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Nursing heeds the call for psychiatric health care
Recently, the Pentagon reported 349 military suicides in 2012 — outnumbering the 295 American soldiers who died in 2012 in Afghanistan — and warned of a worsening trend as more soldiers return stateside and transition back to their families and communities. The sobering statistics, advocates say, drive home the need for yet a stronger commitment to accessible community-based mental health services.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ward update to governance groups on Palermo’s Pizza issue
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.
America’s partisan divide: not as simple as it seems
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?
Stunning works featured in staff art gallery
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.
HR Design team working to convert framework into action
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.
Warming ‘seesaw’ turns extra sunlight into global greenhouse
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.
Artist in residence explores black cultural identity
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.