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• Neuro reunion shows off progress Aug. 28, 2012 They were brought together by some of the worst moments of their lives – but you’d never know, if you witnessed the hugs and snapshots and, yes, laughter, at the first-ever reunion of patients from UW Hospital’s Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit.
• 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.
• Visual art: Exhibit explores the science behind the beauty Aug. 27, 2012 "About Seeing," an innovative exhibit focusing on the interaction between vision science and visual art, opens Aug. 31 at the James Watrous Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison.
• 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.
• 'Hacking' to bridge a divide Aug. 23, 2012 On a wall in a darkened room, a single word flashed: divide.
• 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.
• Industrial and systems engineering professor Ben-Tzion “Bentzi” Karsh dies Aug. 21, 2012 Ben-Tzion “Bentzi” Karsh, a professor of industrial and systems engineering who also earned three degrees from UW-Madison, died Aug. 18 after an 18-month battle with cancer.
• Engineering moving classroom into digital age Aug. 16, 2012 The Internet has profoundly affected the lives of those born into an information-saturated world, the “digital natives.” It has shaped nearly all of their expectations of the world, including what they expect from an institution of higher learning.
• 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.
• AhR Pharma and WARF sign exclusive license for cancer-fighting hormone Aug. 13, 2012 AhR Pharmaceuticals Inc. and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) have signed an exclusive license agreement for ITE, a natural hormone discovered by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers with properties helpful in treating cancer, obesity and immune system disorders.
• Wisconsin Science Festival seeks partners to expand celebration statewide Sept. 27-30 Aug. 10, 2012 After a rousing debut last fall in Madison, the Wisconsin Science Festival is encouraging supporters of learning and science from around the state to help expand the festival during its second year by staging local events this Sept. 27-30.
• 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.
• Science and law connect in campus collaboration July 25, 2012 Have you ever wondered how scientists decide which problems to work on or what inventions to develop?
• Oral drops for dog allergies pass another hurdle July 24, 2012 A study reported today at the World Congress of Veterinary Dermatology in Vancouver, British Columbia, shows that placing allergy drops under a dog's tongue can be as effective as allergy injections for controlling skin allergies.