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• Puzzle of how spiral galaxies get their arms comes into focus April 2, 2013 Despite their common morphology, how galaxies like ours get and maintain their characteristic arms has proved to be an enduring puzzle in astrophysics. How do the arms of spiral galaxies arise? Do they change or come and go over time?
• Search committee formed for Secretary of Academic Staff April 2, 2013 A search committee of eight has begun the process of finding a new secretary of academic staff. The person selected will replace Donna Silver who retired Jan. 3.
• Ten winning pictures at the intersection of art and science April 2, 2013 Drawn from a record number of entries, 10 pictures at the intersection of art and science have been chosen as winners of the 2013 UW-Madison Cool Science Image contest.
• New program offers patient advocacy certificate online April 2, 2013 UW-Madison’s Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) had offered classroom courses in patient advocacy before but last fall, for the first time, began an online option for its certificate program. Development of the online Consumer Health Advocacy Certificate was funded in part through a Morgridge Match Grant.
• Hilldale awards honor four for teaching, research, service April 2, 2013 Four faculty members have been honored with the 2013 Hilldale Awards.
• Mark Johnson honored with Anthony Shadid ethics award April 1, 2013 The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will honor Milwaukee Journal Sentinel health and science reporter Mark Johnson with the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, at the center's annual conference April 5, 2013.
• Annual Wellness Expo raises awareness and funds for charity April 1, 2013 The Wisconsin Wellness Expo, an annual event celebrating healthy lifestyle choices, is scheduled for Saturday, April 6, at UW-Madison's Southeast Recreational Facility, commonly known as the SERF.
• Update: Construction damage closes part of Park Street through April 16 March 29, 2013 North Park Street is temporarily closed between Langdon Street and Observatory Drive due to construction activity that damaged an underground pipe.
• Friends of the Libraries Book Sale starts April 3 March 29, 2013 The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Spring Book Sale, which organizers say is one of the largest used book sales in Wisconsin with more than 15,000 books to choose from, will be held Wednesday, April 3 through Saturday, April 6.
• Céline Cousteau to speak at Earth Day conference March 28, 2013 Marine conservation advocate and filmmaker Céline Cousteau will be a featured speaker at the seventh annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference on Monday, April 15.
• Jerry Marwell, expert on social movements, dies at 76 March 28, 2013 Gerald Marwell, Richard T. Ely Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on Sunday, March 24 in New York City. He was 76.
• UW Varsity Band Concert at Kohl Center April 18-20 March 27, 2013 The 2013 edition of the UW Varsity Band Concert will be bigger and better than ever, says conductor Mike Leckrone, who promises handclapping Badger favorites, multimedia displays, dramatic pyrotechnics, and aerial stunts performed by Leckrone himself.
• Obesity policy strategies win national competition March 26, 2013 A team of five students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison La Follette School won first place for their strategies to combat childhood obesity in a national public affairs competition in Washington, D.C., March 22-23.
• Researchers discover the brain origins of variation in pathological anxiety March 26, 2013 New findings from nonhuman primates suggest that an overactive core circuit in the brain, and its interaction with other specialized circuits, accounts for the variability in symptoms shown by patients with severe anxiety.
• School of Veterinary Medicine, UW Veterinary Care to hold open house March 25, 2013 The UW School of Veterinary Medicine and UW Veterinary Care, the school's veterinary medical teaching hospital, will host an open house on Sunday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• With 400th Ph.D. grad, UW-Madison celebrates a half century of fusion energy March 25, 2013 In the 1930s and '40s, many researchers studied ways to use fusion, the reaction in which atomic nuclei collide, fuse and release energy, to develop atomic weapons. Later, those same brilliant minds began to focus on beneficial applications of fusion, including developing plants that would produce electrical energy for society.
• Research uses muscle activity to move virtual objects March 21, 2013 A team at UW-Madison says it has developed, for the first time, a way to move virtual objects in an immersive virtual reality environment through the use of muscle activity.
• Expanded Science Expeditions opens doors to UW-Madison research March 21, 2013 Ana Garic spends her days in a University of Wisconsin–Madison lab studying a public health problem with real impact in Wisconsin communities — which is why it feels so good to invite the public onto her turf for the campus’ annual Science Expeditions open house to be held April 5-7.
• Four pharmacy dean finalists announced March 21, 2013 Four finalists have been announced for the deanship of the School of Pharmacy.
• New office supports the academic advisors who support students March 21, 2013 Five years ago, 20 University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates majored in statistics. Today, that number has risen to 110 – and it keeps going up. Thanks to funding from the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates (MIU), the Department of Statistics hired faculty associate Kevin Packard as its first staff advisor.