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• Advances Nov. 2, 1999
• A climate scientist applies computer models to his life Nov. 2, 1999 At the university, Jonathan Foley makes computer models to study what might happen if the human economy continues to emit greenhouse gases. Like hundreds of other climate scientists, he is deeply worried about global warming. Unlike most scientists, he carries that worry into his personal life.
• Fruits of inspiration: Recent WARF patents Nov. 2, 1999 During the past 75 years, WARF has built a reputation on some high-powered patents. Here's a sampling of a promising new generation of patents, in various stages of development by WARF.
• Checking tree stands improves hunter safety Nov. 1, 1999 As hunters head for the woods this fall, UW Hospital officials remind them: Tree stands can be a valuable tool for deer hunters, but they have the potential to cause a serious accident.
• Drug shows promise in fighting brain tumors Nov. 1, 1999 Early results from an ongoing cancer drug study shows that a new agent, Xcytrin , demonstrates a high response rate and is well-tolerated in patients with brain metastases - brain tumors that originate from cancer in another part of the body.
• Final fall enrollment exceeds 40,600 Oct. 26, 1999
• Conference to draw legion of retiree learners Oct. 26, 1999
• Parallel Press releases third book, poetry collection Oct. 26, 1999
• Biodiversity as insurance in the face of change Oct. 26, 1999
• Barbara Ehrenreich visits campus Oct. 26, 1999
• Chilean legislator/activist Letelier to give human rights speech Oct. 26, 1999
• Grant funds research on disability access Oct. 25, 1999 UW-Madison's Trace Research and Development Center has received $3.37 million for a project to make standard telecommunications systems more accessible for people who are older or disabled.
• Study: Bargaining doesn't inhibit grad education Oct. 20, 1999 Collective bargaining with graduate assistants doesn't interfere with the faculty's ability to instruct and advise those students, says the first national empirical study of collective bargaining's effects on faculty-student relationships.
• Advances Oct. 19, 1999
• Madison Dynamo Project seeks to recreate Earth's magnetic field in the laboratory Oct. 19, 1999 The finishing touches are being applied to a UW-Madison experiment that will attempt to recreate -- in a 1-meter-wide stainless steel sphere -- the same conditions that give rise to the self-perpetuating magnetic fields that exist in the Earth and virtually all other celestial objects from stars to galaxies.
• Sketch artist Oct. 19, 1999
• Researchers to study summer power failures Oct. 19, 1999 After a rash of power failures this summer caused headaches for millions of customers in some of the nation's major cities, two UW-Madison engineers at the Power Systems Research Engineering Center have joined a national effort to shed light on blackouts.
• Smoking relapse targeted in $9.9 million study Oct. 18, 1999 Using an array of technology that will include hand-held computers and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, research teams at the UW Medical School will launch a comprehensive assault on one of the most persistent problems in smoking cessation: relapse.
• Biodiversity as insurance in the face of change Oct. 13, 1999 A group of scientists from UW-Madison, writing in the Friday, Oct. 15, edition of the journal Science, suggests that biological diversity may be less important for an ecosystem's health than how individual animals, plants or microbes respond to environmental change.
• Alumni donate $3.6 million to applied security analysis center Oct. 12, 1999 The finance alumni of the School of Business have raised more than $3.6 million to name a center in honor of a former professor. The Stephen L. Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, being dedicated on Friday, Oct. 15, will include the business school's nationally known applied security analysis program.