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Internet Scout celebrates 10 years, eyes new project launch
October 26, 2005From less than 1 million to 600 billion pages-that's one measure of the World Wide Web's growth in the past 10 years. From the beginning, the Internet Scout Project has been on the job, providing better tools for finding, filtering and presenting online information. Internet Scout is currently celebrating its first decade on the Web. Read More
Project could reduce U.S. inventory of spent nuclear fuel
October 26, 2005Hoping to reduce the nation's growing inventory of stored spent nuclear fuel, UW–Madison will team with scientists and students from Big Ten universities, the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory to develop innovative nuclear fuel cycles that will recycle and dispose of this high-level radioactive material. Read More
UW-Madison establishes center for global health
October 24, 2005UW-Madison has established a Center for Global Health, a joint initiative of the UW schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, and the Division of International Studies. Read More
UW study shows deer in CWD zone stick to home
October 21, 2005White-tailed deer, it seems, are homebodies. That's the upshot of an intensive UW–Madison study of the traveling behaviors of 173 radio-collared white-tailed deer in south central Wisconsin — a study that has implications for managing chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer herds. Read More
Professor makes an impact in Sudan human rights
October 20, 2005Anthropology professor Sharon Hutchinson wants to expand the bubble that Americans live in. Read More
UW product licensing program produces financial-aid success stories
October 20, 2005UW-Madison's growing FASTrack program helps low-income Wisconsin undergraduates pay for college through grants, small loans and work. One key part of this program, called the "Bucky Grant," is funded exclusively through royalties from the sales of licensed Wisconsin Badger merchandise — everything from coffee mugs to 'W' sweatshirts. Read More
UW Hospital and Clinics named top academic hospital
October 19, 2005UW Hospital and Clinics has been named the top-performing academic hospital in the United States, based on a national benchmarking study by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), an alliance of the top academic health centers in the United States and their affiliated hospitals. Read More
Childhood hobby yields photo record of the 20th century
October 19, 2005Forty of Jacques Lartigue’s remarkable photographs will be on exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art beginning on Saturday, Oct. 22. Read More
Students combine courses, seminar with international internship
October 19, 2005Mr. (or Ms.) Smith goes to Washington? Well, perhaps not as a senator but certainly as a UW–Madison student enrolled in the Washington, D.C., "Semester in International Affairs." Read More
Students to manage $40 million for UW System
October 19, 2005Students in the Applied Security Analysis Program (ASAP) of the UW–Madison School of Business have been authorized to manage more than $40 million in fixed-income securities for the University of Wisconsin System. Read More
2005 freshman class includes 426 students ranked No. 1
October 18, 2005UW-Madison continually attracts freshman classes made up of talented scholars, athletes, musicians and activists. Of those, the incoming Class of 2009 is one of the most distinguished in the institution's history. Read More
Engineers help turn science into interactive exhibits
October 17, 2005As part of a new National Science Foundation-funded network, UW–Madison engineering faculty, staff and students will work with some of the nation's top science museums to create hands-on exhibits about technology so small that even the tiniest human fingers can't touch it. Read More
Flu virus reported to resist drug envisioned for pandemic
October 14, 2005An avian influenza virus isolated from an infected Vietnamese girl has been determined to be resistant to the drug oseltamivir, the compound better known by its trade name Tamiflu, and the drug officials hope will serve as the front line of defense for a feared influenza pandemic. Read More
Bill Gates surprises students as “stand in” professor
October 12, 2005Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates visited UW–Madison today (Wednesday, Oct. 12) as part of his 2005 College Tour, designed to promote greater youth involvement in technology careers. Read More
Longtime physics technician brings different views
October 11, 2005Peering through his glasses, 80-year-old Mike Murray carefully bends dozens of colorful resisters, capacitors and transistors into a credit-card sized circuit. Read More
‘Youth Speaks’ initiative will be foundation for next class of leaders
October 11, 2005UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley is announcing a new initiative to strengthen the links between the university's multicultural programming and community outreach. The initiative will enhance and complement other campus-based diversity activities under the umbrella of Plan 2008, but be distinctive in its programming and goals. Read More
University develops Web site for ‘creating community’
October 6, 2005UW-Madison’s sense of community and campus climate can be strengthened by a series of small acts, such as connections among individuals who may not otherwise have come together on this broad campus, says Chancellor John D. Wiley. Read More
Finding rhythm between academia, Cajun music
October 6, 2005Five years ago Cajun culture grabbed hold of Karen Holden. A professor of consumer science and public affairs and associate director of its La Follette School of Public Affairs, she is a nationally known expert on Social Security, pensions and their relationship to the timing of retirement. She also does a great deal of work on the financial well-being of widows. Somehow she also manages to find time to rehearse and perform with the Madison band Cajun Strangers. Read More
Early proteins may have sprouted under thirsty conditions
October 5, 2005The primordial soup cooked up by the University of Wisconsin–Madison's John Yin is a thin one indeed: Besides an amino acid, it contains just copper and chloride. Read More
Report: Growing deficits jeopardize U.S. influence around world
October 5, 2005The United States must confront the alarmingly high federal budget and current account deficits, according to a new report written for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York by Menzie Chinn, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of public affairs. Read More