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• UW emeritus professor named acting director of NSF May 28, 2010 Cora Marrett, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named acting director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Marrett assumes her new duties June 1.
• Federal investment in basic research yields outsized dividends May 13, 2010 Investment in basic scientific research may be one of the best ways to foster long-term economic growth locally and nationally, according to a report released this week by The Science Coalition.
• It's a small world (for small people) after all May 10, 2010 Lab-coated and goggled, Troy Dassler's 15 third graders are itching to power up their digital optical microscopes.
• In Europe, bison find plenty of room to roam May 5, 2010 The European bison, a close relative of the American bison, has been on a slow road to recovery for almost a century. Europe's largest grazing animal once dwelled from central Russia to Spain, but by the beginning of the 20th century, habitat loss and hunting had reduced them to 54 animals.
• Madison researchers field volcanic ash warning system May 3, 2010 From a workstation in Madison, Mike Pavolonis hopes to lay eyes - satellite eyes, that is - on every natural chimney around the globe.
• Crystal defect shown to be key to making hollow nanotubes April 22, 2010 Scientists have no problem making a menagerie of nanometer-sized objects - wires, tubes, belts, and even tree-like structures. What they sometimes have been unable to do is explain precisely how those objects form in the vapor and liquid cauldrons in which they are made.
• Life history database aids wild primate studies April 22, 2010 Karen Strier can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that much of her life's work is now safe.
• Wisconsin meteorite shards on display at UW Geology Museum April 19, 2010 At least five pieces of the meteorite that fell in southwestern Wisconsin last week will be on display at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum for public viewing Tuesday, April 20 through this weekend.
• Earth Day events honor birth of environmentalism April 19, 2010 For some of us it seems like just yesterday, but Earth Day turns 40 this year. The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970. Some 20 million people participated in environmental teach-ins across the United States. The event’s founder, U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, took a page from the antiwar movement to educate people about the environment and to put the cause on the national agenda.
• Meteor fragment lands in UW-Madison geoscience department April 16, 2010 Researchers in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geoscience had the opportunity Friday morning to analyze a rock fragment they believe is from the meteor that blazed through the skies over parts of Wisconsin and Iowa Wednesday night.
• Recent sightings: Nighttime fireball April 15, 2010
• Controls for animals’ color designs revealed April 7, 2010 The vivid colors and designs animals use to interact with their environments have awed and inspired since before people learned to draw on the cave wall.
• UW-Madison student wins $250,000 fellowship April 5, 2010 Daniel Lecoanet, who will graduate with comprehensive honors from University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring with a double major in math and physics, has won a five-year, no-strings-attached fellowship to pursue graduate studies.
• From spinning atoms to blazing stars, Science Expeditions covers all bases April 1, 2010 If there is any way to take in the full depth and breadth of the science being practiced and developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the eighth annual Science Expeditions celebration is the way to do it.
• On slippery science subjects, Internet news delivers March 31, 2010 Internet-based science news draws a more demographically diverse, learned and focused audience than print or television news, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison communication researchers.
• Particle accelerator ready to attempt record-breaking collisions March 29, 2010 Energy is building at the Large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, Switzerland, in more ways than one.
• Molecular biologist receives Stephen Jay Gould Prize March 24, 2010 Sean Carroll, a University of Wisconsin-Madison molecular biologist and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Stephen Jay Gould Prize, an award given in recognition of exemplary efforts to advance public understanding of evolutionary science.
• Study explores link between sunlight, multiple sclerosis March 22, 2010 For more than 30 years, scientists have known that multiple sclerosis (MS) is much more common in higher latitudes than in the tropics. Because sunlight is more abundant near the equator, many researchers have wondered if the high levels of vitamin D engendered by sunlight could explain this unusual pattern of prevalence.
• Twenty-year study yields precise model of tectonic-plate movements March 22, 2010 A new model of the Earth, 20 years in the making, describes a dynamic three-dimensional puzzle of planetary proportions.
• UW researchers develop new model for macular degeneration March 12, 2010 Exposing albino rats to moderately intense light has produced a new animal model for the most common cause of severe vision loss in humans.