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Cleaner, greener drug manufacturing
Nearly all pharmaceuticals are derived from crude oil and other simple chemical feedstocks through a series of complex, wasteful conversion steps.
University Theatre explores obsessions, love in comedy, tragedy
Class and politics, unhealthy obsessions and forbidden love are common themes explored in two productions being staged by University Theatre this semester.
Street markets are this professor’s laboratory
Alfonso Morales didn’t sit in a library to do research for his graduate degrees. Instead, he worked as a vendor in Chicago’s famed Maxwell Street Market, where he saw firsthand that public markets serve as fertile ground for entrepreneurs and new businesses, gathering places for communities and an entry point into the economy and society for new arrivals to the United States.
Middle East air-quality study bridges borders
An unprecedented effort to collect air pollution data in the Middle East has united researchers in a region mired in conflict.
Muscle mass maintenance under scrutiny
When muscles are not pressed into service, they begin to lose mass.
Collaboration to enhance patient safety during blood collection, transfusion
The National Institute of Health (NIH), Health and Human Services has awarded a $1.4 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant to SysLogic Inc., the UW RFID Laboratory and the BloodCenter of Wisconsin.
Curiosities: Is there a limit to how fast humans can be?
“In my opinion there are no limits,” says Tim Gattenby, a faculty associate in kinesiology at UW–Madison. “People said that no one could…
Recent sightings: Rainy day
Umbrella-toting pedestrians make their way through soggy autumn leaves and endless puddles on Library Mall on Oct. 23, 2009. Photo: Bryce Richter…
‘The Way of the Warrior’ examined in University Roundtable talk
The warrior tradition of Native Americans is the topic for the University Roundtable luncheon presentation scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.