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They’re No. 1: Air Force ROTC leads nation in fitness
April 9, 2013While other students still slumber or are just getting their day started, the Air Force ROTC “Flying Badgers” have already worked up a sweat running laps at the Shell on campus. Read More
J.J. Watt thanks law students for support
April 9, 2013Almost three years ago, J.J. Watt turned to the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School for help setting up a nonprofit to fund after-school sports programs. Read More
Journalist, author McKenna to be Science Writer in Residence
April 8, 2013Independent journalist and author Maryn McKenna has been named the Spring 2013 UW–Madison Science Writer in Residence. Read More
UW Carbone Cancer Rearchers Named to Pediatric Cancer Dream Team
April 8, 2013Dr. Paul Sondel Madison, Wisconsin — A “dream team” of pediatric cancer researchers at the UW Carbone Cancer Center is among scientists at seven… Read More
UW film professor reflects on friendship with Ebert
April 5, 2013David Bordwell first met Roger Ebert, who died yesterday after a long battle with cancer, in 2000. Ebert invited him and his wife, film theorist Kristin Thompson, to dinner after Bordwell gave a speech in Chicago. Read More
DOE renews Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
April 4, 2013The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison $25 million per year to fund the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) for another five years. Read More
UW stem cell pioneer Thomson earns innovation award
April 4, 2013A prestigious scientific honor adds to the legacy of stem cell pioneer James Thomson. Read More
Thin clouds drove Greenland’s record-breaking 2012 ice melt
April 3, 2013If the sheet of ice covering Greenland were to melt in its entirety tomorrow, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. Read More
UW–Madison, UW–Extension and UW Colleges Day comes to the Capitol
April 3, 2013Engaging exhibits and special demonstrations will bring opportunities for learning and collaboration as part of UW–Madison, UW-Extension and UW Colleges Day at the State Capitol on Thursday, April 4. Read More
New program offers patient advocacy certificate online
April 2, 2013UW-Madison’s Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) had offered classroom courses in patient advocacy before but last fall, for the first time, began an online option for its certificate program. Development of the online Consumer Health Advocacy Certificate was funded in part through a Morgridge Match Grant. Read More
Ten winning pictures at the intersection of art and science
April 2, 2013Drawn from a record number of entries, 10 pictures at the intersection of art and science have been chosen as winners of the 2013 UW–Madison Cool Science Image contest. Read More
Mark Johnson honored with Anthony Shadid ethics award
April 1, 2013The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will honor Milwaukee Journal Sentinel health and science reporter Mark Johnson with the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, at the center's annual conference April 5, 2013. Read More
Update: Construction damage closes part of Park Street through April 16
March 29, 2013North Park Street is temporarily closed between Langdon Street and Observatory Drive due to construction activity that damaged an underground pipe. Read More
Friends of the Libraries Book Sale starts April 3
March 29, 2013The Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries Spring Book Sale, which organizers say is one of the largest used book sales in Wisconsin with more than 15,000 books to choose from, will be held Wednesday, April 3 through Saturday, April 6. Read More
Céline Cousteau to speak at Earth Day conference
March 28, 2013Marine conservation advocate and filmmaker Céline Cousteau will be a featured speaker at the seventh annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference on Monday, April 15. Read More
Jerry Marwell, expert on social movements, dies at 76
March 28, 2013Gerald Marwell, Richard T. Ely Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Sunday, March 24 in New York City. He was 76. Read More
Obesity policy strategies win national competition
March 26, 2013A team of five students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison La Follette School won first place for their strategies to combat childhood obesity in a national public affairs competition in Washington, D.C., March 22-23. Read More
Researchers discover the brain origins of variation in pathological anxiety
March 26, 2013New findings from nonhuman primates suggest that an overactive core circuit in the brain, and its interaction with other specialized circuits, accounts for the variability in symptoms shown by patients with severe anxiety. Read More
School of Veterinary Medicine, UW Veterinary Care to hold open house
March 25, 2013The UW School of Veterinary Medicine and UW Veterinary Care, the school's veterinary medical teaching hospital, will host an open house on Sunday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Read More
With 400th Ph.D. grad, UW–Madison celebrates a half century of fusion energy
March 25, 2013In the 1930s and '40s, many researchers studied ways to use fusion, the reaction in which atomic nuclei collide, fuse and release energy, to develop atomic weapons. Later, those same brilliant minds began to focus on beneficial applications of fusion, including developing plants that would produce electrical energy for society. Read More