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• Stage fright is not an issue for Shakhashiri Dec. 10, 2009 On Dec. 6, Shakashiri wrapped up the 40th year of his wildly popular Christmas lecture with two packed performances of “Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri.”
• Project helps seniors put lives on paper Dec. 8, 2009 A UW-Madison graduate student leads a workshop that will ultimately help participants at the Madison Senior Center write their own life stories.
• Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide ramps up aspen growth Dec. 4, 2009 The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change. It could also be making some trees grow like crazy.
• UW-Madison graduate wins Marshall Scholarship Dec. 4, 2009 A UW-Madison alumna has been named one of 35 Marshall Scholars.
• Rocks, crystals, fossils headline sale at Geology Museum Dec. 2, 2009 Unique gifts for people fascinated by the beauty of nature will be on sale at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum for one day only, Friday, Dec. 4.
• Giant collider back in gear, sets record for collision intensity Dec. 2, 2009 On Nov. 30, the world's largest scientific instrument, the Large Hadron Collider, set a record when it smashed one stream of protons against another and then accelerated the beams to 1.18 trillion electron volts, exceeding the record held by Fermilab in Illinois since 2001.
• NACLO competition introduces students to computational linguistics Dec. 1, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer Sciences will host local high-school and middle-school participants in the 2010 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) open competition.
• Latest Badger Poll results to be released Nov. 30, 2009 The results of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Badger Poll will be released this week.
• Exhibit explores state of science at time of Darwin’s book Nov. 23, 2009 “Science Circa 1859: On the Eve of Darwin’s Origin of Species,” opening Monday, Nov. 23, in the Department of Special Collections at Memorial Library, explores the state of science before Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking book arrived on the scene 150 years ago.
• Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow Nov. 19, 2009 Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.
• Sweet corn story begins in UW-Madison lab Nov. 19, 2009 This week, scientists are revealing the genetic instructions inside corn, one of the big three cereal crops. Corn, or maize, has one of the most complex sequences of DNA ever analyzed, says University of Wisconsin-Madison genomicist David Schwartz, who was one of more than 100 authors in the article in the journal Science.
• After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape Nov. 19, 2009 Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals - including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers - began their precipitous slide to extinction.
• 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.
• Foundation funds fellowship, research of faculty members Nov. 16, 2009 Two La Follette School of Public Affairs faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have received honors from the William T. Grant Foundation to advance the well-being of families and children.
• UW-Madison exposition to feature high-tech mapping Nov. 16, 2009 Experts from around Wisconsin will show off the latest in technologies and projects that use high-tech mapping tools called geographic information systems (GIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday, Nov. 20.
• Warmer means windier on world's biggest lake Nov. 16, 2009 Rising water temperatures are kicking up more powerful winds on Lake Superior, with consequences for currents, biological cycles, pollution and more on the world's largest lake and its smaller brethren.
• UW exposition to feature high-tech mapping Nov. 16, 2009
• Study: Can meditation sharpen our attention? Nov. 13, 2009 A new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that people can train their minds to stay focused.
• UW-Madison students foster community development on island in Uganda Nov. 12, 2009 Eleven University of Wisconsin-Madison students working on an island in Uganda's Lake Victoria knew they were making a difference when a member of the country's parliament came to check out the fledgling girls' soccer team they had helped put together.
• UW-Madison computer team heads to world finals for ninth straight year Nov. 11, 2009 A computer team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison got official notification on Nov. 10 that it will be heading to Harbin, China, for the world championship in February.