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Limnologist casts the human factor into lake study
For well more than 100 years, a succession of eminent biologists and ecologists have used Wisconsin lakes as their laboratory, dissecting their physical attributes as well as the complex interplay of the plants and animals that live in them. A lake, after all, is a busy place, filled with aquatic vegetation, mollusks, microbial communities of all kinds and, of course, fish and the stuff they eat.
Milestones
Rachel Brenner, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, was named the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor, effective July 1. R. Alta Charo, Law School, will…
For the Record
Wisconsin Week, the newspaper of record for UW–Madison, carries legally required notices for faculty and staff.
UW-Madison’s ‘good ideas’ get lift from stimulus funds
The university has drawn more than $38 million in funding for more than 120 research projects and programs from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The work is spread across the range of academic disciplines, including public health, computer science, psychology, economics and engineering. Funding comes from agencies such as NSF, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Energy and the National Endowment for the Arts.
School of Veterinary Medicine sponsors 26th annual Dog Jog
At 10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 20, hundreds of animal lovers and their dogs will run (or walk) the two-mile Dog Jog benefit race, sponsored by the School of Veterinary Medicine. Whether participants finish doesn’t matter nearly as much as the amount of money they raise.
Population health sciences honors 50th anniversary with symposium
Against the drama of the national debate on health care reform, a two-day symposium at UW–Madison will bring experts in evidence-based medicine and public health to shed light on some of the pressing issues in health care.
St. Jude CEO to deliver 2009 Rennebohm lecture
William E. Evans, chief executive officer of St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and an expert on the treatment of pediatric cancer, and a research leader in the effect of genetics to the response to drugs, will deliver the 2009 Rennebohm Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 10.
Cinematheque opens with classic musical treat
Whether setting the stage for action or enfolding a tender moment, music has always enhanced the filmmaker’s art. For its first offerings of the 2009–10 school year, Cinematheque offers two gems with timeless musical charm.
Fearful symmetry: an artist and her insects
Jennifer Angus’s work walks a fine line between beautiful and horrifying. In her hands, insects are not just bugs on the wall. She arranges them in precise patterns of colors and shapes. the result is disarming beauty.
Snaring bigger bugs gave flytraps evolutionary edge
Carnivorous plants defy our expectations of how plants should behave, with Venus flytraps employing nerve-like reflexes and powerful digestive enzymes to capture and consume fresh meat. The evolutionary history of these botanical oddities is now a bit clearer, thanks to new work.
WARF and Echometrix sign license agreement on ultrasound technology
Echometrix, a developer of proprietary ultrasound technology, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private, non-profit patent and licensing organization for…
Curiosities: Are there more food recalls now? Why?
2009 has been a big year for food recalls, largely because salmonella-contaminated dried milk, pistachio nuts and peanut products affected thousands of items in a…
Wisconsin team grows retina cells from skin-derived stem cells
A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has successfully grown multiple types of retina cells from two types of stem cells - suggesting a future in which damaged retinas could be repaired by cells grown from the patient's own skin.