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UW-Madison accounting students win national tax competition again

February 2, 2007

For the third time in five years, a team of accounting students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business has won a national case competition.

Falling milk prices cause tough 2006 for Wisconsin farmers, report says

February 2, 2007

University of Wisconsin–Madison agricultural economists have released their Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report for 2006.

Undergraduate invention competitions slated for Feb 8-9

February 1, 2007

Ski bindings, a reclining wheelchair, digital window-front advertising, a page-turning machine and an online community are rarely found in the same context. But they and 15 other inventions, all conceived and built by University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduate students, will be the center of attention at the annual UW–Madison Innovation Days competitions, to be held Feb. 8-9 in the Mechanical Engineering Building on the College of Engineering campus.

Finding may unshackle the potential of composite materials

January 31, 2007

In an advance that could lead to composite materials with virtually limitless performance capabilities, a University of Wisconsin–Madison scientist has dispelled a 50-year-old theoretical notion that composite materials must be made only of "stable" individual materials to be stable overall.

McKenna selected to head veterinary diagnostic lab

January 31, 2007

Thomas McKenna, an animal disease expert with 12 years experience dealing with the implications of livestock diseases at the national and international level, has been chosen to head the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.

UW students become ambassadors to the world through AIESEC

January 30, 2007

In a time of constant reminders of the need to learn about developing countries and cooperate globally, members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison chapter of AIESEC — the largest student-based organization on the planet — have become ambassadors to the world.

WARF’s director named to national patent advisory committee

January 25, 2007

The leader of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has become the first person from a university patent management office to serve on a committee that helps guide the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

UW survey finds foreign investors favor U.S. and New York City real estate

January 24, 2007

The United States remains the preferred country for foreign investors' real estate dollars, according to a University of Wisconsin–Madison survey of global real estate investors released today.

Another accounting student named to internship

January 23, 2007

Josie Cizak, a graduate student in the Five-Year Professional Program in Accounting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business, has been awarded a postgraduate technical assistant internship at the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

UW-Madison college targets federal bioenergy initiative

January 23, 2007

The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is leading efforts to bring a new federal bioenergy research and development center to Wisconsin, the college's dean told a group of bioscience industry leaders today.

Bringing together Earth and sky imagery

January 9, 2007

Integrating studies of the Earth with those of the atmosphere and beyond, the Environmental Remote Sensing Center (ERSC) recently joined the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School.

A hot idea for insulating tiny batteries

January 9, 2007

Engineering physics researchers are devising a unique "blanket" that will enable them to squeeze as much electricity as possible from nuclear-powered batteries the size of a grain of coarse salt.

Wisconsin Idea: Cultivating the artisan cheese market

January 5, 2007

When someone mentions Babcock Hall, people immediately think "ice cream." But the campus dairy plant is starting to make a name with another signature product: award-winning cheese.

Record speed for thin-film transistors could open door for flexible electronics

January 4, 2007

A pair of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have developed a method of making flexible, thin-film transistors that are not only inexpensive to produce, but also capable of high speeds — even microwave frequency, impossible before now.

Barnacle busters: Tackling a shipping industry headache

December 28, 2006

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have devised a potentially ingenious solution to the multi-million dollar problem known as "biofouling," a chronic headache that has plagued the shipping world for centuries.

UW contributes to international fusion program

December 27, 2006

University of Wisconsin–Madison Fusion Technology Institute (FTI) researchers are playing a key role in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a multinational project designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power.

New math and science repository serves up the good stuff

December 19, 2006

Internet Scout, a 12-year-old University of Wisconsin–Madison online research project, is unveiling its new national math and science educational project this month called the Applied Math and Science Education Repository.

Wisconsin scientists land major infectious disease awards

December 19, 2006

The holidays have arrived early for two young University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members. Cancer researcher Robert Kalejta and chemist Helen Blackwell have learned that they are each the recipients of prestigious Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Awards from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

‘Kauffman Campus’ award will fuel campus, state entrepreneurship

December 14, 2006

Gov. Jim Doyle and Chancellor John Wiley announced today that the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has named the University of Wisconsin–Madison one of its nine "Kauffman Campuses," and has received $5 million to help train students in the principles and practices of entrepreneurship and spur greater research commercialization statewide.

UW-Madison achieves No. 1 exec education ranking

December 14, 2006

Open-enrollment executive education programs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business have been rated best in the world for the second year in a row by The Economist Intelligence Unit.