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• Social media helps doctoral candidate reach out on research July 3, 2012 For researchers, describing complex science to folks outside their discipline can be a tricky or even unpleasant experience.
• Four UW–Madison students attending prestigious Nobel conference July 2, 2012
• War-related climate change would substantially reduce crop yields July 2, 2012 Though worries about “nuclear winter” have faded since the end of the Cold War, existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons still hold the potential for devastating global impacts. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Rutgers University have found that the climate effects of a hypothetical nuclear war between India and Pakistan would greatly reduce yields of staple crops, even in distant countries.
• Vision scientist Dr. David Gamm to lead UW Eye Research Institute June 29, 2012 Dr. David Gamm, whose lab is internationally known for deriving human retina cells and tissue-like structures from human stem cells, has been selected as director of the University of Wisconsin Eye Research Institute (ERI).
• Designing microbes that make energy-dense biofuels without sugar June 27, 2012 With metabolically engineered microorganisms hungry for levulinic acid, rather than sugar, a University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical and biological engineer aims to create more sustainable, cost-effective processes for converting biomass into high-energy-density hydrocarbon fuels.
• $27 million award bolsters research computing grid June 20, 2012 Every day researchers add another sea of data to an ocean of knowledge on the world around us - billions on top of billions of measurements, images and observations of the tiniest subatomic particles up to the movement of planets and stars.
• Modeling biofuel fitness for the sea June 19, 2012 With the help of a $2 million grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, mechanical engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will develop a tool to characterize the performance of a new class of alternative fuels that could be used in maritime vehicles such as submarines and aircraft carriers.
• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center marks first issued patent June 18, 2012 The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is marking the arrival of summer with a milestone: the first patent issued on the center's technology.
• National network innovation program builds on UW–Madison success June 14, 2012 Suman Banerjee's work finds plenty of happy users every day, but it's not every day the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer sciences professor helps inspire a national program supporting technical innovation.
• Fragile X gene’s prevalence suggests broader health risk June 14, 2012 The first U.S. population prevalence study of mutations in the gene that causes fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, suggests the mutation in the gene - and its associated health risks - may be more common than previously believed.
• 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.
• China visit aims to deepen Wisconsin’s engagement June 7, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward is leading a Wisconsin delegation to China, where he will inaugurate UW-Madison's first overseas outpost and participate in events aimed at deepening engagement with Chinese partners.
• Stress may delay brain development in early years June 6, 2012 Stress may affect brain development in children - altering growth of a specific piece of the brain and abilities associated with it - according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Wisconsin team reveals way to treat drug-resistant brain tumor cells June 4, 2012 New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains why the incurable brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is highly resistant to current chemotherapies.
• Transit of Venus a rare event June 1, 2012 On the evening of Tuesday, June 5, the planet Venus will cross the disk of the Sun in what astronomers call a "transit."
• Health care costs drop if adolescent substance abused use 12-step programs May 31, 2012 The use of 12-step programs, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, by adolescents with a history of drug and alcohol abuse not only reduces the risk of relapse but also leads to lower health care costs, according to research by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
• Breast stem cell research: Receptor teamwork required and a new pathway may be involved May 30, 2012 Breast-cancer researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that two related receptors in a robust signaling pathway must work together as a team to maintain normal activity in mammary stem cells.
• Wisconsin residents are living longer, but not better May 29, 2012 The good news is that we're living longer. The bad news? People in Wisconsin are reaching old age more overweight, less wealthy and still drinking too much alcohol.
• High-speed method to aid search for solar energy storage catalysts May 25, 2012 Eons ago, nature solved the problem of converting solar energy to fuels by inventing the process of photosynthesis.