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Virtually healthy: ‘CAVE’ lets researchers experience patients’ behavior
Every day, patients take prescription medications, monitor vital signs or blood glucose levels, and even administer their own preventative care in the form of exercise and diet choices. It’s important for health care providers to understand how their patients actually perform these activities — yet do so without invading patients' privacy. Virtual reality makes that goal a reality. Read More
Documentary celebrates Odyssey Project’s 10-year journey
On its 10th anniversary, the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Odyssey Project has much to celebrate. Journeys from homelessness to graduate school, or incarceration to meaningful employment, are two of more than 250 success stories. Read More
Award helps turn first manuscripts into first-rate books
A scholar of "medieval media studies" and a historian of modern Europe have each won a 2012-13 First Book Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for the Humanities. Read More
Researchers trying to get computers to see as humans do
How could a few pictures of a dog in the grass illustrate key concepts underlying computer vision, a sophisticated science aimed at teaching machines to perform visual tasks for humans - such as recognizing faces, objects and patterns? Read More
Five faculty members honored as AAAS fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has added five members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty to its rolls as elected fellows. Read More
Scientists create road map to metabolic reprogramming for aging
In efforts to understand what influences life span, cancer and aging, scientists are building road maps to navigate and learn about cells at the molecular level. Read More
Class explores worldwide picture for AIDS, HIV
"This is an important time in HIV research," Matt Reynolds, an HIV researcher at University of Wisconsin–Madison, tells an undergraduate class on the Monday morning after Thanksgiving. Read More
Two students to receive groundbreaking hip-hop scholarship
The Hip Hop Sisters Network announced Miona Short of Chicago and Hiwot Adilow of Philadelphia as the first recipients of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s First Wave/MC Lyte Scholarship. Read More
UW–Madison Preferred products now available for purchase
Purchasing Services, with the support of an Administrative Excellence team, announced that several UW–Madison Preferred products, including common office supplies such as pens, writing pads, copy paper and remanufactured ink and toner, are now available for purchase. Read More
Campus plans migration to new email and calendar system
A campuswide team working to employ a single email and calendar software supplier for the campus has completed critical steps toward implementing Microsoft Office 365. Read More
Talk examines American Indian agriculture and food systems
American Indian tribes have plenty of challenges when it comes to food and food systems, says Dan Cornelius, ranging from environmental threats to traditional crops to the difficulties of getting fresh food to remote tribal communities. Read More
Meditation expertise changes experience of pain
Meditation can change the way a person experiences pain, according to a new study by UW–Madison neuroscientists. Read More
Worldwide Universities Network hosts ‘Ideas and Universities’ virtual seminar series
The Ideas and Universities Project of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is sponsoring a virtual seminar series that brings together leading higher education scholars from around the world to consider the roles of universities in the global knowledge economy and the evolving identity of university teacher-researchers and their changing roles in institutions of higher learning. Read More
Martin takes over as director of the Center for the First-Year Experience
On Dec. 1, Carren Martin starts her new role as director of the Center for the First-Year Experience after serving as interim co-director for the past year. Read More
Cross-campus center for bioscience students being developed
The Institute for Biology Education and Steenbock Library have launched a joint Educational Innovation project to create a biology community and learning center for bioscience students across campus. Read More