Stories indexed under: Biology

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• 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.
• 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.
• Decline in snow cover spells trouble for many plants, animals May 6, 2013 For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from biting winds and subzero temperatures.
• New living, learning community to welcome biology students April 24, 2013 To help bio newbies get off to the right start, as many as 130 students will begin 2014 in BioHouse, the university’s 10th residential learning community.
• Analytical trick may accelerate cancer diagnosis Feb. 24, 2013 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a new way to accelerate a workhorse instrument that identifies proteins. The high-speed technique could help diagnose cancer sooner and point to new drugs for treating a wide range of conditions.
• In evolution, fossils reveal, ‘Court Jester’ gets last laugh Jan. 9, 2013 The dominant factors in the rise and fall of the diversity of life on Earth has been a point of debate for scientists nearly as long as they have studied the processes of evolution.
• Outreach efforts earn UW–Madison employee award from public schools Oct. 13, 2011 There has been a marked increase in green slime, exploding volcanoes, and rockets blasting off in the Madison public schools over the past few years, thanks to the hard work of Dolly Ledin at UW–Madison’s Institute for Biology Education.
• Two UW–Madison academic staff educators receive teaching awards Aug. 29, 2011 Two University of Wisconsin–Madison educators are among the recipients of the UW System's 2011 Alliant Energy Underkofler Awards for Excellence in Teaching.
• Science teachers to get opportunity to explore evolution June 7, 2011 Science teachers will have a unique opportunity to get inside evolution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has a long history of evolutionary researchers.
• Biology “boot camp” to help incoming students through maze of UW-Madison biology May 20, 2010 Incoming biology students at University of Wisconsin-Madison will get extensive new help navigating the tricky transition from high school to a university that has 31 different majors related to biology, funded by a $1.4 million undergraduate science education grant announced today by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• Science writer tackles Darwin's 'Secret Life' Jan. 20, 2010 Charles Darwin let more than two decades pass between his return to England aboard HMS Beagle and the publication of "Origin of the Species."
• Evolution institute named for pioneering UW-Madison geneticist Nov. 19, 2009 A few days before the 150th anniversary of the "Origin of Species," Charles Darwin's epochal book on evolution, plans for a new evolution institute moved closer to final approval at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Expert on relationship between animals and bacteria wins Guggenheim honor June 18, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison developmental biologist Margaret McFall-Ngai has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, a one-year grant that will support her investigation into how animals interact with their natural complement of microbes.
• As biology booms, students flock to the lab May 14, 2009 Since the mid-1990s, UW-Madison has experienced a surge of interest in biology, a phenomenon that has challenged the folks who run UW-Madison's biggest portal to this hot field: Introductory Biology 151 and 152 in the College of Letters and Science.
• Intrepid explorers and the search for the origin of species Feb. 12, 2009 A UW-Madison professor of genetics will give the plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Friday, Feb. 13.
• New evolutionary biology option looks to the future of science Jan. 28, 2009 Charles Darwin would be proud of the way the biology major has evolved during the last academic year.