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UW-Madison seminar marks 50 years of the Civil Rights Act

March 12, 2014

A daylong seminar focusing on civil rights, "A Nation Still Under Construction: Observing the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act," will be held on Wednesday, March 26. Read More

UW hosts national leader in new era of Alzheimer’s prevention research

March 12, 2014

By the time today’s 30-year-olds are senior citizens, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia will have taken an overwhelming financial toll on the United States and other countries around the world, according to Dr. Eric Reiman. Read More

Veteran entrepreneur named to direct Discovery to Product initiative at UW–Madison

March 11, 2014

John Biondi, a Wisconsin entrepreneur with extensive experience in early-stage high-technology companies in the state, has been named the first director of Discovery to Product (D2P), a new UW–Madison project to accelerate the formation of businesses based on discoveries at the Madison campus. Read More

Excess nitrogen in water prompts March 28 summit

March 6, 2014

Concern about excess nitrogen getting into the state's waterways and drinking water is the impetus for a Nitrogen Science Summit March 28 on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. Read More

Jerlando F. L. Jackson: Driven for diversity

March 6, 2014

The son of a drill sergeant in Fort Benning, Ga., Jerlando F. L. Jackson quickly learned the value of structure and organization. But there, in a rural area of the Deep South, deeper lessons about inclusion and diversity took root. Read More

Campus financial management discussion kicks off

March 6, 2014

The University of Wisconsin­–Madison is building on the success of a recent forum to engage the campus community in a discussion about effective financial management practices and internal controls. Read More

Wisconsin Dance Marathon: Standing for those who can’t

March 5, 2014

University of Wisconsin students and members of the Madison community will put on their dancing shoes on Mar. 8 to raise money for American Family Children's Hospital. Read More

Baby sea turtles spend ‘lost years’ in warm blankets of seaweed

March 4, 2014

Nosing their way out of eggs buried in sandy beaches from Florida’s east coast north into the Carolinas, baby loggerhead sea turtles race to the water as fast as their flippers will carry them and begin a swim frenzy to clear the predator-rich shore. Read More

Business services helps employees ‘GET’ reimbursed

March 4, 2014

The new Guided Expense Tool (GET) for expense reimbursement submission is now available to all of campus. GET will become the primary campus tool for submitting expense reports during the course of the year. Read More

Stem cell advance yields mature heart muscle cells

March 3, 2014

A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers has induced human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to differentiate toward pure-population, mature heart muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes. Read More

Sardis dig yields enigmatic trove: ritual egg in a pot

March 3, 2014

Sardis has given up another treasure in the form of two enigmatic ritual deposits, which are proving more difficult to fathom than the coins for which the city was famous. Read More

Actress Rosario Dawson to keynote Nelson Institute conference in April

February 28, 2014

Actress and activist Rosario Dawson, cofounder and chair of the voting rights organization Voto Latino and an international advocate for women's rights and environmental quality, will keynote the eighth annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference on Tuesday, April 22 in Madison. Read More

Madison Reads Leopold set for Saturday at UW Arboretum

February 27, 2014

The UW Arboretum's ninth annual Madison Reads Leopold event anchors the celebration of Aldo Leopold Weekend in the Madison area with a mix of citizen and celebrity readers giving voice to Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac." Read More

Famed Milwaukee County Zoo orangutan’s death caused by strange infection

February 27, 2014

Mahal, the young orangutan who became a star of the Milwaukee County Zoo and an emblem of survival for a dwindling species, led an extraordinary life. It turns out, the young ape died an extraordinary death, too. Read More