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  • Speaker series kicks off with athlete Suzy Favor Hamilton March 2, 2007 Olympic athlete and University of Wisconsin-Madison track star Suzy Favor Hamilton will be the featured speaker at the "Perspectives for Success Breakfast Series" on Wednesday, March 14 at the Memorial Union.
  • UW-Madison engineer to head DOE fusion energy office March 1, 2007 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has named a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor to lead its Office of Fusion Energy Science, located within the DOE Office of Science.
  • Symposium to link stem cell research, public policy Feb. 22, 2007 Public policy issues related to human embryonic stem cell research will be the topic of a half-day symposium co-sponsored by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the WiCell Research Institute on Friday, March 2.
  • State shortage of large animal veterinarians looms Feb. 22, 2007 In recent years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine has noted fewer of its students enrolling in food animal courses. Looking ahead, that could cause problems for the state's dairy industry as fewer veterinarians are available to meet their herds' health needs.
  • Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery seed grant winners named Feb. 21, 2007 The research program of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gets underway today (Feb. 21), as officials announce the results of a campus-wide competition for the institutes' Discovery Seed Grants.
  • National Entrepreneurship Week recognized on campus Feb. 21, 2007 The Office of Corporate Relations (OCR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a number of programs for Entrepreneurship Week USA, a national effort to inspire and encourage young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice and to celebrate America's unique culture of inventiveness.
  • National experts brief area business leaders on economic outlook Feb. 21, 2007 Four leading economists will share their insights and predictions for local, regional, national and international economies and financial markets for the remainder of 2007 and beyond at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Economic Outlook Conference on Friday, March 16, at the Fluno Center in Madison.
  • Theater students breathe life into Raven software Feb. 19, 2007 In the studios of Raven Software Inc., Middleton's fast-growing video gaming company, UW-Madison theater graduate Carrie Coon is working through a wildly athletic motion capture regimen - with bullet-dodges, head-kicks, dive rolls and back flips - that will become the raw material for a new femme fatale: an elite-force assassin. Raven's need for a strong base of acting talent led to a unique partnership now in its second year between the company and the UW-Madison theater program.
  • Nanoscale packaging could aid delivery of cancer-fighting drugs Feb. 15, 2007 A University of Wisconsin-Madison pharmacy professor aims to improve the delivery of cancer-fighting drugs by targeting them more selectively to tumors and boosting their solubility in water.
  • Dean: Biosciences can transform state economy Feb. 14, 2007 Few people have a better firsthand take on the value of university-industry collaboration than Molly Jahn, dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
  • Hidden gems: New composites are stiffer than diamond Feb. 14, 2007 Using a unique combination of barium titanate and tin, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have made the first known material that's stiffer than diamond.
  • Nanotechnology meets biology and DNA finds its groove Feb. 8, 2007 UW-Madison scientists have developed a quick, inexpensive and efficient method to extract single DNA molecules and position them in nanoscale troughs or "slits," where they can be easily analyzed and sequenced. The technique, which according to its developers is simple and scalable, could lead to faster and vastly more efficient sequencing technology in the lab, and may one day help underpin the ability of clinicians to obtain customized DNA profiles of patients.
  • UW real estate center to be named for real estate legend James A. Graaskamp Feb. 6, 2007 Almost 600 alumni and friends have generated nearly $11 million in donations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Real Estate, which will be renamed in honor of the late James A. Graaskamp, a legendary figure in real estate education.
  • UW-Madison accounting students win national tax competition again Feb. 2, 2007 For the third time in five years, a team of accounting students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business has won a national case competition.
  • Falling milk prices cause tough 2006 for Wisconsin farmers, report says Feb. 2, 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists have released their Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report for 2006.
  • Undergraduate invention competitions slated for Feb 8-9 Feb. 1, 2007 Ski bindings, a reclining wheelchair, digital window-front advertising, a page-turning machine and an online community are rarely found in the same context. But they and 15 other inventions, all conceived and built by University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students, will be the center of attention at the annual UW-Madison Innovation Days competitions, to be held Feb. 8-9 in the Mechanical Engineering Building on the College of Engineering campus.
  • Finding may unshackle the potential of composite materials Jan. 31, 2007 In an advance that could lead to composite materials with virtually limitless performance capabilities, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist has dispelled a 50-year-old theoretical notion that composite materials must be made only of "stable" individual materials to be stable overall.
  • McKenna selected to head veterinary diagnostic lab Jan. 31, 2007 Thomas McKenna, an animal disease expert with 12 years experience dealing with the implications of livestock diseases at the national and international level, has been chosen to head the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
  • UW students become ambassadors to the world through AIESEC Jan. 30, 2007 In a time of constant reminders of the need to learn about developing countries and cooperate globally, members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of AIESEC — the largest student-based organization on the planet — have become ambassadors to the world.
  • WARF's director named to national patent advisory committee Jan. 25, 2007 The leader of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has become the first person from a university patent management office to serve on a committee that helps guide the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).