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Study: Political ad time trumps election coverage on the tube
November 21, 2006In the month leading up to the 2006 mid-term elections, local television news viewers got considerably more information about campaigns from paid political advertisements than from news coverage, a new University of Wisconsin–Madison study shows. Read More
UW-Madison researchers develop novel method to find new antibiotics
November 20, 2006A University of Wisconsin–Madison bacteriologist plans to search for new antibiotics that render virulent bacteria harmless without killing them. Read More
Lakeshore Nature Preserve comes to life online
November 20, 2006A digital trove brimming with cutting-edge maps, evocative photos, ecological information and the rich history of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Lakeshore Nature Preserve has been assembled on a Web site that debuted today. Read More
Energy Institute engages stakeholders in creative solutions
November 16, 2006The new University of Wisconsin–Madison Energy Institute is leveraging several renowned UW–Madison energy education and research programs in its unique, multidisciplinary approach to understanding and addressing key global energy issues. Read More
Who wants to be a millionaire? Zach Harrison, that’s who
November 15, 2006Zachary Harrison, a University of Wisconsin–Madison junior from New York City, has been selected as one of 11 students nationwide to appear on a special College Week edition of the TV game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" later this month. Read More
Scientists find mutations that let bird flu adapt to humans
November 15, 2006By comparing influenza viruses found in birds with those of the avian virus that have also infected human hosts, researchers have identified key genetic changes required for pandemic strains of bird flu. Read More
Conference links university, Latino community
November 14, 2006The Steering Committee of the Latina/o Faculty Staff Association (LAFSA) will host a conference, "Connecting Resources: the Latino/a community and UW–Madison," on Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Memorial Union. Read More
Chancellor’s message to campus regarding the marriage amendment
November 13, 2006Before the Nov. 7 election, there was considerable unease on campus about the implications of the state marriage amendment. Questions concerned not only issues of fairness and tolerance, but potential impact on benefits currently afforded to domestic partners. Read More
Marriage amendment listening session scheduled
November 13, 2006A listening session will be held from 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15 in the Main Lounge of Memorial Union to give campus community members an opportunity to voice feelings related to the recently-passed marriage amendment and discuss the implications for domestic partner benefits. Read More
Veterinary medicine student establishes animal rescue organization
November 2, 2006In her spare time, Tracey Hageny, a fourth-year veterinary medical student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, rescues animals. She recently attained federal nonprofit status for an animal rescue group she started several years ago. Read More
PAVE trains students in sexual assault awareness
November 1, 2006When Jenny Hansen's friend told her the story of an unwanted sexual experience, she didn't call it rape, saying, "I shouldn't have drank so much." Hansen repeatedly tried to explain to her friend that the incident wasn't her fault. But no matter what Hansen said, her friend just kept blaming herself. At that moment, Hansen decided join the fight against sexual assault. She went through Promoting Awareness and Victim Empowerment (PAVE) training and became a PAVE facilitator. Read More
UW historian helps PBS paint vivid picture of the California Gold Rush
November 1, 2006As an historian, Susan Lee Johnson finds few subjects of American history more irresistible than the California Gold Rush, a movement that unfolded so fast and furiously that it must seem like watching history get shot from a cannon. Read More
Web’s ‘youth appeal’ lost on campaigns
October 31, 2006While millions of young people use the Internet to build expansive social networks, most political campaigns never manage to take the training wheels off the technology, using it mainly for tightly controlled, one-way communication. Communication professor Michael Xenos is studying the disconnect between new media and old politics. Read More
Study: BadgerCare expands health care coverage for low-income families
October 30, 2006Wisconsin's BadgerCare program is expanding health insurance coverage for families who have left welfare, says a just-published paper by scholars from the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Door to college readiness opens with technology academy
October 25, 2006The UW–Madison Information Technology Academy has been one of the university's more novel — and successful — approaches to improving undergraduate diversity and providing greater opportunity to students who are underserved throughout higher education, and especially in the sciences. Read More
University Committee statement on marriage amendment
October 25, 2006The proposed constitutional amendment to restrict the legal status of people in relationships other than traditional marriages will harm the intellectual capacity of both the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the state of Wisconsin. Read More
Institute for Research on Poverty marks 40 years of innovative work
October 24, 2006The University of Wisconsin–Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty — the nation's first poverty research center — next month marks 40 years of studying why Americans live in poverty and what can be done to end it. Read More
Scientists find key to immune system’s ability to remember
October 23, 2006A team of researchers led by a University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher have identified the role of a protein that is important in stimulating the cells of the immune system, whose role is to take quick and effective action when agents of disease reinvade the body. Read More
MacArthur Foundation provides $3 million to digital learning innovations
October 19, 2006An education research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will play a significant role in a new $50 million MacArthur Foundation project investigating digital media and its impact on youth culture, learning and literacy. Read More
Legal scholar Gordon Brewster Baldwin dies in Italy
October 16, 2006Gordon Brewster Baldwin, a distinguished constitutional and foreign relations law scholar at the University of Wisconsin Law School, died in his sleep this past weekend after attending an opera in Italy with his wife, Helen. Read More