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  • Chancellor to honor distinguished undergraduates May 8, 2013 This year’s Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards ceremony will recognize 135 UW–Madison winners of the Hilldale Fellowship, the Herfurth and Kubly Awards, the Holstrom Environmental Scholarship and the University Book Store Awards, as well as winners of the national Goldwater, Udall and Truman scholarships and more.
  • Early career award funds study of messenger RNA stability May 8, 2013 In an effort to improve microorganisms that can sustainably produce fuels and chemicals, a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineer is using a U.S. Department of Energy award to study what - if anything - gets lost in the translation of genetic information.
  • Ride to Farm to support beginning dairy and livestock farmers May 8, 2013 The Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers is recruiting cyclists and pledges for its 10th annual Ride to Farm fundraiser on Saturday, June 1 to support the next generation of Wisconsin farmers.
  • Dictionary of American Regional English gets financial reprieve May 8, 2013 Last month, the financial picture looked bleak for the Dictionary of American Regional English.
  • Journalism students create strategic campaign for new company May 8, 2013 The TV show “The Apprentice” comes to mind when students in Deb Pierce’s capstone journalism course describe their semester. Twenty-five seniors in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication had signed up to apply everything they’d learned, over four years of classes and internships, to an actual client.
  • Photo: Holstein dairy cows New project will adapt dairying to climate change May 7, 2013 Agricultural scientists from across the nation are embarking on a new five-year, $10 million, USDA-funded effort to identify dairy production practices that minimize the emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG) and will be more resilient to the effects of a changing climate.
  • Update: Prescribed burns in nature preserve to begin Wednesday May 7, 2013 Prescribed burns will begin taking place this Wednesday in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve near the western edge of the UW-Madison campus.
  • 2013 Phi Beta Kappa initiates chosen May 7, 2013 The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently announced the 2013 initiates for the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.
  • Advanced manufacturing focus of June 10-14 conference May 7, 2013 Featuring a broad swath of leading-edge research from around the world, an advanced manufacturing research conference June 10-14, 2013, will draw nearly 500 academic, industrial and governmental participants to the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison.
  • Parking rates to increase for 2013-14 May 7, 2013 Parking rates on campus will increase beginning Sept. 1, 2013. UW Transportation Services is making the change to ensure revenue streams can maintain the current levels of transit, transportation and parking options available.
  • Momentum builds for campus research computing May 7, 2013 Faced with computing infrastructure limitations that might stymie researchers elsewhere, UW-Madison scientists and investigators have always found ways to do more with less.
  • New book examines young people’s overlooked views on politics May 7, 2013 They’re too young to vote but not too young to care. That’s part of the message in “Teenage Citizens: The Political Theories of the Young,” a new book by Constance Flanagan.
  • CLS interpreters break down language barriers May 7, 2013 On an early spring morning, about 10 Spanish-speaking UW–Madison employees are having a lively discussion around a table in the Gordon Dining and Event Center. In the center of the group are Carmen Romero González, training officer supervisor, and Blanca García, training officer with the Office of Human Resource Development’s Cultural Linguistic Services (CLS) unit.
  • Updated Statement by Chancellor Ward on UW Fund Balances May 6, 2013 I have appreciated the discussion I have heard on campus regarding the fund balances carried by University of Wisconsin System schools. As I wrote in the April 25 email on this subject, the funds in these accounts are used to help UW–Madison succeed in its academic and research missions. I am following up to give you more specifics about the funds, and to clarify some points about them.
  • UW-Madison student competes in 'Jeopardy!' College Championship May 6, 2013 When the "Jeopardy!" College Championship was filmed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April 2008, Julia Sprangers sat in the Kohl Center audience to watch then-senior Suchita Shah compete.
  • Shakhashiri receives prestigious award for public education May 3, 2013 Bassam Shakhashiri, a chemistry professor and William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received the 2013 Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science.
  • Unique engineering shop looks to another challenge of 21st century physics May 3, 2013 Sequestered in the farmland near Stoughton, an unusual University of Wisconsin-Madison facility - part machine shop, part design lab, part physics outpost - continues to make machines, equipment and detectors for the world's most advanced experiments.
  • Adult cells transformed into early-stage nerve cells, bypassing the pluripotent stem cell stage May 2, 2013 A University of Wisconsin-Madison research group has converted skin cells from people and monkeys into a cell that can form a wide variety of nervous-system cells - without passing through the do-it-all stage called the induced pluripotent stem cell, or iPSC.
  • Photo: middle school students looking at experiment results With heart cells, middle schoolers learn the hard lessons of science May 2, 2013 The drug trial is not off to an auspicious start. The cells are not cooperating.
  • Public invited to UW Family Gardening Day May 2, 2013 Whether your garden sprawls across an acre or fits into a pot on your balcony, this year's UW Family Gardening Day, May 11 on the UW-Madison campus, will provide tips for making it your best one ever.