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  • Road block: Fixing aquatic ecosystem connectivity doesn’t end with dams May 29, 2013 Over the last several years, state agencies and environmental nonprofit organizations have targeted dam removal as a way to quickly improve the health of aquatic ecosystems. Dams keep migratory fish from swimming upriver to spawn, block nutrients from flowing downstream, and change the entire hydrology of a watershed. From an ecosystem perspective, taking down a dam and returning a river to a more natural flow seems like a no-brainer.
  • Colleagues remember Rader for technical skills, human touch May 29, 2013 Computing can be a complex and difficult topic for those without technical experience. Stephen Rader’s easy-going manner made his colleagues in the Physics Department feel at-ease with technology and helped support their research successes.
  • Engineered stem cell advance points toward treatment for ALS May 28, 2013 MADISON, Wis. — Transplantation of human stem cells in an experiment conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison improved survival and muscle function in rats used to model ALS, a nerve disease that destroys nerve control of muscles, causing death by respiratory failure.
  • Down syndrome neurons grown from stem cells show signature problems May 27, 2013 In new research published this week, Anita Bhattacharyya, a neuroscientist at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reports on brain cells that were grown from skin cells of individuals with Down syndrome.
  • Committee amends UW budget provisions May 24, 2013 The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) on Thursday recommended providing the UW System $89 million less in the next biennium than Gov. Scott Walker proposed in his amended budget, and delayed for two years the implementation of UW–Madison’s HR Design and the UW System’s overhaul of its personnel system.
  • Horn named RecSports director May 24, 2013 John Horn has been named director of the Division of Recreational Sports at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Darrell Bazzell announced today.
  • Two researchers named Shaw scientists May 24, 2013 The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has chosen two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers for 2013 Shaw Scientist Awards.
  • New trial granted for Wisconsin Innocence Project client May 24, 2013
  • Construction to affect campus traffic for summer May 24, 2013 Two street construction projects will alter traffic in and around campus for most of the summer starting Tuesday, May 28 and continuing through August.
  • ‘Audio field trip’ to celebrate campus wetland and remember campus zoologist May 24, 2013 An "audio field trip" on Memorial Day will explore a restored marsh on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus - a part of the university's Lakeshore Nature Preserve. The marsh, near the western end of campus, is a remnant of a much larger wetland that was drained for other uses such as growing corn.
  • Statement of the chancellor on the Joint Finance Committee's budget action May 23, 2013 Interim Chancellor David Ward has issued the following statement regarding the Joint Finance Committee’s action on the UW System budget:
  • Understanding the past and predicting the future by looking across space and time May 23, 2013 Studying complex systems like ecosystems can get messy, especially when trying to predict how they interact with other big unknowns like climate change.
  • Symposium will focus on developmental biology May 23, 2013 When former University of Wisconsin-Madison genetics professor Oliver Smithies won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he dedicated a portion of his prize money to start a symposium to bring top biologists to campus as a resource for students, faculty, and staff.
  • Campus commuters take B-cycle for a spin May 23, 2013 Madison B-cycle, a bike rental program that serves the UW campus and surrounding downtown Madison, is seeing a strong increase in ridership as it expands to provide easy access to transportation for quick urban trips by students and other area residents.
  • Software Assurance Marketplace to host exposition May 23, 2013 Top software analysis tool providers from around the world are being invited to run their latest assessment tools at the Morgridge Institute for Research on the UW-Madison campus in a months-long series of tests to improve the quality and security of software assurance tools and open-source software.
  • Thinking ‘big’ may not be best approach to saving large-river fish May 22, 2013 Large-river specialist fishes - from giant species like paddlefish and blue catfish, to tiny crystal darters and silver chub - are in danger, but researchers say there is greater hope to save them if major tributaries identified in a University of Wisconsin-Madison study become a focus of conservation efforts.
  • Chemists find new compounds to curb staph infection May 22, 2013 In an age when microbial pathogens are growing increasingly resistant to the conventional antibiotics used to tamp down infection, a team of Wisconsin scientists has synthesized a potent new class of compounds capable of curbing the bacteria that cause staph infections.
  • Brain can be trained in compassion, study shows May 22, 2013 Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion - the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior.
  • Statement by Chancellor Ward on governor's modified budget recommendation May 21, 2013 It is likely that you have heard the news of the governor’s revised budget proposal that includes a two-year freeze on UW System tuition and reduces the amount of additional funding provided to the system in the 2013-15 biennial budget.
  • Riseling, student life staff honored by SPA awards May 21, 2013 UWPD Chief and Associate Vice Chancellor Susan Riseling is among the 2013 recipients of UW-Madison’s Student Personnel Association (SPA) Awards.