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Students participate in summer session for Badger Volunteers

July 16, 2012

For the second year in a row, the Morgridge Center for Public Service has offered a summer session of its Badger Volunteers Program. During the regular academic year, nearly 500 UW–Madison students participate in Badger Volunteers each semester. The summer session operates on a much smaller scale with just 27 registered volunteers. It is 10 weeks long, from mid-June to mid-August. Read More

Heat wave: Rec Sports closes facilities

July 16, 2012

Temperatures in Madison are expected to soar over 100 degrees yet again. Read More

UW asks court to clarify whether adidas violated terms of contract

July 13, 2012

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is asking a court to decide whether adidas has met the terms of its contract with UW–Madison and the Labor Code of Conduct. Read More

Americans’ information needs not being met, study finds

July 11, 2012

Americans' lives are still grounded in the communities where they live and require a set of basic information to navigate daily life, despite the proliferation of technology that seems to shrink the world by the hour. Read More

First Wave students take part in Britain’s Cultural Olympiad

July 10, 2012

Before the torch enters the stadium for the 2012 summer Olympics, UW–Madison's First Wave Touring Ensemble this week joined thousands of young people celebrating the Cultural Olympiad in London. Read More

New UW–Madison School of Human Ecology dean named

July 10, 2012

Soyeon Shim, a professor and director at the University of Arizona in Tucson, has been selected as the new dean of the School of Human Ecology (SoHE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More

Summer (music) in the city

July 10, 2012

Summer always brings flocks of visitors to campus. Each year, many participatory musical events have added a particularly tuneful note to all that UW–Madison has to offer, showcasing connections between the university and the wider world. Read More

Facebook use does not lead to depression, according to new study

July 9, 2012

A study of university students is the first evidence to refute the supposed link between depression and the amount of time spent on Facebook and other social-media sites. Read More

Translational research institute grant renewed with $41.5 million

July 8, 2012

Following a highly productive first five years, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) has received a coveted five-year renewal by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read More

Observatory Drive closure starts July 5

July 5, 2012

Observatory Drive will be closed between North Park Street and the entrance to Lot 10 at the Education Building for two weeks starting this Thursday, July 5. Read More

$3 million grant to train new scientists to collaborate on conservation challenges

July 5, 2012

A new type of forest is taking root in Puerto Rico's abandoned sugar cane fields. The new stands are full of invasive trees, but they harbor large numbers of endangered native bird species. From the perspective of conservation science, are these forest parcels good or bad? And how should they be managed? Read More

UW scientists play key role in discovery of a new particle consistent with Higgs boson

July 4, 2012

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aided by scientists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, have narrowed the search for the elusive Higgs boson, discovering a new particle with a mass in the region of 125 GeV. Read More

Social media helps doctoral candidate reach out on research

July 3, 2012

For researchers, describing complex science to folks outside their discipline can be a tricky or even unpleasant experience. Read More

Four UW–Madison students attending prestigious Nobel conference

July 2, 2012

Four UW–Madison students will meet with more than 30 Nobel laureates and 580 young researchers from around the world July 1-6 at the 62nd annual… Read More

War-related climate change would substantially reduce crop yields

July 2, 2012

Though worries about “nuclear winter” have faded since the end of the Cold War, existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons still hold the potential for devastating global impacts. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Rutgers University have found that the climate effects of a hypothetical nuclear war between India and Pakistan would greatly reduce yields of staple crops, even in distant countries. Read More

Student teams find winning recipe in national food competitions

June 29, 2012

The UW–Madison food science club has three new awards to add to its trophy case after spending this past week at the Institute for Food Technologists annual meeting in Las Vegas. The club fielded two teams in a Disney-sponsored collegiate food product development competition, and won first and second place for their innovative, healthy, kid-friendly products. Read More

Shelter cats benefit from vet’s long, close web of human relationships

June 27, 2012

Karen Moriello, a clinical professor at the UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, has earned a devoted following among people who care for cats in animal shelters. Read More

Greenland ice may exaggerate magnitude of 13,000-year-old deep freeze

June 25, 2012

Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a historical thermometer, adding temperature data to studies of the local conditions up to the Northern Hemisphere’s climate. But the method — comparing the ratio of oxygen isotopes buried as snow fell over millennia — may not be such a straightforward indicator of air temperature. Read More

Blood-brain barrier building blocks forged from human stem cells

June 25, 2012

The blood-brain barrier -- the filter that governs what can and cannot come into contact with the mammalian brain -- is a marvel of nature. It effectively separates circulating blood from the fluid that bathes the brain, and it keeps out bacteria, viruses and other agents that could damage it. Read More

UW community mourns business graduate Roelse

June 23, 2012

The University of Wisconsin–Madison community is mourning the loss of a young alumnus who is believed to have drowned in Lake Mendota early on Friday, June 22. Read More