http://www.news.wisc.edu News stories from the University of Wisconsin-Madison en-us As vice president and chief financial officer of Plexus, a global electronics manufacturing corporation in Neenah, Wis., Ginger Jones was skeptical. She wasn't sure college students could come up with sound, practical advice her business could use. Bill Graf wlgraf@wisc.edu 2008-05-08 http://www.wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/profiles/Seward/ http://www.wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/profiles/Seward/ Viruses are masters of deception, duping their host's cells into helping them grow and spread. A new study has found that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery, disrupting a cell's primary anti-cancer mechanism. Jill Sakai jasakai@wisc.edu 2008-05-08 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15213 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15213 A new online map makes it possible, for the first time, to track news of disease outbreaks around the world that threaten the health of wildlife, domestic animals, and people. Tom Sinclair tksincla@facstaff.wisc.edu 2008-05-07 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15206 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15206 Since scientists first learned to make nanowires, the tiny wires just a few millionths of a centimeter thick have taken many forms, including nanobelts, nanocoils and nanoflowers. Madeline Fisher mmfisher@wisc.edu 2008-05-01 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15165 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15165 Arabic script runs along the dormitory hall of the third floor in Adams Hall. To an outsider it looks like an intricate design flowing among the plaster, but to the residents it provides direction and introductions to their fellow floormates. 2008-05-01 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15117 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15117 When University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Claire Flanagan graduates in May 2009 with bachelor's degrees in biomedical engineering (BME) and biochemistry, she might display her diploma next to an equally prestigious document: a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Renee Meiller meiller@engr.wisc.edu 2008-04-30 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15157 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15157 A new Wisconsin project funded by the U.S. Department of Education will feature an unprecedented partnership among public school teachers, university and technical college faculty, and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum to invigorate the teaching of American history. Kristin Czubkowski czubkowski@wisc.edu 2008-04-30 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15153 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15153 For Ahna Skop, the tipping point to a career in science was a dance and a food fight. Terry Devitt trdevitt@wisc.edu 2008-04-28 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15115 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15115 The joyous, colorful, energetic and out-of-this-world spectacle of the circus can’t help but capture an artist’s imagination. That exuberance will take center ring in the Chazen Museum of Art when it presents two circus-themed exhibitions: “Ringmaster: Judy Onofrio and the Art of the Circus,” and “Harry A. Atwell, Circus Photographer.” Gwen Evans gevans@wisc.edu 2008-04-24 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15118 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15118 How we think about a disaster stems from the origin of the word itself: "Disastro" is the Latin word meaning "from the stars." Yet the idea that a disaster is an uncontrollable, divine event is something Don Schramm, director of UW-Madison’s Disaster Management Center, does not accept. Sandra Knisely perspective@engr.wisc.edu 2008-04-23 http://www.wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/profiles/Schramm http://www.wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/profiles/Schramm