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• UW researcher reports kidney transplant finding Dec. 3, 1998 Kidney transplants between siblings with slightly different tissue types are as much as 28 percent more likely to survive long-term when maternal tissue types are used to determine the donor, a new study from the UW Medical School suggests.
• Pediatrician nurtures growth of ethics program Dec. 1, 1998 Thanks in no small measure to Norman Fost's continuing leadership, medical ethics is widely appreciated as a highly relevant field with the potential to profoundly affect individual lives as well as national policy.
• UW research effort bringing emotions into focus Nov. 25, 1998 The scientific study of emotion, an area once considered too 'soft' for serious inquiry, is developing a solid future at UW-Madison.
• Law professor pursues theology, restorative justice Nov. 23, 1998 Bruce Kittle belongs to a select group of lawyers: those with seminary degrees.
• Professor finds that in shirts, as well as skin, color matters Nov. 23, 1998 Prejudice strikes most people as a learned behavior, but a study of grade school kids exposes prejudice as a much cagier beast, waiting to rear its head at the slightest provocation.
• Stem cell research captures world attention Nov. 20, 1998 The international spotlight focused on James Thomson with the news Nov. 6 that his team had cultured human embryonic stem cells in the laboratory.
• Campus-community project examines childhood asthma Nov. 18, 1998 A new Madison project doesn't involve higher taxes or a referendum, but it does require a positive pregnancy test and a history of allergies or asthma.
• New UW consortium helping steer electronic commerce Nov. 17, 1998 A new consortium developed by UW-Madison engineer Raj Veeramani provides companies with an unbiased resource when navigating the new landscape of electronic commerce.
• UW-Madison engineers design new disabled-access bike Nov. 16, 1998 What started as a challenge to improve disabled access for a local outdoor recreation club put a team of UW-Madison engineers on the road to a better bike.
• UW chemist enters a clash of corporate titans Nov. 10, 1998 As far as epic battles go, UW-Madison chemist Charles Casey's work this summer on a high-stakes legal battle between Dow Chemical and Exxon Corp. falls in the realm of Goliath vs. Goliath.
• Grant funds study with community organizations Nov. 10, 1998 A two-year federal grant will help a team of UW-Madison researchers join forces with community organizations in Dane County to identify the service needs of women with substance abuse and mental health problems who are victims of violence.
• Golf course development study finds surprises Nov. 6, 1998 Stephen Malpezzi, a real estate professor in the School of Business, has developed a statistical model explaining the demand for golf based on economic and demographic variables.
• Wisconsin scientists culture elusive embryonic stem cells Nov. 6, 1998 The dream of one day being able to grow in the laboratory an unlimited amount of human tissues for transplantation is one step closer to reality.
• Embryonic Stem Cell Fact Sheet Nov. 5, 1998 Embryonic stem cell facts
• The China question Oct. 30, 1998 Considering the Chinese as essentially and forever authoritarian - as many Westerners do - denies the complexity of culture and its capacity for change, says one of the nation's leading Sinologists.
• NSF awards grant for plant gene study Oct. 30, 1998 Two UW-Madison molecular biologists will receive $1.8 million over three years to help develop a system to rapidly identify the function of genes specific to plants.
• UW joins breast cancer diagnosis study Oct. 26, 1998 Diagnosing some suspicious breast tumors could become simpler and more reliable through a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) approach being tested at UW Hospital and Clinics as part of an international study announced October 22.
• Historic impeachment proceedings won't shape election outcome, say UW's political experts Oct. 23, 1998 The avalanche of political commercials might make you feel as if you know Tommy and Tammy and all the other election candidates better than your neighbor ö and with good reason.
• NSF grants recognize integrative innovation in graduate education Oct. 23, 1998 A UW-Madison professor is one of 17 researchers across the country who have received a total of $40.5 million over five years to promote integrative graduate education and research training.
• Hubble captures Neptune's stormy disposition Oct. 14, 1998 Using powerful ground- and space-based telescopes, scientists have obtained a moving look at some of the wildest, weirdest weather in the solar system - that of Neptune.