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• Strike against cancer at Bowlin' for Colons Feb. 12, 2013 Bowlers from across Wisconsin plan to “pin” colorectal cancer by participating in the twelfth annual Bowlin’ for Colons fundraiser on Sunday, March 3.
• Isotopic Data Show Farming Arrived in Europe with Migrants Feb. 11, 2013 For decades, archaeologists have debated how farming spread to Stone Age Europe, setting the stage for the rise of Western civilization. Now, new data gleaned from the teeth of prehistoric farmers and the hunter-gatherers with whom they briefly overlapped shows that agriculture was introduced to Central Europe from the Near East by colonizers who brought farming technology with them.
• Video tool could help active workers avoid injury Feb. 11, 2013 Using just video of workers performing tasks such as assembling a manufactured part or packing boxes, a system developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers might soon be able to automatically assess the likelihood that workers will develop common repetitive-motion injuries.
• Technique moves practical Alzheimer diagnosis one step closer to reality Feb. 11, 2013 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health are moving closer to a significant milepost in the battle against Alzheimer's disease: identifying the first signs of decline in the brain.
• Fishing rod holder for boat, land or ice is champion of 2013 innovation competition Feb. 8, 2013 A self-adjusting, boat-mounted holder for fishing rods has won the top prize and $10,000 in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, one of a pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison innovation competitions. Held Feb. 7 and 8, the Innovation Days competitions reward UW-Madison undergraduates for creative and marketable ideas.
• Journalism students learn ethics through online case study Feb. 8, 2013 You're a college student working for a news service, and your editor asks you to check out a breaking-news situation.
• Stress is underreported in parents of children with cancer Feb. 8, 2013
• UW-Madison response to Board of Regents PETA protest Feb. 7, 2013 Following today's protest by actor James Cromwell at the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Eric Sandgren, director of the UW–Madison Research Animal Resource Center released the following statement.
• Darwin Day celebrates evolutionary diversity of sex and reproduction Feb. 7, 2013 The annual celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will showcase the evolutionary expressions of sex and reproduction in the natural world.
• Ward update to governance groups on Palermo’s Pizza issue Feb. 7, 2013 The following letter was sent on Thursday, Feb. 7 from Interim Chancellor David Ward to the University Committee, the Academic Staff Executive Committee, the Associated Students of Madison and the Labor Licensing Policy Committee.
• Stunning works featured in staff art gallery Feb. 7, 2013 The Academic Staff Art Gallery in Bascom Hall this semester is featuring works that combine art and science, encompassing the scientific impact of models of invertebrates, glassblowing and photography.
• America’s partisan divide: not as simple as it seems Feb. 7, 2013 Is the United States a bitterly divided country, split along harsh partisan political lines, or are we a nation composed mostly of moderates trapped between the extremists yelling from either end of the ideological spectrum?
• Hundreds “Seize the Lei” to Help Find a Cure for Epilepsy Feb. 7, 2013 A sold-out crowd of more than 650 guests warmed up a cold winter’s night recently at the fifth annual Lily’s Luau, raising $105,000 to benefit Lily’s Fund for Epilepsy Research.
• Facebook users browse their own profiles to boost egos Feb. 6, 2013 Lousy day at work or a bad grade on an exam? New research suggests people feeling deflated seek solace in their Facebook profiles to puff themselves up.
• Warming ‘seesaw’ turns extra sunlight into global greenhouse Feb. 6, 2013 Earth's most recent shift to a warm climate began with intense summer sun in the Northern Hemisphere, the first pressure on a seesaw that tossed powerful forces between the planet's poles until greenhouse gases accelerated temperature change on a global scale.
• Artist in residence explores black cultural identity Feb. 6, 2013 Faisal Abdu’Allah, an internationally acclaimed British artist whose iconographic images of power, race, masculinity, violence, and faith challenge the values and ideologies society attaches to those images, is the The Arts Institute and the Department of Art History’s Spring 2013 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence.
• Finding challenges accepted view of MS: Unexpectedly, damaged nerve fibers survive Feb. 5, 2013 Multiple sclerosis, a brain disease that affects over 400,000 Americans, causes movement difficulties and many neurologic symptoms. MS has two key elements: The nerves that direct muscular movement lose their electrical insulation (the myelin sheath) and cannot transmit signals as effectively. And many of the long nerve fibers, called axons, degenerate.
• UW–Madison again among top producers of Peace Corps volunteers Feb. 5, 2013 The University of Wisconsin-Madison currently has 103 graduates serving overseas in 47 countries as Peace Corps volunteers, ranking third for the second consecutive year on the corps' annual list of the top volunteer-producers among large U.S. universities.
• Weston Roundtable adds distinguished speakers on sustainable water, energy Feb. 5, 2013 A pair of leading figures in the field of sustainability - Jerry Schnoor of the University of Iowa and Dave Allen of the University of Texas at Austin - will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this semester in two Weston Distinguished Lectures.
• High-level commission discusses future of graduate education in the chemical sciences Feb. 5, 2013 Members of an American Chemical Society commission will discuss the need for radical changes to graduate education in the chemical sciences at a colloquium in Madison Feb. 7.