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• Jordan Gerth: Souping up state weather forecasts Sept. 6, 2007 Since arriving at UW–Madison from Kenosha in 2005 as a freshman, the atmospheric and oceanic sciences major has taken a lead role in a project that is making campus weather research tools available to frontline forecasters in Wisconsin’s National Weather Service (NWS) regional offices.
• Beijing seminar helps Wisconsin dairies build a bridge to China Sept. 4, 2007 Along the northern and northeastern borders of China, traditionally considered the country's dairy belt, daily life can resemble a scene from a Wisconsin of a bygone era. But Chinese dairy farmers aren't facing the hurdles of modernization alone. To help them meet their lofty goals, they are turning to a state that knows a thing or two about building a dairy industry: Wisconsin.
• Invasive species spreads to Vilas County lake in Wisconsin Aug. 31, 2007 The spiny water flea, a small but aggressive aquatic invasive species, has made its way into another of Wisconsin's lakes, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reported last week.
• New Web site makes it easier to find, analyze dairy market data Aug. 27, 2007 Crunching the dairy numbers is a lot simpler than it used to be, thanks to one of the most comprehensive collections of dairy marketing information going online.
• Hungry insects leave clues to impacts of climate change Aug. 27, 2007
• At home in the Northwoods Aug. 27, 2007 Summer is high season at Kemp Natural Resources Station in Woodruff, Wis, when a series of classes, researchers and visitors stream onto Kemp grounds. For most, Kemp serves as a home base for research projects that require access to woods, water, wildlife or wilderness. This summer, the station is hosting people studying topics ranging from climate change to lakeshore ecology to biodiversity.
• Study finds Viagra increases release of key reproductive hormone Aug. 23, 2007 The little blue pill may do more than get the blood pumping. Sildenafil — the generic name for Viagra — also increases release of a reproductive hormone in rats, according to a new study.
• http://wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/features/barb-lawrence-cultivating-better-dementia-care/ Aug. 22, 2007
• New book analyzes candid community conversations on race Aug. 21, 2007 Katherine Cramer Walsh woke up one morning seven years ago to hear a radio advertisement promoting a community-based conversation about race in Madison.
• Clinical depression linked to abnormal emotional brain circuits Aug. 15, 2007 In what may be the first study to use brain imaging to look at the neural circuits involved in emotional control in patients with depression, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that brains of people with clinical depression react very differently than those of healthy people when trying to cope with negative situations.
• UW research taking a birds-eye view of groundwater discharge Aug. 14, 2007 Water research is often carried out in waders, but this year University of Wisconsin-Madison hydrogeologist Steven Loheide will use an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to probe water locked underground in a study supported by the UW-Madison Water Resources Institute (WRI).
• Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities Aug. 14, 2007 A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses - including those that cause important human diseases such as AIDS, SARS and hepatitis C - have features in common that could eventually make them vulnerable to broad-spectrum antiviral agents.
• Veterinary professor improves Wisconsin dairy industry Aug. 8, 2007 Ken Nordlund still remembers the skeptical face at the back of the room as he and his colleagues introduced the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine's new Transition Cow Index (TCI) to dairy farmers from around the state.
• Wisconsin engineers ready a blueprint for a nanomechanical computer Aug. 3, 2007 If efforts now under way by a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers pan out, the age of the nanomechanical computer may be at hand.
• Building green for less green: Design team plans lower-cost, energy-efficient housing Aug. 2, 2007 A team of faculty, students and community organizations is out to construct a new reality: green housing that can also be affordable.
• Second place is sweet for food development team Aug. 2, 2007 Thanks to the innovation of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Food Science Club, consumers may one day follow a course of sushi not with sake, but with espresso or a latte.
• Jessica Doyle to speak at PEOPLE pre-college celebration Aug. 1, 2007 Wisconsin First Lady Jessica Doyle will be the keynote speaker as 167 Wisconsin high school students and 80 newly enrolled University of Wisconsin-Madison freshmen are recognized Friday, Aug. 3, for academic achievement.
• Stem cell therapy rescues motor neurons in ALS model Aug. 1, 2007 In a study that demonstrates the promise of cell-based therapies for diseases that have proved intractable to modern medicine, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shown it is possible to rescue the dying neurons characteristic of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neuromuscular disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
• ‘Glass menagerie:’ Museum unearths exotic stash of glass sea creatures July 25, 2007 An ordinary mid-summer stroll through Noland Hall in 2005 led Paula Holahan to an extraordinary discovery: box after box filled with a sea of intricate glass sculptures of marine invertebrate animals.
• New digital collection 'Sixty Books, Sixty Libraries' goes online July 19, 2007 Ever dream of having your photos, drawings or stories published online? For a few Wisconsinites, that dream was realized through a collaborative art project digitized by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, which goes live this week.