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• Does history repeat? Using the past to improve ecological forecasting Feb. 20, 2012 To better predict the future, Jack Williams is looking to the past.
• Proposed hunt poorly designed, says UW wolf expert Feb. 20, 2012
• Mother of pearl tells a tale of ocean temperature, depth Feb. 16, 2012 Nacre -- or mother of pearl, scientists and artisans know, is one of nature's amazing utilitarian materials.
• Howard Zimmerman, pioneer in organic chemistry, dies at 85 Feb. 16, 2012 Howard Zimmerman, a professor of chemistry from 1960 until his retirement in 2010, died on Saturday, Feb. 11 as a result of a fall.
• UW–Madison names finalists for Nelson Institute director Feb. 14, 2012 UW-Madison has named three finalists for the director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
• Physics Department open house welcomes community Feb. 8, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Physics will throw open its doors from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18, for its fifth annual Physics Fair.
• Hunting could hurt genetic diversity of sandhill cranes, UW research suggests Feb. 8, 2012 As Wisconsin lawmakers debate whether to establish a hunting season for sandhill cranes, they may want to consider more than just the sheer number of birds, suggests a University of Wisconsin-Madison specialist in avian genetics.
• Study shows calories drive earlier puberty Feb. 8, 2012 Environmental pollutants, eating habits, lack of exercise and genetic traits have all been raised as possible causes of earlier puberty onset in girls in recent years. Now we may now know why: It's the calories, as reported by Ei Terasawa, Joe Kurian, Ricki Colman and colleagues at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
• Evolution’s oddities are focus of Darwin Day Feb. 7, 2012 The annual celebration of Charles Darwin’s birthday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will highlight the evolutionary significance of strange life forms, including the octopus and enormous flowers.
• Neurons from stem cells could replace mice in botulinum test Feb. 3, 2012 Using lab-grown human neurons, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an effective assay for detecting botulinum neurotoxin, the agent widely used to cosmetically smooth the wrinkles of age and, increasingly, for an array of medical disorders ranging from muscle spasticity to loss of bladder control.
• How does the compassionate brain, measured in the lab, predict what occurs in real life? Feb. 1, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are launching a new series of studies to understand how laboratory measures of virtuous qualities such as compassion relate to their behavior in the real world.
• Nature: Kawaoka authors commentary on flu research Jan. 25, 2012 The author of an upcoming Nature paper about H5N1 argues in a Nature Comment article today that research into deadly pathogenic viruses must continue if pandemics are to be prevented.
• Satellite renamed to honor UW-Madison space pioneer Jan. 25, 2012 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have renamed their newest Earth-observing satellite after Verner Suomi, a longtime UW-Madison professor who often is called the father of satellite meteorology.
• Suomi remembered for problem-solving ability, drive Jan. 25, 2012 Verner Suomi’s career — even his life — may not have been as long and illustrious had he not been an inveterate problem solver.
• Contest seeks amazing science images Jan. 24, 2012 Imaging has brought a revolution to science.
• Researchers outline food security, climate change road map Jan. 20, 2012 While last month's meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture's climate footprint, a group of international agriculture experts urges scientists to lay the groundwork for more decisive action on global food security in environmental negotiations in 2012.
• New approach to combat intractable bacterial infections Jan. 20, 2012 Bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz specializes in developing antimicrobial technologies that one day may help replace antibiotics—and save lives—as the power of our antibiotics arsenal wanes.
• UW-Madison biochemist to serve on president’s National Medal of Science committee Jan. 12, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Judith Kimble has been selected to serve on President Obama's Committee on the National Medal of Science.
• UW geneticist James Crow passes away Jan. 6, 2012 The UW-Madison community is mourning the loss of a legend: James F. Crow, professor emeritus of genetics, who passed away peacefully at his home on Jan. 4, two weeks shy of his 96th birthday.
• Recent sightings: Cosmic dynamo installation Jan. 4, 2012