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Third World bears brunt of global warming impacts
November 16, 2005A team of health and climate scientists at UW–Madison and the World Health Organization report in the journal Nature that the growing health impacts of climate change affect different regions in markedly different ways. Ironically, the places that have contributed the least to warming the Earth are the most vulnerable to the death and disease higher temperatures can bring. Read More
Historian takes on a weighty task: Understanding Kissinger
November 15, 2005UW-Madison historian Jeremi Suri is working on the definitive biography of one of the world's most polarizing figures - tentatively titled "Henry Kissinger and the American Century" - based on nearly a dozen sit-down interviews with the globe-hopping former secretary of state. Read More
Lightfoot receives National Medal of Science
November 15, 2005President George W. Bush has named a UW–Madison professor of chemical and biological engineering as one of eight recipients of the 2004 National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor for science and technology. Read More
Thanks, Barry: University honors retiring coach with ceremony, praise
November 14, 2005On "Barry Alvarez Day," it was only fitting that the fans' chants of "Barry, Barry," which began at the football game at Camp Randall earlier in the day, extended across campus to the hockey game at the Kohl Center that night. The fans' chants acknowledged UW's head football coach of 16 years, who coached the final home game of his career on Nov. 12. Read More
3M and 3M Foundation give $1.6 million to engineering building project
November 14, 20053M Community Giving, the charitable arm of 3M, has announced a $1.6 million gift toward the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Building Project at the UW–Madison. Read More
UW-Madison students studying abroad in greater numbers
November 14, 2005UW-Madison students continue to study abroad in record numbers, according to figures released by the UW–Madison Division of International Studies. Read More
November brings a grab-bag of Top 10 rankings to UW–Madison
November 14, 2005A trio of early-November academic rankings placed UW–Madison in good company among national universities. Rankings of agricultural research, international grants and workplace quality all gave the university Top 10 marks. Read More
Saturday: Barry Alvarez Day
November 11, 2005Governor Jim Doyle has declared Saturday, Nov. 12, 'Barry Alvarez Day' in the state of Wisconsin. Read More
Computer model recreates storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald
November 10, 2005On Nov. 10, 1975, Lake Superior swallowed the Edmund Fitzgerald, along with her 29 crew members and cargo of almost 26,000 tons of ore. The wreck evolved into a Midwestern legend. Thirty years later, researchers at UW–Madison have built a simulation of the storm using the latest forecast technology. Read More
Bridge reinforcement system tapped for technology award
November 9, 2005A group of UW–Madison civil engineers has received a Popular Science magazine "Best of What's New" award in engineering for a unique technology that may lengthen life of bridges without raising construction costs. Read More
Stunden to retire as UW–Madison’s top technology chief
November 9, 2005Ann Stunden, chief information officer and director of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) at UW–Madison, has announced plans to retire in summer 2006 after six years at the helm of campus technology. Read More
Women’s soccer earns spot in NCAA Tournament
November 8, 2005The Wisconsin women's soccer team (13-8-2) is headed to Milwaukee for the first and second rounds of the 2005 NCAA Tournament, the NCAA women's soccer selection committee announced Monday. The Badgers will face off against Marquette in the first round Friday, Nov. 11. The Golden Eagles earned the No. 4 seed in the bracket. Read More
McGovern to deliver Kastenmeier Lecture, examine Iraq war
November 8, 2005Former U.S. Sen. George McGovern will discuss "The Iraq War: Lessons from the Past," in the UW Law School's Robert W. Kastenmeier Lecture on Monday, Nov. 14. Read More
Jahn chosen to lead College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
November 8, 2005Molly Jahn, a Cornell University expert in plant breeding, gene discovery and genetic mapping of agricultural plants, has been named the new dean of the UW–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Chancellor John D. Wiley announced today. Read More
Students get Hollywood lesson in screenwriting
November 3, 2005James G. Hirsch, one of Hollywood’s most successful writer-producers, is following in the footsteps of a former professor this semester. He is commuting from Los Angeles to Madison to teach a screenwriting course for seniors and graduate students in the Department of Communication Arts. Read More
John Lennon the visual artist in exhibition at Red Gym
November 2, 2005Some people may be surprised to learn that John Lennon, in addition to his mesmerizing music, also was quite a respectable visual artist. The Lennon estate and his widow Yoko Ono will bring a sampler of Lennon's drawings and paintings to the UW–Madison campus from Friday, Nov. 4 through Sunday, Nov. 6. Read More
Wisconsin Weather Stories wins prize from American Folklore Society
November 1, 2005The American Folklore Society has awarded the 2005 Dorothy Howard Folklore and Education Prize to Wisconsin Weather Stories, a UW–Madison project that explores weather concepts through personal narratives. Read More
Halloween surprise: The Great Galactic Black Widow
October 31, 2005Unsuspecting prey be warned! Hiding in the darkest corner of the constellation Circinus is a gigantic black widow spider waiting for its next meal. Read More
Scientists report a new method to speed bird flu vaccine production
October 31, 2005In the event of an influenza pandemic, the world's vaccine manufacturers will be in a race against time to forestall calamity. But now, thanks to a new technique to more efficiently produce the disarmed viruses that are the seed stock for making flu vaccine in large quantities, life-saving inoculations may be available more readily than before. The work is especially important as governments worldwide prepare for a predicted pandemic of avian influenza. Read More
Project may aid milk shortage in the developing world
October 28, 2005A UW–Madison researcher is building on one of Wisconsin's great strengths to address a major nutrition issue in the developing world: the scarcity of milk. Read More