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• UW-Madison School of Music selects architect Nov. 22, 2010 The New York City firm of Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, in association with Madison, Wis.-based Strang Inc., has been selected by the state of Wisconsin to design the new University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music Performance Center.
• Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging Nov. 18, 2010 A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues describe a molecular pathway that is a key determinant of the aging process.
• UW-Madison researchers win White House science awards Nov. 15, 2010 Two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are among the country's most promising young researchers, according to the White House.
• Embryonic stem cell culturing grows from art to science Nov. 14, 2010 Growing human embryonic stem cells in the lab is no small feat. Culturing the finicky, shape-shifting cells is labor intensive and, in some ways, more art than exact science.
• UW-Madison scholar tapped to lead American Historical Association Nov. 12, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison historian William Cronon has been elected president of the American Historical Association, a position considered one of the highest honors in the profession.
• World Languages Day inspires high school students to explore Nov. 11, 2010 Since World Languages Day began in 2002, renowned professor Harold Scheub has roused the crowd with his tales of crossing the African continent in search of stories and folk tales.
• Trove of Taiwanese classic films donated to UW-Madison Nov. 10, 2010 New 35mm prints of 30 of some of the most celebrated Chinese-language feature films have been donated to the University of Wisconsin-Madison by various film studios in Taiwan with the help of the Taiwanese government.
• Zimmerman wins UW System teaching award Nov. 8, 2010
• Expanding croplands chipping away at world’s carbon stocks Nov. 1, 2010 Nature's capacity to store carbon, the element at the heart of global climate woes, is steadily eroding as the world's farmers expand croplands at the expense of native ecosystem such as forests.
• Chemists concoct new agents to easily study critical cell proteins Nov. 1, 2010 They are the portals to the cell, gateways through which critical signals and chemicals are exchanged between living cells and their environments.
• Students move future of transportation forward Nov. 1, 2010 Alumni and a student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's La Follette School of Public Affairs are advancing discussion of transportation options that use less energy, and emit fewer pollutants and greenhouse gases by helping to organize the Energy Hub conference Friday, Nov. 5.
• Tracing the ‘blurry line’ between hospital and at-home care Oct. 26, 2010 When patients come home from the hospital after major surgery or a transplant, they often are not well enough to care for themselves, and more importantly, have complex medical needs that need to be monitored by others.
• Study: Mountain vegetation impacted by climate change Oct. 25, 2010 Climate change has had a significant effect on mountain vegetation at low elevations in the past 60 years, according to a study done by the University of California at Davis, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and U.S. Geological Survey.
• Peace of mind closes health gap for less educated Oct. 25, 2010 Psychological well-being is powerful enough to counteract the pull of socioeconomic status on the long-term health of the disadvantaged, according to a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Q&A: Professor examines those ‘outside the color lines’ in new book Oct. 20, 2010 In her new book, “Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South,” Bow examines what segregation demanded of people who did not fall into the category of black or white — including Asians, American Indians and people of mixed race.
• Plant family tree may help identify species vulnerable to invaders, climate change Oct. 18, 2010 Change has been the norm for Wisconsin's forests over the last 50 years, and the next 50 are unlikely to pass quietly.
• Curiosities: Why do some planets have rings? Oct. 18, 2010
• Music education conference focuses on race and equity issues Oct. 18, 2010 The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host the first conference of CRÈME International, the International Consortium on Equity in Music Education, from Oct. 20-23.
• Invasive shrubs increase spread of tick-borne disease Oct. 11, 2010 For a hungry tick, bush honeysuckle is as good as a drive-through.
• Large study shows females are equal to males in math skills Oct. 11, 2010 The mathematical skills of boys and girls, as well as men and women, are substantially equal, according to a new examination of existing studies in the current online edition of journal Psychological Bulletin.