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- UW-Madison retains top five R&D ranking Aug. 11, 2006 The University of Wisconsin-Madison remains the fourth largest research university in the country as measured by the amount of money spent on research and development, according to statistics released this week by the National Science Foundation.
- MATC, UW collaborate on biodiesel fuel reactor Aug. 7, 2006 Madison Area Technical College today dedicated its new biodiesel reactor, built in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to produce motor fuel blended from waste vegetable oil and methanol.
- Autonomous lenses may bring microworld into focus Aug. 2, 2006 University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found a way to make a tiny lens so "smart" that it can adapt its focal length from minus infinity to plus infinity — without external control.
- Marketing faculty earn national attention July 25, 2006 Marketing professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business continue to gain national recognition for the strength of their research.
- New MRI technique quickly builds 3-D images of knees July 25, 2006 A faster magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data-acquisition technique, developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will cut the time many patients spend in a cramped magnetic resonance scanner, yet deliver more precise 3-D images of their bodies.
- Research dishes out flexible computer chips July 18, 2006 New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials.
- UW-Madison's CIAS receives grant to boost mid-sized farms July 17, 2006
- Health economist takes over as director of La Follette School July 13, 2006 Health economist Barbara Wolfe has succeeded the retiring Donald Nichols as director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
- Top prize for research on corporate finance goes to Wisconsin professor July 10, 2006 Toni M. Whited, an associate professor of finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, co-authored the best paper on corporate finance published in the Journal of Finance in 2005.
- Morgridge discovery grants spark creative, collaborative proposals for research June 29, 2006 Response to the effort by John and Tashia Morgridge to jump-start the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery by providing $3 million in seed grants for research has exceeded expectations, generating more than 220 initial proposals.
- WisBusiness.com: Study to track genealogy of UW's start-up companies June 26, 2006
- Concrete Canoe Team takes fourth consecutive national championship June 21, 2006 The UW-Madison Concrete Canoe team was only an hour’s drive away from Stillwater, Oklahoma — the national competition site — when the trailer hauling its 162-pound, 21-foot-long canoe, Forward, blew a tire.
- Three finalists named for top hygiene lab post June 19, 2006 A national search has yielded three candidates for the top position at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, the state agency responsible for safeguarding public health in Wisconsin.
- Financial well-being varies from farm to farm June 13, 2006 How a farm family fares financially depends not only on how much it earns from farming, but also on how much it relies on that income, according to agricultural economist Ed Jesse, writing in Status of Wisconsin Agriculture 2006.
- Wisconsin dairy barns are a bit fuller this year June 13, 2006 Some Wisconsin dairy cows may find themselves with less elbow room this year. The number of dairy cows in the state grew by 3,000 last year. This was only the second year since 1985 that Wisconsin’s dairy herd didn’t shrink (the other was 1994). From 1985-2001, Wisconsin lost an average of 33,000 cows per year.
- Hybrid-vehicle team places second nationally June 8, 2006 Tired of high gas costs and poor sport utility vehicle (SUV) fuel efficiency? A group of engineering students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has spent the last three years building one of the cleanest and most fuel-efficient SUVs in North America. The principles behind the vehicle, appropriately named the "Moovada," could one day be incorporated into mass-production hybrid SUVs.
- Prominent WARF patent expert wins prestigious national award June 2, 2006 Patent lawyer Howard Bremer, a pioneer in university-based technology transfer, is the 2006 winner of the Jefferson Award, an annual recognition of outstanding contributors to intellectual property law in the United States.
- Engineer named chief scientist for international fusion experiment June 1, 2006
- WICGI's Taiwan Conference Praised May 22, 2006
- Wisconsin Alumnus Named to FASB May 17, 2006