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• UW scientists probe, attack late blight in potatoes Aug. 31, 2012 As the annual potato harvest begins, Wisconsin farmers continue to check their fields for late blight, the ferocious plant disease that caused the 1848 Irish potato famine and fueled massive emigration from Ireland.
• Resistance in the ghettoes: New explanation focuses on history, political experience Aug. 30, 2012 What drives some people to succumb to oppression while others fight back? Is it culture, willpower, luck or experience? In a new study of Jewish resistance to Nazi genocide in Poland and the Soviet Union, Evgeny Finkel roots the answer in experience.
• Summer’s no snooze on campus Aug. 30, 2012 Campus is not dormant during the summer. Though they may not quite match the hustle and bustle of the fall and spring semesters, the summer months are filled with activity at UW–Madison.
• UW plans new research and teaching facilities to support dairy, meat and poultry processors Aug. 27, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving ahead with a $75-million initiative to upgrade research and teaching facilities to support the industries that make some of the state's most iconic agricultural products.
• UW–Madison researchers expanding study on human resilience Aug. 27, 2012 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute on Aging are studying how adults overcome social and economic challenges and whether it matters for their health, with a special focus on human resilience in the face of adversity.
• Researchers explore a sustainable bio-based chemical economy Aug. 23, 2012 With cyanobacteria, carbon dioxide and sunlight, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers aims to create a sustainable alternative source of commodity chemicals currently derived from an ever-decreasing supply of fossil fuels.
• West Nile's 'super spreader:' How about the American robin? Aug. 23, 2012 The 2012 outbreak of West Nile virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promises to be the largest since the disease was first detected in the United States 13 years ago.
• Morgridge Institute's Velten named a top young innovator Aug. 22, 2012 Andreas Velten, an associate scientist with the Morgridge Institute for Research, has been recognized by MIT’s Technology Review as a TR35 honoree for 2012.
• Compounds shown to thwart stubborn pathogen's social propensity Aug. 21, 2012 Acinetobacter baumanni, a pathogenic bacterium that is a poster child of deadly hospital acquired infections, is one tough customer.
• Eight faculty named to WARF professorships Aug. 21, 2012 Eight members of the UW–Madison faculty have been appointed to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation named professorships in 2012.
• Sunflowers inspire more efficient solar power system Aug. 15, 2012 A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sky through an adaptation called heliotropism.
• Research shows how computation can predict group conflict Aug. 13, 2012 When conflict breaks out in social groups, individuals make strategic decisions about how to behave based on their understanding of alliances and feuds in the group.
• Million-dollar Keck Foundation grant funds UW-Madison genome research Aug. 8, 2012 An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to fund research into creating synthetic genome "foundries."
• Learning machines scour Twitter in service of bullying research Aug. 1, 2012 UW-Madison researchers have been teaching computers to scour the endless feed of posts on Twitter for mentions of bullying events.
• Forget blizzards and hurricanes, heat waves are deadliest Aug. 1, 2012 In the pantheon of deadly weather events, heat waves rule.
• High-tech silver dressings ward off infection in wounds July 31, 2012 Applied onto the business end of artificial skin, nanofilms that release antibacterial silver over time can eradicate bacteria in full-thickness skin wounds in mice.
• Collaborative computing, pioneered at UW–Madison, helped drive LHC analysis July 31, 2012 When scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced the appearance of a new particle among the pieces of smashed protons, Miron Livny saw a huge scientific success.
• Uhlrich to oversee campus research policy July 31, 2012 Daniel Uhlrich, a professor of neuroscience in the School of Medicine and Public Health, has been appointed associate vice chancellor for research policy.
• New book by UW lecturer examines legacy of activist incident July 30, 2012 Growing up in Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, UW-Madison lecturer Shawn Peters can't remember the first time he heard about the Catonsville Nine. He was 18 months old in May 1968, when nine people - including two brothers, both well-known activists and Catholic priests, and a former nun - removed hundreds of files from the local draft office and burned them with homemade napalm.
• Growing a green lawn means finding grasses that need less water July 27, 2012 You have to give Doug Soldat credit. He picked the right year to begin a study on the drought tolerance of Wisconsin turfgrasses.