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Center for the Humanities begins project exploring Don Quixote
The Center for the Humanities is preparing to begin one of its most ambitious projects to date: Don Quixote in Wisconsin.
UW Cancer Center forms new partnership in Fox River Valley
An affiliation among Wisconsin’s only comprehensive cancer center and two of the Fox Cities’ leading hospitals will offer a new level of care to the area’s cancer patients.
UW-Madison Sources for Continued Hurricane Coverage
With the death toll estimated in the thousands and New Orleans in a state of emergency, Hurricane Katrina's devastation will continue to have an enormous impact on the Deep South and the nation. The University of Wisconsin–Madison has experts who can offer useful perspectives to media on health, economic, psychological and rebuilding issues.
Giant optical telescope in South Africa comes online
Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountaintop near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronomers today released the first images captured by the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), now the equal of the world's largest optical telescope and a prized window to the night skies of the southern hemisphere.
A single gene controls a key difference between maize and its wild ancestor
One of the greatest agricultural and evolutionary puzzles is the origin of maize - and part of the answer may lie in a plot of corn on the western edge of Madison, where a hybrid crop gives new life to ancient genetic material. A UW–Madison genetics team has demonstrated that a single gene, called tga1, controls kernel casing in maize — evidence that modest alterations in single genes can cause dramatic changes in the way traits are expressed.
The World’s Tiniest Badger?
A team of chemistry researchers at UW–Madison has put a new twist on an old philosophical riddle: How many Bucky Badger mascots can you fit on the head of a pin? The answer: 9,000, with a little help from nanotechnology.
Study: Brain structures contribute to asthma attack severity
The mere mention of a stressful word like "wheeze" can activate two brain regions in asthmatics during an attack, and this brain activity may be associated with more severe asthma symptoms, according to a study by UW–Madison researchers and collaborators.
Scientist wins major grant to study immune cells
An immunologist at UW–Madison is one of 15 U.S. researchers this summer who were named 2005 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. Jenny Gumperz, an assistant professor of medical microbiology and immunology, will receive $60,000 per year for the next four years from the Pew Charitable Trusts, an independent nonprofit organization that annually funds innovative research projects in the fields of science and technology.
Gender hormones may lend to social disorder therapies
Researchers at UW–Madison have made the surprising finding that estrogen-and even dopamine, a neurotransmitter-also play critical roles in the development of aggressive social play behaviors. The work may one day help diagnose new autism cases and potentially pave the way for new hormone-based therapeutic approaches that counteract the social difficulties of autism.
‘World Beyond Our Borders’ series features faculty books
UW-Madison's International Institute and Borders Books announce the fall 2005 series of the partners' popular faculty book series, "World Beyond Our Borders." The series, which began in 2003, has presented more than 20 UW–Madison faculty authors, features readings and discussions on international subjects.
Red Carpet back for second season
After a successful inaugural campaign, UW–Madison will be "Rolling Out the Red Carpet" for a second time. The award-winning partnership between University Communications and the Athletic Department was designed to help create a fan-friendly environment at all UW Athletics events.
For the Record
Wisconsin Idea Endowment call for proposals The Office of the Provost is soliciting proposals from faculty, staff and students for the fourth annual…
UW dairy center helps with champion cheeses
Mike Gingrich’s Uplands Cheese Co. worked with the Center for Dairy Research at UW–Madison for advice on how to make their cheese and operate a cheese-making business.
Despite gains, women still face bias in science careers
Despite gains in the training of women scientists and the implementation of programs to help women overcome ingrained barriers, the career path of most women scientists at universities remains a difficult trek, fraught with roadblocks of bias, a sometimes chilly campus climate and the challenge of balancing family and work.
Africans in India reveal their histories in quilts
Madison will get a sampling of Siddi quilts in an exhibition in the Gallery of Design at the School of Human Ecology. "Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans of India" will feature about eight large quilts and a dozen crib-sized quilts, all done by members of the Siddi Women's Quilting Cooperative, which professor of art history Hnery Drewal founded in 2004.
Galactic survey reveals a new look for the Milky Way
With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, University of Wisconsin astronomers have conducted the most comprehensive structural analysis of our galaxy and have found tantalizing new evidence that the Milky Way is much different from your ordinary spiral galaxy.
Polymer bandages may give new life to old bridges
Long polymer "bandages," designed so that troops could quickly repair or reinforce bridges to bear the weight of 113-ton military tank transport vehicles, now could be used to quickly and inexpensively strengthen aging rural bridges and concrete culverts around the country.
New treatment may curb IV-based infections
Inserted through the skin and into a vein, long-term intravascular devices such as IV catheters deliver to patients a range of life-saving medications, nutrition and fluids, among other uses. But these life-saving devices also can provide a furtive pipeline for germs from the external world to gain access to the bloodstream of patients. A new finding at UW–Madison may help solve this medical conundrum.
$3.4 million directed to key MS study
In an effort to develop new techniques to repair and protect the nervous system in multiple sclerosis patients, including the use of human stem cells, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has awarded $3.4 million to a team of UW–Madison scientists.
UW-Madison in drivers’ seat of national transportation center
With $16 million in funding over five years from the U.S. Department of Transportation, UW–Madison transportation engineers will drive their research, education and technology-transfer efforts to the national level. President Bush will sign the "Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Act: A Legacy for Users" Wednesday in Aurora, Ill. The bill designates UW–Madison as one of 10 National University Transportation Centers charged with advancing research on critical national transportation issues and expanding the workforce of transportation professionals.