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Weiden to serve as interim legal director

February 12, 2013

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

February 12, 2013

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

Video tool could help active workers avoid injury

February 11, 2013

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

February 11, 2013

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

Journalism students learn ethics through online case study

February 8, 2013

You're a college student working for a news service, and your editor asks you to check out a breaking-news situation. Read More

Darwin Day celebrates evolutionary diversity of sex and reproduction

February 7, 2013

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

Ward update to governance groups on Palermo’s Pizza issue

February 7, 2013

The following letter was sent on Thursday, Feb. 7 from Interim Chancellor David Ward to the University Committee, the Academic Staff Executive Committee, the Associated Students of Madison and the Labor Licensing Policy Committee. Read More

America’s partisan divide: not as simple as it seems

February 7, 2013

Is the United States a bitterly divided country, split along harsh partisan political lines, or are we a nation composed mostly of moderates trapped between the extremists yelling from either end of the ideological spectrum? Read More

Stunning works featured in staff art gallery

February 7, 2013

The Academic Staff Art Gallery in Bascom Hall this semester is featuring works that combine art and science, encompassing the scientific impact of models of invertebrates, glassblowing and photography. Read More

HR Design team working to convert framework into action

February 7, 2013

The HR Design project team is working with subject matter experts to convert the framework outlined in the HR Design Strategic Plan into draft policies, procedures and processes. These efforts will continue to include close collaboration with governance groups and campus stakeholders. Read More

Facebook users browse their own profiles to boost egos

February 6, 2013

Lousy day at work or a bad grade on an exam? New research suggests people feeling deflated seek solace in their Facebook profiles to puff themselves up. Read More

Warming ‘seesaw’ turns extra sunlight into global greenhouse

February 6, 2013

Earth's most recent shift to a warm climate began with intense summer sun in the Northern Hemisphere, the first pressure on a seesaw that tossed powerful forces between the planet's poles until greenhouse gases accelerated temperature change on a global scale. Read More

Artist in residence explores black cultural identity

February 6, 2013

Faisal Abdu’Allah, an internationally acclaimed British artist whose iconographic images of power, race, masculinity, violence, and faith challenge the values and ideologies society attaches to those images, is the The Arts Institute and the Department of Art History’s Spring 2013 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence. Read More

Finding challenges accepted view of MS: Unexpectedly, damaged nerve fibers survive

February 5, 2013

Multiple sclerosis, a brain disease that affects over 400,000 Americans, causes movement difficulties and many neurologic symptoms. MS has two key elements: The nerves that direct muscular movement lose their electrical insulation (the myelin sheath) and cannot transmit signals as effectively. And many of the long nerve fibers, called axons, degenerate. Read More

Weston Roundtable adds distinguished speakers on sustainable water, energy

February 5, 2013

A pair of leading figures in the field of sustainability - Jerry Schnoor of the University of Iowa and Dave Allen of the University of Texas at Austin - will speak at the University of Wisconsin–Madison this semester in two Weston Distinguished Lectures. Read More

High-level commission discusses future of graduate education in the chemical sciences

February 5, 2013

Members of an American Chemical Society commission will discuss the need for radical changes to graduate education in the chemical sciences at a colloquium in Madison Feb. 7. Read More