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  • UW-Madison engineer named to National Academy of Engineering Feb. 12, 2013 David Gustafson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison industrial and systems engineer, was named Feb. 7 to the 2013 class of new members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
  • Weiden to serve as interim legal director Feb. 12, 2013 Michael Weiden, a retired partner with the law firm Quarles & Brady, has been appointed as interim director of Office of Administrative Legal Services, Interim Chancellor David Ward announced. Weiden will begin March 1.
  • Secretary of Academic Staff Donna Silver retires Feb. 12, 2013 Donna Silver didn’t plan to retire this soon. “This is my dream job,” Silver says of being secretary of the Academic Staff for the past three years. But last March, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, cancer of the bones. She was given two years to live. After months of being on medical leave, Silver officially retired Jan. 3. On Feb. 11, she was honored at the Academic Staff Assembly Meeting.
  • Campuswide diversity forum scheduled for Friday Feb. 12, 2013 UW–Madison’s first Inclusive Excellence Winter Symposium will take place Friday, Feb. 15. from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
  • 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.
  • Photo: Ice sheet 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.