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• Christensen gift funds economics chair March 25, 2009 Laurits (Lau) Christensen, chair of the economic and engineering consulting firm Christensen Associates of Madison, has established a named faculty chair in the Department of Economics.
• Anthropologist coaxes stories, history from skeletons and their genetics March 24, 2009 Five questions with …John Hawks
• Regional English dictionary closes in on ultimate milestone March 23, 2009 Meandering its merry way through new submissions such as “whiffle-minded,” “whirligust,” “whistle punk” and “williwags,” the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) project is now tantalizingly close to completing a mission more than four decades in the making.
• Optimum running speed is stride toward understanding human body form March 19, 2009 Runners, listen up: If your body is telling you that your pace feels a little too fast or a little too slow, it may be right.
• Teeth of Columbus’s crew flesh out tale of new world discovery March 19, 2009 The adage that dead men tell no tales has long been disproved by archaeology.
• Leading religious scholar to speak on campus March 18, 2009 Professor Alan Wolfe, founding director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College, will deliver a plenary address, "Who's Afraid of American Religion," as part of the conference on "Religion and the State."
• Arthur D. Code, pioneering space astronomer, dies March 16, 2009 Arthur D. Code, whose lifelong love of the stars and the night sky led to a meteoric career in astrophysics, died in Madison, Wis., on March 11 after a long illness. He was 85.
• Christensen gift funds UW-Madison economics chair March 12, 2009 Laurits (Lau) Christensen, chair of the economic and engineering consulting firm Christensen Associates of Madison, has established a named faculty chair in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Economics.
• Concert highlights chemistry between science, music March 9, 2009 The Science, Arts and Humanities Program of the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will present its inaugural concert, "Concert at Chemistry," at 1:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, in Room 1315 of the Daniels Chemistry Building, 1101 University Ave.
• Evolution, ecosystems may buffer some species against climate change March 5, 2009 Although ecologists expect many species will be harmed by climate change, some species could be buffered by their potential to evolve or by changes in their surrounding ecosystems.
• Social Security expert: Modest changes may offer more protection Feb. 26, 2009 UW–Madison sociologist Pamela Herd has been a scholar of Social Security for more than a decade, but her most poignant lesson may have come from her own mother’s experience last fall.
• IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole Feb. 25, 2009 As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011.
• New history course on U.S. ‘grand strategy’ reaches out to modern military leaders Feb. 24, 2009 If ignorance of history makes one more likely to repeat it, as the saying goes, then the stakes of historical knowledge are at their highest when involving military strategy and war.
• Lawyer to share experiences representing Guantánamo detainees Feb. 24, 2009 Jeff Colman, a 1970 history graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will visit campus Monday, March 9, and give a free public talk about his experience representing prisoners held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
• Lovely ‘snowfakes’ mimic nature, advance science Feb. 24, 2009 Exquisitely detailed and beautifully symmetrical, the snowflakes that David Griffeath makes are icy jewels of art.
• UW faculty recognized by American Academy of Microbiology Feb. 23, 2009 Two members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are among 72 scientists from around the world who have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology.
• Four faculty awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships Feb. 20, 2009 Four members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are among 118 scientists, mathematicians and economists from around the country who have been awarded prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.
• Graduate student wins national leadership award Feb. 18, 2009 A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student has received a prestigious national award recognizing future leaders in higher education.
• French master’s program opens doors to work opportunity Feb. 17, 2009 The Professional French Masters Program at UW-Madison is one of the only program in the country that offers a graduate degree that combines language skills with study in other academic areas.
• Researchers cite President's role in reducing racism Feb. 16, 2009 President Obama spurred a dramatic change in the way whites think about African-Americans before he had even set foot in the Oval Office, according to a new study.