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Two speakers will visit campus to discuss equality, class, race, gender, and privilege. The lectures, together entitled “Unveiling Inequality,” are free and open to the public.

Dave Redell, a researcher in the wildlife ecology department, spends his summer nights ÷ just like Batman ÷ patrolling dark streets, parking lots and mine entrances in search of bats.

In the last decade, the idea that the health of individuals and populations is determined by a host of factors has steadily gained credibility among the academic and policy-making community. Thanks to a $4.6 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, UW-Madison scholars will have an excellent opportunity to study this concept further.

Jeremi Suri, an author and a UW-Madison assistant professor of history, specializes in the study of interactions between states, peoples and cultures, and the ways social movements can profoundly influence leaders and institutions.

To remain young at heart, eat less. That, in short, is the message drawn from research published Oct. 28 by a team of researchers from UW-Madison.

The UW Medical School hopes to learn why children who live in inner-city environments are much more likely to develop severe asthma with a new, nationwide, $55.8 million research initiative.

Through extensive study of how speech is perceived by people with normal hearing, UW-Madison researchers have created a method for making speech more intelligible to listeners with hearing impairments. Psychologist Keith Kluender and neuroscientist Rick Jenison have developed an algorithm that, instead of boosting the loudness of sounds ÷ as do most hearing aids, mimics the way the human ear works to make speech clear and recognizable.

A second major equipment donation will help the Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory on UW-Madison campus continue to distinguish itself as a first-of-its kind Internet research facility.

Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. A new cheese for UW’s plate More than 200 years ago, Finns and Swedes started making a flat, squeaky cheese with a buttery flavor. But only recently has this bread cheese, called juustoleipä (pronounced HOO-stah-lee-pah), …

The cream of creative thinkers from the fields of literature, philosophy, the arts and more will meet in Madison from Thursday, Oct. 31, to Sunday, Nov. 3, to consider new ways of approaching rapid and widespread changes in all sectors of society.

The patent and licensing organization of the university has become the first university technology-transfer institution in the United States to launch a satellite office.

A compound long used for baking and treating indigestion has a new use. UW-Madison researchers have discovered that sodium bicarbonate improves the quality of meat from pigs and other livestock.

As the issue of nuclear power in the United States re-emerges, the U.S. Department of Energy has recently awarded $10 million to a consortium of four “Big Ten” schools recognized as leaders in the field of nuclear engineering, among them UW-Madison.

Countering the claim among researchers that language learning in children with Down syndrome ends during the teen-age years, a new UW-Madison study shows that certain language skills continue to improve well beyond the teen-age years, suggesting that adolescents with Down syndrome should continue programs for language learning.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has designated the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison as one of three Area Poverty Research Centers.

Cheesemakers at the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, within the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, unveiled recently a new specialty cheese for Wisconsin cheese producers.

Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Paper examines “Why People Smoke” The paper, the first in a series of reports based on interviews with some 6,000 Wisconsin residents, indicates important differences in motivations for smoking among heavy (21 or more cigarettes …

Capitalizing on a tradition of pioneering research, training and outreach to improve the way science and math are taught in the nation’s schools, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has tapped UW-Madison to lead a new $35 million effort in science and math education reform.