setting the stage for the rise of Western civilization. Now, new data gleaned from the teeth of prehistoric farmers and the hunter-gatherers with whom they briefly overlapped shows that agriculture was introduced to Central Europe from the Near East by colonizers who brought farming technology with them. Read More
Video tool could help active workers avoid injury
Using just video of workers performing tasks such as assembling a manufactured part or packing boxes, a system developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers might soon be able to automatically assess the likelihood that workers will develop common repetitive-motion injuries. Read More
Technique moves practical Alzheimer diagnosis one step closer to reality
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health are moving closer to a significant milepost in the battle against Alzheimer's disease: identifying the first signs of decline in the brain. Read More
Fishing rod holder for boat, land or ice is champion of 2013 innovation competition
A self-adjusting, boat-mounted holder for fishing rods has won the top prize and $10,000 in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, one of a pair of University of Wisconsin–Madison innovation competitions. Held Feb. 7 and 8, the Innovation Days competitions reward UW–Madison undergraduates for creative and marketable ideas. Read More
Journalism students learn ethics through online case study
You're a college student working for a news service, and your editor asks you to check out a breaking-news situation. Read More
UW-Madison response to Board of Regents PETA protest
Following today's protest by actor James Cromwell at the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Eric Sandgren, director of the UW–Madison Research Animal Resource Center released the following statement. Read More
Darwin Day celebrates evolutionary diversity of sex and reproduction
The annual celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will showcase the evolutionary expressions of sex and reproduction in the natural world. Read More