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- Video project offers leadership perspectives on 2009 reaccreditation Oct. 1, 2008 A six-part weekly video report that showcases some of the major ideas emerging from the UW-Madison 2009 Reaccreditation Project debuts today (Oct. 1) on the Wisconsin Week Wire.
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Video: 25th Annual Dog Jog
Sept. 17, 2008
View video from the 25th Annual Dog Jog, a School of Veterinary Medicine event that raised more than $29,000 for homeless animals.
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Studies of cell traits nets big award for UW-Madison researcher
June 24, 2008
UW-Madison biochemist Doug Weibel has received a prestigious Searle Scholar Award.
- Spring commencement in review: Slide show and video May 19, 2008
- Geology professor drills into earth-shaking questions Jan. 30, 2008 Two months aboard an ocean-going ship might sound like a luxurious vacation. With 16-hour workdays amid the clamorous hubbub of an industrial drilling rig, however, Harold Tobin’s recent voyage was far from relaxing. Tobin, an associate professor in the geology department, sailed last fall into the western Pacific in a quest to peer into the heart of one of the most active earthquake zones on the planet.
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Negative campaign ads contribute to a healthy democracy, political scientist argues
Jan. 14, 2008
Political attack ads, widely demonized by pundits and politicians, are instead a kind of multi-vitamin for the democratic process, sparking voters' interest and participation, according to a new book co-authored by University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Kenneth Goldstein.
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What lies beneath: Growth of root cells remarkably dynamic, study finds
Dec. 3, 2007
A new UW-Madison study, publishing online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that certain plant cells pulse as they grow.
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Deep-sea drilling expedition off Japan seeks earthquake, tsunami causes
Nov. 12, 2007
Harold Tobin is interested in deep scientific questions, whose answers lie thousands of meters underwater. The UW-Madison geologist studies deep oceanic earthquake faults, which extend miles into the Earth’s crust below the seafloor, to learn what causes earthquakes and tsunamis.
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New classes explore environmental film’s mobilizing power
Oct. 31, 2007
Gregg Mitman believes in the power of a well-told story. This semester the professor of history of science is teaching two new courses on the environment from a cinematic perspective: a class on environmental film in history and a hands-on production class in documentary storytelling.
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Professor’s film on Native American soldiers to air on PBS
Oct. 18, 2007
Patty Loew, a veteran television journalist and an associate professor of life sciences communication, has long wondered what motivated Native American veterans — including her grandfather — to fight for a country that considered them outsiders. Now, she has produced “Way of the Warrior,” a one-hour documentary that will air nationally on the PBS network in November, to explore these motivations.
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Spoken word scholars aim to transform campus
Sept. 30, 2007
They express themselves and how they feel about the world around them through a powerful mechanism: words. And now the students who have embraced urban art, including “spoken word,” are coming together on campus, playing a leadership role in a national movement and sharing their craft with others.
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Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
Aug. 14, 2007
A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses - including those that cause important human diseases such as AIDS, SARS and hepatitis C - have features in common that could eventually make them vulnerable to broad-spectrum antiviral agents.
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Freshman engineers seize the wind…and a new opportunity
May 29, 2007
Inspired to reinvigorate his teaching after a yearlong sabbatical, electrical and computer engineering professor Giri Venkataramanan decided to try an experiment. During spring semester 2007, he challenged the freshman in his introductory engineering class to build a functioning wind turbine from scratch.