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Study: Perceived risk, personalities sway drinking habits
Undergraduate students who believe they have less control over post-drinking agonies such as hangovers and vomiting are more likely to over-drink than students who are able to resist martinis once they're already tipsy, according to psychologists at UW–Madison.
UW-Madison gains two new stem cell programs
Capitalizing on its across-the-board-strengths in stem cell research, UW–Madison will add two new stem cell programs to its portfolio.
Plant pathway may treat human disease
A newly discovered pathway by which cells protect themselves from a toxic byproduct of photosynthesis may hold important implications for bioenergy sources, human and plant disease, and agricultural yields, a team of UW–Madison bacteriologists announced Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Burgess endows ethics chair for journalism school
James Burgess, former publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal and executive vice president of Lee Enterprises, has made a $1 million gift to the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication to establish an endowed professorship in ethics.
Physicists plan quark conference
Physicists from around the world will gather at Madison's Monona Terrace from Wednesday, April 27-Sunday, May 1, to explore the world of quarks, subatomic particles that represent the frontier of modern particle physics.
Review of smoking treatment programs to recruit thousands across state
A new groundbreaking study on smoking and health being conducted in Madison and Milwaukee is recruiting 2,800 Wisconsin smokers for head-to-head comparisons of five smoking cessation treatments.
Bioethicists to ponder biotechnology and the brain
Researchers at UW–Madison will be featured among several experts gathering at the Fourth Annual International Bioethics Forum on Thursday and Friday, April 21 and 22, to discuss a range of ethical issues.
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The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics and Practical Spatial Arts in England, 1580-1630 (Oxford University Press, 2005-06) Henry Turner, assistant professor of…
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Symposium to examine globalization of higher education
The globalization of higher education and research has become a high-profile issue in the United States and Europe. Higher-education systems in the two regions are changing rapidly and, in the process, generating both enhanced linkages and heightened competition.
Ecologist plays critical role in first global ecosystem study
Up to 60 percent of "ecosystem services" that support life on earth, such as food, water and climate regulation, are crumbling at an unsustainable rate, members of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) project report here today (March 30)
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From Madison to Mongolia: The crusade for a giant fish
Biologist David Gilroy hopes this month to begin detecting signals from a legendary fish species, one that has captured the hearts of scores of anglers. The scientist is on the trail of the majestic taimen, the largest trout species in the world.