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UW Researcher Earns Award To Study Pediatric AIDS

January 26, 1998

A famous 1969 UW–Madison graduate who died from HIV infection acquired through a tainted blood transfusion is touching the life and work of a campus AIDS researcher four years after her death. Read More

Stumptailed Monkeys May Find Home In Thailand

January 23, 1998

UW-Madison and Thailand officials continue to work together to create a new home for the UW–Madison stumptailed monkey colony housed at the Henry Vilas Zoo. Read More

Shuttle From Camp Randall, Special Lots Are Best Parking Bets

January 23, 1998

In order to reduce traffic and parking problems as you head to tonight's UW women's basketball game at the Kohl Center, consider taking the Madison Metro Bucky Bus from Camp Randall. Read More

Out-of-this-World Experience for Middle School Students

January 23, 1998

With the successful launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour Thursday evening (Jan. 22) for its docking and transfer mission, it carries into space a… Read More

UW Doctors Take STD Prevention to Prisons

January 22, 1998

A team of Wisconsin researchers is one of only four in the nation selected to work on a major national initiative on prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases in young male inmates being released back into the community. Read More

Turf Management Takes Professor Around the World of Sports

January 21, 1998

The phone rang shortly after John Stier arrived at his campus office at 8 a.m. The Green Bay Packers were calling. They needed his help. Read More

Luncheon for Latino Academic Staff Feb. 13

January 20, 1998

The Latino Academic Staff Association will hold a special luncheon Friday, Feb. 13 for anyone interested in joining the organization. Read More

UW Corn Authority Nelson Cited by Genetics Society

January 16, 1998

Oliver E. Nelson, an internationally recognized authority on the genetics of corn, is the recipient of the 1997 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal from the Genetics Society of America for his lifetime contribution to genetics. Read More

Sunstad Resigns as Director of University Housing

January 14, 1998

Norm Sunstad has resigned as director of University Housing effective this month and will soon strap on a new job - and a pair of skis - in Gunnison, Colo. Read More

UW-Owned Zoo Monkeys Headed To Tulane Primate Center

January 14, 1998

UW-Madison Primate Center officials announced Friday that the Tulane Regional Primate Research Center in Covington, La., will be providing a new home for 100 UW-owned rhesus monkeys at the Henry Vilas Zoo. Read More

Three Events Give Public Initimate View of Kohl Center

January 14, 1998

Jane Albright-Dieterle, women’s basketball coach, described this as a red-letter week in Wisconsin’s athletic history Monday during her first Kohl Center press conference. Read More

Kohl Center Makes Debut This Weekend

January 14, 1998

The final bolts are just about in place, the courtside wiring for the media is being hooked up, the cleanup of the lingering construction dust is nearly completed. Read More

University Committee Rejects Duke Grading Study

January 14, 1998

The University Committee agreed Monday not to participate in a Duke University study of alternative grading. Read More

State, UW Officials Challenge Education Week Study

January 13, 1998

State Superintendent of Schools John Benson and UW–Madison School of Education Dean Charles Read expressed dismay today (Friday, Jan. 9 ) over a study placing the quality of Wisconsin's teaching force last in the nation. Read More

Spuds Redux

January 12, 1998

The folks who brought us spuds in space have a new crop to tend this January, when they attempt to grow an amber wave of weightless grain. Read More

Hubble finds one more oddity on an already strange moon

January 9, 1998

Jupiter's moon Io, whose strange surface is defined by active volcanoes, lakes of molten sulfur and vast fields of sulfur dioxide snow, has revealed another oddity to scientists: caps of glowing hydrogen gas at the moon's poles. Read More

Smoked Meats Are Safe, Task Force Concludes

January 8, 1998

An interdisciplinary task force of scientists concluded in a recently issued report that there is virtually no scientific rationale for this conclusion. Read More

CALS Dean Finalists Named

January 8, 1998

Chancellor David Ward will consider four finalists for dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences recommended Jan. 6 by a college search committee. Read More

With space telescope and model, star’s birth pains revealed

January 7, 1998

With Space Telescope and Model, Star's Birth Pains Revealed" #description "Using a potent combination of observation and theory, astronomers are peeling away layers of cosmic dust to see the birth pains of sun-like stars. Read More

Colon Cancer Linked To Genes, Not Lifestyle

January 6, 1998

Colon cancer and many other geriatric diseases in primates appear to be natural outcomes of aging, rather than being caused by outside factors, a scientist at UW–Madison has found. Read More