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• Stem cells hint at potential treatment for Huntington's disease March 15, 2012 Huntington's disease, the debilitating congenital neurological disorder that progressively robs patients of muscle coordination and cognitive ability, is a condition without effective treatment, a slow death sentence.
• UW-Madison invention basis for top honor in clean-energy competition March 15, 2012 A new company built to commercialize a green-energy discovery at University of Wisconsin-Madison earned the top honor - and a check for $100,000 - at this month's Chicago Clean Energy Challenge.
• Nobel laureate, White House advisor to speak about science education March 14, 2012 Carl Wieman, associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and a Nobel laureate in physics, will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, March 20 to talk about teaching and learning in science and engineering.
• Scientists produce eye structures from human blood-derived stem cells March 13, 2012 For the first time, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made early retina structures containing proliferating neuroretinal progenitor cells using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells derived from human blood.
• Unique art and science project displayed at National Science Foundation March 13, 2012 A series of paintings, quilts and other artworks developed through a collaboration between artists and ecologists in Wisconsin is on display at the headquarters of the National Science Foundation in Virginia.
• Study pinpoints effects of different doses of an ADHD drug; finds higher doses may harm learning March 8, 2012 New research with monkeys sheds light on how the drug methylphenidate may affect learning and memory in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• UW law professor offers look at FDA from the inside out March 8, 2012 UW Law Professor R. Alta Charo was senior policy adviser to the commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration from August 2009 until June 2011. Now back on campus, Charo spoke reflects on her time with the FDA.
• Office of Sustainability launches at UW-Madison March 7, 2012 The UW-Madison Office of Sustainability, which grew out of the campuswide Sustainability Initiative, will officially launch on Friday, March 9, with an event at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
• Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery named 2012 Laboratory of the Year March 5, 2012 The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the innovative 330,000-sqaure-foot public-private facility that opened just more than a year ago on the UW–Madison campus, has been named the 2012 Laboratory of the Year.
• In new book, leading neuroscientist describes your brain on emotion March 5, 2012 Building on more than 30 years of cutting-edge brain research, a new book by UW–Madison psychology and psychiatry professor Richard J. Davidson offers an inside look into how emotions are coded in our brains and our power to control them.
• Nelson Institute awarded UW-Madison’s first S-STEM grant from NSF March 2, 2012 The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies has been awarded UW-Madison's first-ever National Science Foundation S-STEM grant for undergraduate scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
• Communicating danger across 10,000 years March 1, 2012 Giant symbols carved into canyon walls might tell the story of a long-ago hunt, a creation myth, or a genocide - but because the cultures who created rock art have vanished, there is no way of discerning their exact meaning.
• Daya Bay antineutrino detectors exceed performance goals Feb. 29, 2012 After just three months of operation, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has far surpassed expectations, recording tens of thousands of particle interactions and paving the way to a better understanding of neutrinos and why the universe is built of matter rather than antimatter.
• See restored Curry murals at Wednesday Night @ the Lab Feb. 28, 2012 A remarkable University of Wisconsin-Madison research triumph and artful renderings depicting the importance of biochemistry are the subject of a rare occurrence of the popular Wednesday Night @ the Lab series.
• Exploring interfaces between science, humanities Feb. 23, 2012 The semester-long, $2,500 Emerging Interfaces Awards were created as a way to explore the different ways thinkers in the humanities and sciences approach discovery.
• Surprising diversity at a synapse hints at complex diversity of neural circuitry Feb. 22, 2012 A new study reveals a dazzling degree of biological diversity in an unexpected place - a single neural connection in the body wall of flies.
• Two UW-Madison researchers awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships Feb. 22, 2012 Two members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are among 126 scientists from around the country who have been awarded prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.
• Early spring: Good for us, mixed bag for insects, plants Feb. 21, 2012 Madison’s warm weather may have made the outdoors more comfortable for people, but does it spell trouble for overwintering plants and bugs?
• Journal boycott gaining steam at UW-Madison Feb. 21, 2012 They are mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. That describes an emerging response from more than 6,000 scientists to Elsevier, publisher of more than 2,500 scientific journals, including Cell and The Lancet.
• Recent sightings: Wonders of Physics Feb. 20, 2012