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• Play to examine woman's life in the male world of MIT math Sept. 5, 2012 Trust a good play to raise issues and spark debate.
• Research on hive microbes may lead to better understanding of honeybee disease Sept. 4, 2012 If you spot a honeybee in the UW-Madison's Allen Centennial Gardens and are wondering where it came from, look up.
• Reduced brain connections seen in people with generalized anxiety disorder Sept. 3, 2012 A new University of Wisconsin-Madison imaging study shows the brains of people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have weaker connections between a brain structure that controls emotional response and the amygdala, which suggests the brain's "panic button" may stay on due to lack of regulation.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.