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UW Researcher Earns Award To Study Pediatric AIDS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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