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Bacteria unlock secrets that may aid cancer treatment
The murky flasks of bacteria growing in Ben Shen’s lab may change how we look at both chemistry and chemotherapy.
Festival celebrates 10 years with ‘remarkable films’
Tickets for this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival go on sale soon, and festival organizers will honor the event’s 10th year by doing what they do best: showing good films.
University will host American College Dance Festival
The Dance Program will host the American College Dance Festival Association’s (ACDFA) North–Central Regional Conference Thursday–Sunday, March 13–16.
Campaign 2008 gets warmed up with Madison visits
The flurry of campaign activity that swept across Wisconsin and blew into Madison this month, alongside record snowfalls, provided a glimpse of what life will be like here on campus in the weeks and months leading up to the November elections.
Employee Matters
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Earlier plantings underlie yield gains in northern corn belt
U.S. farmers plant corn much earlier today than ever before and it seems to be paying off, at least in the north. Earlier plantings could account for up to half of the yield gains seen in some parts of the northern Corn Belt since the late 1970s, a new study has found.
Textiles professor embraces community service, collaboration
Larry Eisenberg was in the middle of a remodeling and expansion project, and he needed some new carpeting - $85 million worth of it, in fact.
UW students help El Salvadoran towns build wastewater system
New Year's Eve in Nejapa, El Salvador, looks a lot like the Fourth of July. At Griselda Guzman's house, homemade fireworks lighted the front yard, where the guests dancing outside her pale yellow home included 11 University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering students and three advisers.
Tickets for ‘Jeopardy!’ taping to be made available on March 25
A limited number of complimentary tickets for the taping of the “Jeopardy!” 2008 College Championship on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, at the Kohl Center will be distributed to UW–Madison faculty, staff and students on a first-come, first-served basis starting on Tuesday, March 25, at the Campus Information Center in the Red Gym.
Celebrating Leopold’s legacy
To celebrate the Aldo Leopold legacy, people are invited to the Arboretum Visitor Center, 1207 Seminole Highway, from 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 1, for “Madison Reads Leopold,” part of Aldo Leopold Weekend. Leopold Weekend is a statewide event that honors Leopold’s contributions to our understanding of the environment.
Biochemist Kimble elected National Academy councilor
Judith Kimble, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of biochemistry and genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been elected to a three-year term as councilor for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Can RFID technology promote a safer blood supply?
Radio frequency identification technology, or RFID, has inspired many novel applications of late, including efforts to study magazine reader patterns, access restricted areas, locate stolen vehicles and track luggage at major airports.
Morgridge Institute launches Web site
The Morgridge Institute for Research launched a new Web site today, Feb. 25, 2008.