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  • Energy Institute engages stakeholders in creative solutions Nov. 16, 2006 The new University of Wisconsin-Madison Energy Institute is leveraging several renowned UW-Madison energy education and research programs in its unique, multidisciplinary approach to understanding and addressing key global energy issues.
  • Raj Veeramani: Getting down to e-business in Wisconsin Nov. 16, 2006 When he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992, industrial and systems engineering Professor Raj Veeramani went on a statewide bus tour for new faculty. His interactions with state residents - from students at inner-city Milwaukee schools to rural dairy farmers and members of the Oneida nation - made a deep impression that continues to guide his activities as a professor.
  • Conference links university, Latino community Nov. 14, 2006 The Steering Committee of the Latina/o Faculty Staff Association (LAFSA) will host a conference, "Connecting Resources: the Latino/a community and UW-Madison," on Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Memorial Union.
  • Top investment managers named distinguished business alumni Nov. 3, 2006 Phill Gross and Paul Leff have been named winners of the Distinguished Business Alumnus Awards given by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
  • La Follette School hosts 900 public policy experts Nov. 1, 2006 The Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will welcome more than 900 public policy experts to a national conference this week at the Monona Terrace Convention Center.
  • Kastenmeier Lecture focuses on tech transfer, national science policy Oct. 26, 2006 The importance of landmark federal patent legislation to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and to an effective national science policy is the topic of the 2006 Kastenmeier Lecture at the UW-Madison Law School on Friday, Nov. 3.
  • BusinessWeek ranks Wisconsin MBA No. 4 for fastest payback Oct. 20, 2006 In its latest biennial ranking of MBA programs, BusinessWeek rates the Wisconsin MBA program No. 4 in the nation in terms of fastest return on students' investment. According to the magazine's findings, students who earn an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have their costs of going back to school repaid due to higher salaries in less than five years, compared to more than 15 years for other MBA programs.
  • Cisco chairman Morgridge to speak at Directors’ Summit Oct. 16, 2006 Cisco Systems chairman and former president and CEO John P. Morgridge will address corporate directors and officers during a keynote speech titled "Building Something Special: Governance at Cisco" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's annual Directors' Summit conference on Friday, Nov. 3.
  • UW-Madison joins massive Google Book project Oct. 12, 2006 The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google announced an agreement today to expand access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical books and documents from more than 7.2 million holdings at the UW-Madison Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library.
  • UW-Madison attracts Wisconsin’s top students Oct. 12, 2006 The University of Wisconsin-Madison has scored a major in-state recruiting coup, attracting the state's largest number of 2006 Wisconsin All-State Scholars.
  • Business school plans celebration for Grainger Hall addition Oct. 10, 2006 The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business will hold a kickoff ceremony to celebrate the start of the construction of a $40.5 million addition to Grainger Hall.
  • Forage specialists apply their expertise to bioenergy research Oct. 9, 2006 Michael Casler and Paul Weimer are experts on matters related to forage digestibility in dairy cows. So how did they end up doing research on use of biomass crops for ethanol production?
  • Charo elected to National Academy Oct. 9, 2006
  • Microbial “blueprint’”may unlock mysteries of wastewater treatment Oct. 6, 2006
  • New drug blocks influenza, including bird flu virus Oct. 4, 2006 Opening a new front in the war against flu, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have reported the discovery of a novel compound that confers broad protection against influenza viruses, including deadly avian influenza.
  • Bloomberg central bank columnist to visit Oct. 4, 2006 Bloomberg News columnist Caroline Baum, an award-winning analyst of Federal Reserve Bank policy and the nation's economy, will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison as this fall's Business Writer in Residence.
  • Study: Earlier crop plantings may curb future yields Oct. 4, 2006 In an ongoing bid to grow more corn, farmers in the U.S. Corn Belt are planting seeds much earlier today than they did 30 years ago, a new study has found. Poring over three decades of agricultural records, Christopher Kucharik, an associate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered that farmers in 12 U.S. states now put corn in the ground around two weeks earlier than they did during the late 1970s.
  • Intersection of business and research explored at CEO Summit Oct. 3, 2006 Three distinguished University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists will meet with corporate chief executives who graduated from the university to brief them on the business applications and marketability of their research on Saturday, Oct. 7.
  • Stem Cells 101: Meet Wisconsin’s research leaders Oct. 3, 2006 Southeastern Wisconsin residents will have a unique opportunity on Oct. 10 to hear about the promises and limitations of stem cell research directly from the Wisconsin professors and researchers working in the field.
  • ‘Failed’ experiment produces a bacterial Trojan horse Oct. 3, 2006 A failed experiment turned out to be anything but for bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz. As he was puzzling out why what should have been a routine procedure wouldn't work, he made a discovery that led to the creation of a new biological tool for destroying bacterial pathogens - one that doesn't appear to trigger antibiotic resistance.