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• Update: Campus prepares for first winter storm Dec. 18, 2012 With the last days of finals upon us, the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus is making preparations for the first major snowstorm of the season. The campus is expected to be open for business, with finals to be held as scheduled.
• From penguins to hyenas, vet students care for the wildest patients Dec. 18, 2012 A UW-Madison initiative is one of only 22 accredited zoological medicine residency programs in the world, and its mission is to prepare veterinarians to effectively treat the increasing number of exotic pets, animals at zoos and aquaria, and injured and sick wildlife — and free-ranging wildlife as well.
• Nominations accepted for Academic Staff Excellence Awards Dec. 18, 2012 For the 22nd year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to honor the achievements of nine extraordinary members of the academic staff. In addition, the UW System will also honor academic staff in five categories.
• Administrative Excellence teams make progress in 2012 Dec. 18, 2012 As 2012 ends, UW-Madison teams working on the Administrative Excellence initiative have made significant strides to realize institutionwide savings and efficiencies.
• Games+Learning+Society joins the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Dec. 18, 2012 In a loftlike upper level of the purple building on the corner of University Avenue and Randall Street, people dart in and out of cubicles with NERF guns, forgetting deadlines and deliverables to wage playful battles for an hour or two with their colleagues and celebrate new office space.
• A first step in preparing for the new campus email and calendaring system Dec. 18, 2012 Is managing your email account already one of your New Year's resolutions?
• Botany experiment will try out zero gravity aboard space station Dec. 17, 2012 Gravity: It's the law in these parts. But to reach the stars, humans may have to learn to live outside the law.
• Mapping effort charts restoration tack for Great Lakes Dec. 17, 2012 As the federal government builds on its $1 billion investment to clean up and restore the Great Lakes, an international research consortium has developed innovative new maps of both environmental threats and benefits to help guide cost-effective approaches to environmental remediation of the world’s largest fresh water resource.
• DARE publishes companion volume to landmark dictionary Dec. 17, 2012 The dictionary known as DARE, a landmark project housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, now has a companion volume that gives readers a chance to dig deep into the definitive source on American speech from the first colonists to our neighbors today.
• New form of cell division found Dec. 17, 2012 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center have discovered a new form of cell division in human cells.
• Library finalists present to public Dec. 14, 2012 Final presentations by the four finalists for Vice Provost for Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are now available for online viewing.
• Bad news for bats: deadly fungus persists in caves Dec. 14, 2012 Researchers have found that the organism that causes deadly white-nose syndrome persists in caves long after it has killed the bats in those caves. A study just published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology shows that the fungus can survive in soil for months, even years, after the bats have departed.
• Campus-youth partnership to share artistic skills in recording studio Dec. 14, 2012 A partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Madison-area youth will help young people explore and develop their creative talents in a cutting-edge sound recording studio.
• Search and screen committee appointed for next College of Letters & Science dean Dec. 13, 2012 A 17-member search and screen committee has been appointed to assist in identifying a successor to Gary Sandefur, dean of the College of Letters & Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• White House official to discuss science policy Dec. 13, 2012 Thomas Kalil, deputy director for policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will discuss the difference between “policy for science” and “science for policy” tomorrow (Friday, Dec. 14) as part of the Neuroscience and Public Policy Seminar series.
• Retired administrator joins words and art in new exhibits Dec. 13, 2012 After retiring in 1994 as associate dean in the College of Letters & Science, Blair Mathews has maintained his connection with the university through a variety of channels. Now, as a poet, Mathews brings a different kind of work back to campus.
• Christens wins national early career award Dec. 13, 2012 Brian D. Christens, assistant professor of human ecology in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and associate faculty director for research at the Center for Nonprofits, has received the 2012 Michele Alexander Early Career Award for scholarship and service.
• Competitive prizes help move printable prosthetic hand closer to market Dec. 12, 2012 With an inexpensive, body-powered prosthetic that replicates an amputee's lost hand, a University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineering student earned second place in the undergraduate division of the 2012 National Collegiate Inventors Competition, held in Washington, D.C., in November.
• Boy with autism funds research with hand-drawn holiday cards Dec. 12, 2012 Giizhik Klawiter has never been so much as a visitor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center, but the 10-year-old boy with autism from Hayward, Wis., is one of the most faithful supporters of the center's developmental disabilities research. For four years, Giizhik's mother, Pam Miller, has visited Walmart, the casino, grocery stores and craft fairs to sell Christmas cards designed by Giizhik (whose name means "white cedar" in Ojibwe) and his brother Mino (short for Minode'e, loosely "has a kind heart").
• Provost outlines child abuse and neglect reporting obligations Dec. 12, 2012 Here is a message from the provost about child abuse and neglect reporting requirements.