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UW leads landmark lung cancer study
Researchers from the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center announced May 22 results from a landmark research trial that shows chemotherapy offers survival benefits for advanced lung cancer patients.
Conference to focus on affordable housing issues
A Milwaukee housing conference sponsored by the Business School will focus on the overriding policy issues that affect affordable housing today and will guide the future.
Space station beckons ice cloud project
Sometime in the year 2003, if all goes well, a UW–Madison experiment, designed to probe the nearly invisible ice clouds of Earth, will be hitched by astronauts to the International Space Station.
Sun Microsystems supercomputer to advance genomics
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and UW–Madison today, May 18, announced the expansion of a decade-long relationship enabling the campus to acquire a $2.5 million supercomputer for genetics research.
Advances
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50 years later, they’re gone
After a half-century, the 'temporary' buildings on the west end of campus have crumbled under the claw of an excavator, making way for something more permanent - the Engineering Centers Building.
Better pest controls mean safer potatoes
University research is helping state potato growers dramatically reduce the chemicals they use to manage what traditionally has been a pesticide-intensive crop.
Scientist’s goal: Control mosquito-borne diseases
The very thought of it can make you itch. Bruce Christensen pops open the door of a sealed research room about the size of a walk-in freezer. Except this room radiates with dank, tropical heat and is full of cloth-covered containers crawling with armies of hungry mosquitoes.
Wildlife collection will aid study of species
James Borman has moved on to the happy hunting ground, but his legacy will touch people throughout Wisconsin. Over his lifetime, he assembled a massive collection of preserved wildlife specimens from North America and elsewhere. Borman, who died in 1999, willed the collection to the university.
Sleep apnea likely to lead to hypertension
Armed with the strongest evidence to date, researchers at the UW Medical School have established that sleep apnea -- episodes of breathing pauses during sleep -- is likely to be an important cause of hypertension.
Facility to bridge gap between discovery, therapy
A new Waisman Center facility will help scientists overcome one of the major hurdles of biomedical research: Taking a promising discovery from the laboratory bench to the medical environment.
National poverty conference set for May 27
The Institute for Research on Poverty is hosting a national conference May 22-24 to explore future trends in poverty issues.
Building boom continues at research park
The University Research Parkâs incubator for small-scale, high-technology business startups has outgrown itself again, prompting the parkâs Board of Trustees to launch a second expansion in as many years.
Lost and found: Hubble finds universe’s missing hydrogen
UW astronomer Blair Savage and two collaborators say they have discovered vast quantities of hydrogen that were cooked up in the Big Bang but previously remained invisible to astronomers scanning the empty blackness of space.
New network fosters start-ups
A new investor network is ready to help campus researchers create the start-up ventures that transfer academic technology to the commercial sector.
Advances
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National Bioethics Panel to meet here
The National Bioethics Advisory Commission, the federal panel appointed by the president and charged with formulating and reviewing policy that relate to issues of modern bioscience, will hold its 40th public meeting in Madison May 4-5.
New book critiques welfare, poverty policy
'Speaking Out: Women, Poverty, and Public Policy,' a new book by the UW System Women's Studies Consortium, is a platform for scholars, feminists, and low-income women to speak out on welfare reform.
Researchers tantalize animal taste buds
GÅ¡ran Hellekant and fellow researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine have perfected a machine that allows them to determine what an animal tastes. Making animal diets more palatable could improve animal health on farms and in zoos, among other places.
Study examines Dane County W-2 families
A new study by the Institute for Research on Poverty chronicles the successes and challenges of 100 Dane County families that have transitioned to Wisconsin's new welfare reform program.