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• Cheap, simple bacteria test could spare newborns deadly infections Nov. 1, 2012 For babies, the trip from the womb to the outside world is a transition from a blank, sterile slate to host for what will eventually be trillions of microscopic organisms.
• China Town Hall event focuses on impact of social media Oct. 25, 2012 While en route to Beijing in 2011 to assume his post as the new U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke stopped at a Starbucks in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to buy a cup of coffee. A Chinese-American businessman snapped a photo and posted it on Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter.
• UW–Madison students, faculty receive 2012-13 Fulbright Program grants Oct. 23, 2012 A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and faculty have received 2012-13 grants from the Fulbright Program, the country's flagship program for international educational exchange.
• Moroccan pioneer in women’s rights to speak on aftermath of Arab Spring Oct. 23, 2012 Fatima Sadiqi, who founded a women's organization working on family law reforms and women's rights in her native Morocco, will speak on "North African Women's Rights in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring" as this year's J. Jobe Soffa and Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa Distinguished International Visitor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• UW prof’s award-winning ‘Slow Violence’ gives voice to global struggle Oct. 18, 2012 The cover of Rob Nixon's new book features black smoke, drifting across a dreary cityscape.
• Seeing sound from all angles at Wisconsin Science Fest Sept. 26, 2012 Sound can be an incredibly powerful experience, able to dominate our attention, convey information, transport us from the here and now or add or relieve tension and emotion.
• UW-Madison joins initiative to provide language instruction for ROTC cadets Sept. 26, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined more than 25 other universities nationwide in an effort to help address the U.S. military's need for critical language specialists who understand foreign cultures and can communicate in regions of strategic and economic importance.
• Recent Sightings: Global perspective Sept. 25, 2012 During a Global House Party event at the University Club at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, Sept. 24, postdoctoral geography student Kevin Gibbons speaks about his 2004-2007 experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines.
• Wisconsin China Initiative welcomes new director, seeks new connections Sept. 24, 2012 The Wisconsin China Initiative (WCI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is ramping up efforts to engage with faculty and staff across campus to promote interests and coordinate activities in the Greater China region as Nicole Huang, professor of Chinese literature and visual culture, takes over as director.
• Global House Party to celebrate Peace Corps experiences, seek new volunteers Sept. 21, 2012 The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wisconsin-Madison and the Peace Corps Campus Recruiting Office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are hosting a Global House Party to celebrate the anniversary of congressional action to create the Peace Corps, share experiences and encourage future generations to carry on the strong Peace Corps tradition at UW-Madison and across Wisconsin.
• Mildred Fish-Harnack Lecture to feature women’s advocate Rashida Manjoo Sept. 10, 2012 Rashida Manjoo, an internationally recognized lawyer, teacher, and advocate who works to advance women's rights and human rights around the world, will deliver a major lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison next week.
• Chancellor's statement on the Sikh temple shootings Aug. 10, 2012 As the families of those slain at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek come together to grieve their painful loss today, we at UW-Madison extend our deepest and most heartfelt sympathies.
• UW–Madison welcomes third group of Chinese champions Aug. 6, 2012 Six world-class athletes arrived in Madison last weekend to become students in the Chinese Champions Program at UW-Madison.
• UW faculty, students aid African conservation efforts July 24, 2012 Faculty and students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison will lend their expertise to conservation efforts in central Africa as the first university member of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership.
• Two UW–Madison researchers build ties with Indonesia July 23, 2012 It took a trip halfway around the world to bring two University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists together.
• Four UW–Madison students attending prestigious Nobel conference July 2, 2012
• International students visit Schultz family farm June 22, 2012
• Business school partnership advances real estate program June 18, 2012 A new partnership agreement between the Wisconsin School of Business and the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) will bring some of the brightest students from Shanghai to Madison to study in the innovative Global Real Estate Master (GREM) program.
• Probe seeking life on Saturn’s moon earns student team a spot at international space conference June 13, 2012 Somewhere beneath as much as 30 miles of ice on the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, extraterrestrial life could be waiting to be discovered under a subglacial ocean. And a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering mechanics and astronautics students want to be the people who find it. For their senior design course, Alex Gonring, Capri Pearson, Samantha Robinson, Jake Rohrig and Tyler Van Fossen designed a mission that would take a probe from Earth to deep below Enceladus’ icy surface, where an array of science instruments would look for carbon-based life.
• In Shanghai, UW–Madison inaugurates first overseas office June 11, 2012 The UW–Madison Shanghai Innovation Office, which will serve as a focal point for the university’s growing engagement in China and across East Asia, has officially opened.