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• UW-Madison alumni ‘fired up’ about latest innovation May 8, 2008 After selling the first company he founded for more than $1 million, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering alum Chad Sorenson wasn't sure what to do next.
• Virus mimics human protein to hijack cell division machinery May 8, 2008 Viruses are masters of deception, duping their host's cells into helping them grow and spread. A new study has found that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery, disrupting a cell's primary anti-cancer mechanism.
• Biocore program turns 40 May 7, 2008 An innovative undergraduate biology program on campus is celebrating its 40th birthday.
• Symposium marks a decade of big strides in teaching, learning at UW-Madison May 7, 2008 If a UW-Madison graduate were to return to campus today after a ten-year absence, the first impression would be striking: A building boom has altered the landscape with high-tech new buildings and additions, while another wave of construction busily charges ahead. Not as obvious to the visitor, however, would be the radical changes taking place within those walls.
• Engineering senior turns her hobby into cash May 6, 2008 It started off pretty simply. Danielle McIntosh, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior graduating in biological systems engineering, was intrigued by a friend who brought his hula hoop over to her apartment. She and her roommates would try out practicing with the hoop, and she found herself thinking about it even when her friend wasn’t around.
• Students embrace Arabic in new International Learning Community May 1, 2008 Arabic script runs along the dormitory hall of the third floor in Adams Hall. To an outsider it looks like an intricate design flowing among the plaster, but to the residents it provides direction and introductions to their fellow floormates.
• ‘Life During Wartime’ will build innovative curriculum around American war history April 30, 2008 A new Wisconsin project funded by the U.S. Department of Education will feature an unprecedented partnership among public school teachers, university and technical college faculty, and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum to invigorate the teaching of American history.
• Wisconsin biomedical engineering students design meaningful medical solutions April 30, 2008 When University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Claire Flanagan graduates in May 2009 with bachelor's degrees in biomedical engineering (BME) and biochemistry, she might display her diploma next to an equally prestigious document: a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
• UW-Madison students again rise to the entrepreneurial challenge April 29, 2008 For the second straight year, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison flexed their entrepreneurial muscle as they turned surplus materials into new creations.
• With cell as muse, art fuels scientist’s quest April 28, 2008 For Ahna Skop, the tipping point to a career in science was a dance and a food fight.
• Facility gives geology department new dimension April 28, 2008 A geoscience visualization lab that opened last week in Weeks Hall will add a new dimension to geology research and education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Everyone’s invited to attend UW during Day on Campus April 28, 2008 It's a dream of many to learn on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) again this spring offers the opportunity to turn those dreams into reality for those who lived the dream years ago, or for anyone wants a campus experience.
• Veggies in the sky: Grocery business takes top honors in Burrill contest April 24, 2008 In an era of globe-trotting food, consumers sometimes need an atlas to navigate the produce aisle. But two University of Wisconsin-Madison students have an intriguing idea for how to get vegetables on grocery shelves without the jet lag. Their solution? Look up.
• UW to launch radio, Web programs on Islam and Muslims in the world April 23, 2008 Nine area and international studies programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received a grant from the national Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to create an interactive program that will support public dissemination of scholarship on the topic of Islam.
• Professor blends ecology, history April 21, 2008 As a University of Washington graduate student in the late 1980s, Nancy Langston traveled to a national park in Zimbabwe to study an endangered bird. She came back with a resolve to know more about people.
• Engineering class infuses green ideas into local building projects April 21, 2008 Earth Day is celebrated once a year, but University of Wisconsin-Madison civil and environmental engineering students are working to create plans that offer sustainable benefits for years to come.
• Visual Culture Center reaches across academic fields April 16, 2008 Tucked away on the fifth floor of Memorial Library in a monastic faculty study room are the digs for the recently created Visual Culture Center. The limited square footage and unglamorous address, though, haven’t prevented center leadership, in just a few years, from developing and presenting a robust program of courses, research initiatives, presentations, lectures and conferences in a field of study that is the new kid on the academic block.
• MSNBC science editor is visiting writer April 15, 2008 Alan Boyle, science editor for MSNBC on the Internet, has been named the University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Writer in Residence for this spring.
• Stanley, students sing praises of reading April 10, 2008 When Leotha Stanley was 13 years old, he played the piano at the funeral home on North Avenue in Milwaukee for some extra money.
• Annual symposium celebrates undergraduate achievement April 9, 2008 While much of the diligent work of students takes place behind the scenes, the tenth annual Undergraduate Symposium will be an opportunity for achievement to publicly shine for more than 300 students.

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