Harnessing the power of bacteria August 23, 2006 Share Tags: business, research Editor’s picks New year, same Badger spirit Badgers are back! Campus has reawakened as students settle in for a new academic year. After the flood UW students apply classroom learning to support a Wisconsin community in healing. A new kidney — free of daily meds Thanks to a cutting-edge clinical trial at UW–Madison, transplant patients are returning to a healthy life without anti-rejection drugs. With first graduate, accelerated UW program aggressively takes on physician shortage in rural Wisconsin Shane Hoffman will become the first graduate of a UW School of Medicine and Public Health program that reduces the time it takes to train doctors interested in serving rural parts of the state.