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Eight honored by UW–Madison as Outstanding Women of Color

July 22, 2014

Eight winners of the 2014-15 Outstanding Women of Color awards, who are heavily involved in the campus as well as the Madison community through their work toward research and civic enrichment, have been announced by UW–Madison. Read More

UW researchers create safe, resistant material to store waste

July 18, 2014

Storing industrial waste has never been a pretty job, and it's getting harder. Read More

Something old, something new: Wisconsin Union Theater gets a makeover while maintaining historic feel

July 16, 2014

Renowned. Renewed. Restored. Those three words sum up the newly renovated Wisconsin Union Theater. While it won’t host its first official performance until Aug. 22-23 with “Kiss Me Kate,” a sneak peek inside reveals the building itself is quite the showstopper. Read More

Hungry, invasive ‘crazy worm’ makes first appearance in Wisconsin

July 15, 2014

Wisconsin's newest invasive species has done its best to stay underground, but the voracious, numerous and mysterious Asian crazy worm has emerged for the first time in the state on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More

Computer scientist and devoted educator Susan B. Horwitz dies

July 15, 2014

Professor of Computer Sciences Susan B. Horwitz, a devoted educator and researcher noted for service to her discipline on both the university and national levels, died June 11 at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. Horwitz, who was 59, had been battling stomach cancer. Read More

Campus switchover to new IT network completed

July 15, 2014

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has transitioned to a new high-speed advanced research and education Internet network. Read More

Best-ever efficiency points to clean, green gas-diesel engine

July 15, 2014

The one-cylinder test engine in the basement of a University of Wisconsin–Madison lab is connected to a life-support system of pipes, tubes, ducts and cables. You might think that the engine resembles a patient in intensive care, but in this case, the patient is not sick. Instead, the elaborate monitoring system shows that the engine can convert 59.5 percent of the chemical energy in its fuel into motion — significantly better than the 52 percent maximum in modern diesel truck engines. Read More

UW-Madison ranks 4th for public administration research

July 14, 2014

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is ranked fourth worldwide for public administration research in a new study published by the Journal of Public Affairs Education. Read More

Wisconsin scientists find genetic recipe to turn stem cells to blood

July 14, 2014

The ability to reliably and safely make in the laboratory all of the different types of cells in human blood is one key step closer to reality. Writing today (July 14, 2014) in the journal Nature Communications, a group led by University of Wisconsin–Madison stem cell researcher Igor Slukvin reports the discovery of two genetic programs responsible for taking blank-slate stem cells and turning them into both red and the array of white cells that make up human blood. Read More

University Health Services selects new prevention director

July 11, 2014

Jeanette Kowalik has been named the new director of prevention services and campus health initiatives at University Health Services (UHS), the student health clinic of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More

Aviation offers a way forward in biofuels research

July 8, 2014

Biofuels researchers are increasingly thinking about how the energy market is changing, which challenges them to balance the basic science of new fuels with a more holistic view of the most commercially viable ways to produce them. So when a group of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers began looking at how to make jet fuel from biomass, they also strived to create a "techno-economic" framework that would illuminate the entire biofuels field. Read More

Howard Karp, pianist and musical patriarch, dies at 84

July 8, 2014

Howard Karp, professor emeritus of piano at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died of complications of cardiac arrest on Monday, June 30 at the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colorado, close to his beloved summer home in Estes Park. He was 84. Read More

Lavigna book shows managers how to engage employees

July 8, 2014

You could say that Bob Lavigna, UW–Madison’s assistant vice chancellor-human resources, wrote the book on public-sector employee engagement. And you’d be right. Read More

DoIT installs new power system to avoid outages

July 8, 2014

A new system to avoid power outages on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus like the one that occurred on June 18 has been installed, according to the university’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT). Read More