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UW contributes to international fusion program
December 27, 2006University of Wisconsin–Madison Fusion Technology Institute (FTI) researchers are playing a key role in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a multinational project designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power. Read More
40 years ago, UW researcher changed our view of the world
December 26, 2006Forty years ago this month, thanks to an inventive University of Wisconsin–Madison scientist, our view of the world was changed forever. Read More
Stem cells used to create critical brain barrier in lab
December 20, 2006Using neural stem cells derived from the fetal brains of rats, a team of Wisconsin scientists has devised a rudimentary blood-brain barrier in the lab. Read More
Wisconsin scientists land major infectious disease awards
December 19, 2006The holidays have arrived early for two young University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members. Cancer researcher Robert Kalejta and chemist Helen Blackwell have learned that they are each the recipients of prestigious Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Awards from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Read More
Use common sense: Lock up before break
December 19, 2006UW-Madison students, faculty and staff can help prevent burglaries and thefts over the upcoming winter break by using common sense and taking basic security precautions. Read More
‘Kauffman Campus’ award will fuel campus, state entrepreneurship
December 14, 2006Gov. Jim Doyle and Chancellor John Wiley announced today that the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has named the University of Wisconsin–Madison one of its nine "Kauffman Campuses," and has received $5 million to help train students in the principles and practices of entrepreneurship and spur greater research commercialization statewide. Read More
UW-Madison achieves No. 1 exec education ranking
December 14, 2006Open-enrollment executive education programs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business have been rated best in the world for the second year in a row by The Economist Intelligence Unit. Read More
Study: Botulinum attacks like a ‘smart bomb’
December 13, 2006A pilot without a map can locate an airport by first finding a nearby landmark, like a big river, and then searching for the airport. New research from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and Scripps Research Institute shows how the astonishingly powerful botulinum toxin uses a similar strategy to latch onto nerve cells, the first step in inactivating them. Read More
Brain’s ‘fear center’ may underlie autistic behaviors
December 12, 2006The brain's emotional center is unusually small in autistic males with the most severe behavioral impairments, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers reported this month. Read More
The business credentials of language learning
December 12, 2006When Dianna Murphy, associate director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Language Institute, graduated with a degree in Russian in 1989, she had two career options: work in government or teach. This was the case for many language students at the time, Murphy says, but a lot has changed since then. Read More
Commitment launched for arts and humanities
December 7, 2006Students and programs in the arts and humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will benefit from an initiative - the first phase of a long-term commitment - announced Thursday by campus officials. Read More
Researchers clear way to stronger glass
December 7, 2006Look at your window - not out it, but at it. Though the window glass looks clear, if you could peer inside the pane you would see a surprising molecular mess, with tiny particles jumbled together any which way. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a new glass-making technique that eliminates some of that mess. Read More
Wisconsin Idea: A massive library at your fingertips
December 6, 2006A 15-year-old home-schooled boy … College students in Illinois … The nephew of Bangladesh’s president. The people on this list have a common trait: They are all Wisconsin Idea recipients, thanks to the Digital Collections Center. Read More
Brower named vice provost for teaching and learning
December 5, 2006Aaron Brower, a professor of social work and integrated liberal studies, and special assistant to the Dean of Students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been named the university's new vice provost for teaching and learning, Provost Patrick Farrell announced today. Read More
Historian, influential campus leader E. David Cronon dies at age 82
December 5, 2006E. David Cronon, an influential and revered former dean of the College of Letters and Sciences and history professor for more than four decades at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died early this morning (Dec. 5) after a brief illness. He was 82. Read More
Controlling confusion: Researchers make insight into memory, forgetting
December 4, 2006Why do we forget? Do memories decay on their own, or are they harmed by interference from similar memories? Using a technique called "transcranial magnetic stimulation," brain researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison may have found the answer. Read More
Office offers student-parents assistance in raising children
November 29, 2006The University of Wisconsin–Madison's Office of Child Care and Family Resources helps students adjust to parenthood with financial assistance and other support. Read More
UW-Madison launches student-wage review
November 29, 2006University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley will appoint a committee of students, faculty and staff to review and, if warranted, recommend market-based increases to student hourly wage scales. Read More
Business school offers new entrepreneurship option for undergrads
November 27, 2006Students aiming to become successful entrepreneurs have a new academic option at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The School of Business now offers students the opportunity to pursue a concentration in entrepreneurship within its undergraduate major in management and human resources. Read More
Kim Cridler: Divining art from metal
November 21, 2006To Kim Cridler, an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the emotional power of objects drives her work as an artist. Through her work in metalsmith arts, Cridler seeks to recreate the feelings that are engendered by those meaningful artifacts or our past. Read More