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  • New course shows arts students how to become entrepreneurs Nov. 11, 2009 Entrepreneurship programs at UW–Madison are supporting innovative thinking and actions. The Wiscontrepreneur program, the Student Venture Seed Grant Program, programs at the Wisconsin School of Business, and other programs and initiatives, recently garnered the university recognition as one of the nation’s top 25 campuses for entrepreneurship.
  • Photo of mouse listening Now hear this: Mouse study sheds light on hearing loss in older adults Nov. 9, 2009 Becoming "hard of hearing" is a standard but unfortunate part of aging: A syndrome called age-related hearing loss affects about 40 percent of people over 65 in the United States, and will afflict an estimated 28 million Americans by 2030.
  • More than 700 Wisconsin students to attend World Languages Day Nov. 5, 2009 For some of Laura Koebel's students at Plymouth High School, "ethnic" food means a Hawaiian pizza. So an excursion to an East African restaurant such as Buraka, on State Street, is the perfect way to cap off their trip to World Languages Day.
  • Woodrow Wilson History professor writes definitive Woodrow Wilson biography Nov. 5, 2009 After a meteoric rise to the nation’s highest office, a new president working to make major structural changes to government and the economy enjoys majorities in Congress, but faces an unwillingness from opponents to cooperate with him.
  • Time reporter analyzes Obama administration Nov. 3, 2009 Time magazine's Mark Halperin, one of the nation's most influential political journalists, will discuss the Obama administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday, Nov. 4, the same day that the president is scheduled to visit the city.
  • Economist takes on global debt crisis in classroom, book, blog Oct. 29, 2009 As the financial markets melted down last fall, University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Menzie Chinn says he was surprised not only by the depth of the economic downturn that set in, but also by the certainty of Monday-morning quarterbacking from observers of the government's response to the crisis.
  • Publicity photo from Imaginary Invalid University Theatre explores obsessions, love in comedy, tragedy Oct. 28, 2009 Class and politics, unhealthy obsessions and forbidden love are common themes explored in two productions being staged by University Theatre this semester.
  • Alfonso Morales Street markets are this professor’s laboratory Oct. 28, 2009 Alfonso Morales didn’t sit in a library to do research for his graduate degrees. Instead, he worked as a vendor in Chicago’s famed Maxwell Street Market, where he saw firsthand that public markets serve as fertile ground for entrepreneurs and new businesses, gathering places for communities and an entry point into the economy and society for new arrivals to the United States.
  • UW-Madison students, faculty part of community news project Oct. 26, 2009 The debate over health care reform has dominated national headlines for most of the summer and fall.
  • Project CRYSTAL brings middle-school students to UW-Madison lab Oct. 22, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry professor Hazel Holden and Edgewood Campus School middle-school science teacher Daniel Toomey met for the first time because Holden's daughter was in Toomey's science class.
  • MathBio looks at ‘best picture’ Oct. 21, 2009 If 2008’s inaugural MathBio Symposium was a big-picture look at collaboration, the focus of this year’s symposium is on the best picture.
  • Alumni Peace Corps volunteers share their lifelong passion for language Oct. 15, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is the country's second-highest producer of Peace Corps volunteers. Now, two distinguished alumni share how the languages they studied as UW-Madison students languages not only helped them in the Peace Corps but influenced their personal and professional lives beyond their Peace Corps service.
  • Kindle Digital reading technology makes its way into UW-Madison classrooms Oct. 13, 2009 Alongside music, television and the news media, books are surging into the new technology era with digital reading devices.
  • Suomi and Parent with satellite Satellite anniversary marks 50 years of studying climate from space Oct. 13, 2009 On Oct. 13, 1959, University of Wisconsin-Madison professors Verner Suomi and Robert Parent crouched in a bunker at Cape Canaveral, sweating through the countdown for the Juno II rocket perched on its launching pad 150 yards away.
  • Banded rock Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes Oct. 11, 2009 The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth more than 2 billion years ago.
  • Instrumentation experiment Scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos Oct. 9, 2009 In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where the needle points north.
  • Image of sand dunes in China Sand dunes reveal unexpected dryness during heavy monsoon Oct. 6, 2009 The windswept deserts of northern China might seem an odd destination for studying the heavy monsoon rains that routinely drench the more tropical regions of Southeast Asia.
  • Models begin to unravel how single DNA strands combine Oct. 5, 2009 Using computer simulations, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has identified some of the pathways through which single complementary strands of DNA interact and combine to form the double helix.
  • New York Times reporter to be science writer in residence Oct. 5, 2009 Andrew Revkin, New York Times science reporter and the fall science writer in residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present a public talk on Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Plenary Room, 1310 Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave.
  • Wisconsin cautious about Obama health care plan; Milwaukee poised for reform Oct. 4, 2009 More Wisconsinites oppose President Barack Obama's health care plan than support it, according to a new poll that also shows a majority of Milwaukee County residents favor a mayoral takeover of the Milwaukee Public Schools.