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Grant funds nursing research into improving patient care
The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded two grants totaling $2.8 million to the School of Nursing to develop interventions designed to improve patient health. Read More
Songs help Indian women solve real-world problems
Songs help Indian women solve real-world problems Read More
Biologist to speak in zoology lecture series on Oct. 7
Among the many bizarre evolutionary patterns of the animal kingdom is the curious diversity of male “horns” in different species of the dung beetle. Read More
Roundtable plans fall speaker events
University Roundtable begins its fall schedule on Wednesday, Oct. 19, with Gary Sandefur, dean of the College of Letters and Science. He’ll talk about “The Beat Goes On: Maintaining the Healthy Heart of a Great University.†Read More
Homecoming: W marks the spot
Homecoming 2005 sets sail on Friday afternoon, Oct. 14, when 128 students will compete in the EA Sports NCAA Football Challenge from noon-4 p.m. in the Memorial Union parking lot. It’s billed as “the ultimate college video game tournament.” Sixteen universities across the nation are participating, and the champion from each campus will be flown to New York to compete for the title of national champion. Read More
UW-Madison historian aims to broaden perceptions of American West
“I wish I’d been a fly on the wall instead of a first-grader,” says Susan L. Johnson, the Women’s Studies Research Center Fellow for… Read More
MacBeth takes Kabuki turn in student production
A Kabuki version of “MacBeth” frames the Shakespearean tragedy in traditional Japanese theater. Read More
Writer’s Choice
On the verge of earning her master’s degree in library and information studies, Gay Strandemo has developed an acute appreciation of the proper care of library books. Read More
‘Community’ encourages contribution to inclusive campus
A unique problem about crises is that they often hold valuable lessons. “I asked myself what kinds of things create community and I came up with a sad answer. Crisis creates community,”says Bernice Durand, associate vice chancellor for diversity and climate. “How do we generate and sustain that bonding, which grows out of the thought, empathy and generosity of a crisis?”Durand posed this query among many other questions to faculty, staff and students last week at the Multicultural Campus Forum on Creating Community held at the Memorial Union. Read More
Book Smart
Fall 1991 found Francine Hirsch entering the Ph.D. program in history at Princeton, just as unprecedented change was unfolding in the former Soviet Union. Read More
Counseling psychology honored for minority achievement
The Department of Counseling Psychology in the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education has received the 2005 Suinn Minority Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) in recognition of the department's exemplary recruitment, retention and graduation of racial and ethnic minority students. Read More
Partners in Giving campaign begins Oct. 10
University, UW Hospital and Clinics, and state government employees in Dane County can support any of more than 400 charities by contributing to this fall’s Partners in Giving campaign, which begins Monday, Oct. 10 and ends Wednesday, Nov. 30. Read More
Gladfelter awards honor government efficiency ideas
The innovative ideas of public workers who help make their agencies run more smoothly and efficiently can win $500 awards in a competition administered by the UW–Madison department of political science. Read More
New battery technology helps stimulate nerves
With the help of new silicon-based compounds, scientists - and patients - are getting a significant new charge out of the tiny lithium batteries used in implantable devices to help treat nervous system and other disorders. Read More
WiCell receives $16 million NIH grant to create national stem cell bank
The WiCell Research Institute has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the federal government's first and only National Stem Cell Bank (NSCB), it was announced today at a news conference in Madison. Read More
Night time is the right time for art
Hot glass, fake grass and combat class will come together for a night of eclectic, artistic adventure at UW–Madison's "Arts Night Out!" on Saturday, Oct. 8. Artists, performers and organizations from across campus invite people to experience the arts, from traditional to cutting edge, and at no charge. Read More
Finding rewrites the evolutionary history of the origin of potatoes
Humans have cultivated potatoes for millennia, but there has been great controversy about the ubiquitous vegetable's origins. This week, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, a team led by a USDA potato taxonomist stationed at UW–Madison has for the first time demonstrated a single origin in southern Peru for the cultivated potato. Read More
Scientist uses form to explain building blocks of life
UW-Madison biochemists have developed an approach that allows them to measure with unprecedented accuracy the strengths of hydrogen bonds in a protein. The scientists were then able to predict the function of different versions of the protein based on structural information, a novel outcome that was published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read More
Nanoscale research receives big boost
The National Science Foundation has awarded the UW–Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) nearly $14.8 million over the next six years to continue its leading-edge research on the interfaces of materials at the nanoscale. Read More