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• Business ethicist's ledger tallies life decisions Sept. 1, 1999 Though the outcome of unethical decisions can be macro, a la Texaco, they have an exceedingly micro origin: the hearts and minds of individuals. And that's where Laura Hartman and her eight-week MBA module on business ethics fit in.
• Physics team studies atomic life at 'absolute zero' Aug. 31, 1999 With a lab full of lasers to corral and chill atoms, physicist Thad Walker is plunging into the frigid domain of "absolute zero." It's not just cold there. It's weird.
• Vertical wind shear field over the Atlantic Aug. 27, 1999
• Image from the Wavetrak product over the Atlantic Aug. 27, 1999
• A multi-channel satellite image composite of Hurricane Floyd Aug. 27, 1999
• Study details genetic basis of aging -- and how it might be delayed Aug. 26, 1999 Scientists at UW-Madison have, for the first time, profiled specific genetic changes during the aging of experimental animals, a discovery that could aid work to extend life span and preserve health.
• Advances Aug. 24, 1999
• Study: Step-by-step dairy expansion pays off Aug. 23, 1999 A study by dairy economist Bruce Jones suggests that farmers who are considering a major dairy expansion should start by retrofitting their old stanchion dairy barns into dounle-six parlors rather than building a full-size milking parlor.
• Volunteers needed for schizophrenia study Aug. 13, 1999 For aging families who have an adult son or daughter with schizophrenia, the unpredictable disease heightens fears about the future. A new study hopes to change that fact by better understanding the needs of these families.
• Study: Tax cut benefits polluters, ignores environment Aug. 13, 1999 Congressional passage of a $790 billion federal tax cut has an enormous price tag for the environment, according to a new study by UW-Madison's Center on Wisconsin Strategy and Washington, D.C.-based Friends of the Earth.
• The other red meats: UW to study alternatives Aug. 10, 1999 A team of researchers will study ways to improve marketing and processing of alternative red-meat animals including ratites, such as ostriches, emu and rhea; farm-raised red deer and fallow deer; and bison.
• New book explores what workers want Aug. 5, 1999 What do workers want? University professor Joel Rogers answers that question in a new book based on the most extensive workplace survey of the last 20 years.
• Psychologists study new way to treat depression Aug. 5, 1999 The standard treatments for depression do not work for millions of people who suffer from the condition. But Medical School psychologists are studying a promising new approach that may greatly improve the odds.
• New technique can create flu viruses Aug. 3, 1999 A research team has perfected a method for creating designer influenza viruses, which can be tailor-made to solve mysteries about how flu strains mutate, spread and cause illness.
• Mushrooms cripple herpes, other viruses Aug. 3, 1999 Rainforests and other remote, undeveloped spots on the planet arenât the sole source of medically useful plants. Researchers at the Medical School have discovered a mushroom that grows in their own "backyard" can cripple certain viruses.
• Cells show capacity for mending nervous system July 29, 1999 Using stem cells grown in the laboratory, scientists have successfully transplanted those cells into the nervous systems of ailing rats and arrested the course of a debilitating congenital disease.
• Boom in Blooms: Wild flowers thrive in area this summer July 23, 1999 Dennis Stimart, UW-Madison horticulture professor, says two straight years of exceedingly mild Wisconsin winters are helping native wild flowers run wild.
• Law School examines use of video in sex abuse cases July 23, 1999 A study underway at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School is examining the use of video technology to protect child victims in sexual-abuse prosecutions.
• $6.75 million to extend primate studies of diet and aging July 22, 1999 A decade-long study of how diet affects the process of growing old, will continue and be expanded at the UW-Madison with the help of $6.75 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• The Biomarkers of Aging July 22, 1999 The biomarkers of aging are a set of bodily functions and conditions that tend to change with age. They are the same in humans as they are in non-human primates such as rhesus macaques.