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Study: Put a price tag on environmental services
October 13, 2006The pressing issues of an increasingly strained global environment require a broad societal response - including the systematic assignment of monetary value to the services nature provides such as water purification and climate regulation, according to an assessment of the findings of a study of the health of the world's ecosystems. Read More
UW-Madison joins massive Google Book project
October 12, 2006The University of Wisconsin–Madison and Google announced an agreement today to expand access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical books and documents from more than 7.2 million holdings at the UW–Madison Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. Read More
UW-Madison attracts Wisconsin’s top students
October 12, 2006The University of Wisconsin–Madison has scored a major in-state recruiting coup, attracting the state's largest number of 2006 Wisconsin All-State Scholars. Read More
Study: Dust may dampen hurricane fury
October 10, 2006Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have put forward an intriguing theory that introduces a whole new dimension to the debate on what might be causing stronger and more frequent storms. Read More
Initiative fosters teacher training in less commonly taught languages
October 6, 2006The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison Language Institute and the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages a three-year, $345,000 grant to launch the National Online Less Commonly Taught Languages Teacher Training Initiative. Read More
New federal program targets global poverty
October 6, 2006A University of Wisconsin–Madison professor will oversee a new $10 million federal program that will support a wide range of projects aimed at understanding and curbing poverty in developing nations. Read More
New drug blocks influenza, including bird flu virus
October 4, 2006Opening a new front in the war against flu, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have reported the discovery of a novel compound that confers broad protection against influenza viruses, including deadly avian influenza. Read More
Chancellor approves campus LTE reform plan
October 3, 2006The University of Wisconsin–Madison has adopted a detailed, multi-year plan that will reshape its use of Limited Term Employees (LTEs), Chancellor John D. Wiley announced Tuesday. Read More
‘Failed’ experiment produces a bacterial Trojan horse
October 3, 2006A failed experiment turned out to be anything but for bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz. As he was puzzling out why what should have been a routine procedure wouldn't work, he made a discovery that led to the creation of a new biological tool for destroying bacterial pathogens - one that doesn't appear to trigger antibiotic resistance. Read More
Joseph Kauffman, master administrator and Peace Corps pioneer, dies
September 29, 2006Joseph F. Kauffman, emeritus professor of educational leadership at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, master administrator, one of the architects of the Peace Corps, and Dean of Student Affairs at UW–Madison during the turbulent student demonstrations of the 1960s, died today after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 84. Read More
New angiogenesis finding may help fight cancer growth
September 28, 2006A researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has discovered a new part of the complicated mechanism that governs the formation of blood vessels, or angiogenesis. Read More
Computer scientist spearheads $30 million ‘Open Science Grid’
September 25, 2006University of Wisconsin–Madison computer scientists will play a central role in the expansion of a national "Open Science Grid" (OSG), an interconnected computing infrastructure that provides scientists with a massive infusion of computing power and storage capacity to solve large, data-intensive challenges in science. Read More
Most widely used organic pesticide requires help to kill
September 25, 2006The world's most widely used organic insecticide, a plucky bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt for short, requires the assistance of other microbes to perform its insect-slaying work, a new University of Wisconsin–Madison study has found. Read More
Technology helps foster ‘democratization of cartography’
September 20, 2006Mark Harrower recalls a raging debate in his field in the 1970s, when some geographers worried that commercial map-making software would trigger the demise of cartography. But rather than sully the field, Harrower says the new technology — combined with the explosion of availability of geospatial information — is fueling one of the most exciting eras in his profession. Read More
Architects chosen to design Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
September 20, 2006Uihlein Wilson Architects of Milwaukee, together with Ballinger of Philadelphia, will design the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Morgridge Institute for Research on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, officials announced today. Read More
School of Business to partner with CFA Institute
September 11, 2006The highly regarded Applied Security Analysis Program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business was named a CFA Program Partner by the CFA Institute. Read More
Computing security grows on UW–Madison students
September 6, 2006When it comes to safe computing practices, students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison need some improvement. Read More
Wisconsin students have new way to learn to be leaders
September 6, 2006Undergraduate business and engineering students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who aim to be leaders in their careers and communities now have a new way to reach that goal. Read More
Anticipation plays a powerful role in human memory
September 5, 2006Psychologists have long known that memories of disturbing emotional events — such as an act of violence or the unexpected death of a loved one — are more vivid and deeply imprinted in the brain than mundane recollections of everyday matters. Probing deeper into how such memories form, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found that the mere anticipation of a fearful situation can fire up two memory-forming regions of the brain — even before the event has occurred. Read More
Astronomers provide fresh peek at nearby galaxy
August 31, 2006An international team of astronomers, including scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has created two striking images of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy nestled right next to the Milky Way. Read More